David Kimbrough Jr Merges Folk Traditions at the Hill Country Picnic 2013

Fayetteville, Arkansas-based musician David Kimbrough Jr is one of the sons of the late Hill Country blues legend Junior Kimbrough. Not surprisingly, he has continued to play in the Hill Country tradition which his father helped to popularize around the world, but what is surprising is his experiments with the dulcimer, an instrument usually associated with Anglo-American folk music in the Appalachian region or the Ozarks. Friday night at the picnic, he performed several compositions as a duo with his dulcimer and a drummer, and he makes the dulcimer’s unique sound work within the scales of his blues tradition. In addition, he played several tunes with his larger band.