Junior Kimbrough - You Better Run: The Essential Junior Kimbrough
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Free Music Review: Boogie down dirty blues
Hit: 4 Stars
Damn if the cover doesn't just sound like the album. Every tune is dirty, follows old school blues stylings- few chord changes, non-song structure, good beat to move to. Let it play from track 1 while drinking, you'll know what I mean. Free Music Review: Essential Down-Home Blues
Hit: 5 Stars
"You Better Run - The Essential Junior Kimbrough" serves as a fascinating collection of tunes from one of the most hypnotically, bare-bones musicians on the twentieth century.
Junior Kimbrough was a Mississippi Delta bluesman to the core, and these tunes, all recorded live, reveal a classic musician who perfomed at his own juke joint in the Mississippi woods, and seemed to be playing for himself as much, if not more, than for others.
"All Night Long," "Meet Me In The City," "Done Got Old," "You Better Run," and the outstanding "Most Things Haven't Worked Out" display Kimbrough rough-hewd vocals and mezmerizing guitar playing.
This collection shows that there will always be musicians who live and play on their own terms. Junior Kimbrough was definitely one of the best.
Free Music Review: Essential Blues
Hit: 5 Stars
You thought Robert Johnson's Hellhound On My Trail was spooky? You haven't heard anything until you've heard Junior Kimbrough's You Better Run. How this brand of blues was overlooked for so many years is inexplicable, yet understandable as the Mississippi delta and Chicago styles of blues dominates what record labels choose to release. But up in the hill country of north Mississippi a different style of blues developed. You can hear echoes of it in Mississippi Fred McDowell and John Lee Hooker. Thank God that Fat Possum Records brought bluesmen like Kimbrough, RL Burnside, and T-Model Ford into the studio and preserved this music for future generations. Start here, then search Amazon for "Fat Possum." You will never listen to blues the same way again.Free Music Review: Great Collection but Not All Inclusive
Hit: 5 Stars
I am not one to write a review when so many people have already said so much (and they are all spot on) but there was something I needed to add here. This was the first Junior Kimbrough album I bought and it blew me away. I love Junior Kimbrough's brand of punk blues. Enjoying this collection prompted me to pick up all his other works (6 CDs in all) and they were all worth it. What I'm getting to, in a roundabout way, is that not all Junior's albums are represented on this collection. His two earliest Do the Rump and All Night Long seem to be left off of this collection, or at least the versions of songs from those albums. It is worth your money to buy this as a starter but I deplore you not to stop there pick up Junior's other works- he really deserves the spotlight which he has never gotten. Free Music Review: A True Icon of Blues
Hit: 5 Stars
Everything that the above reviewers stated I thank them for. What you hear is respect for the music of a stand up man that worked and had his own, very unique way of expressing himself. A gem, a jewel; Like all the Masters, his music has the uniqueness that is David Junior Kimbrough.
I grew up in Houston listening to Sam Hopkins on records and after I got older, in person. If one could have managed to put aside the egos that most hard working, hard playing real blues players need[ed] to survive, I can only imagine what that collaboration might have sounded like. Junior taken Lightin' into the mystical, hypnotic place, and Sam workin' fearlessly, fiercely, and deep behind Junior in a whole new scene as only he could have done. Where ever they are, I know they are friends; sitting on a porch somewhere; maybe a little jug on the floor between them, and keepin' the good lord slappin' his hand on his knee and shufflin' his feet to the beat whenever he/she/they is[are] in the neighborhood...