Last Friday night, as David Kimbrough Jr struck up the first few notes of his first tune at The Cool Spot in Holly Springs, I realized something momentous was happening that ought to be preserved for the future, so I recorded the entire show with a recording app in my iPhone. Of course the recordings were made under less than optimum conditions, but I have used the editing software in Audacity to clean the tracks up as best I can. Enjoy this authentic Hill Country blues played by three of Junior Kimbrough’s sons, David, Robert and Kenny. David’s album Shell-Shocked can be purchased on iTunes here. Kenny also recorded an album under the name Kent Kimbrough on Hill Country Records, and that can also be purchased on iTunes here.
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David Kimbrough, Kenny Kimbrough and Robert Kimbrough Live at the @_CoolSpot_ in Holly Springs MS
Only once before had I heard David Kimbrough Jr, at this year’s North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, and at that event, he played the dulcimer …
Oxford’s End of All Music (@endofallmusic) Records: A Vinyl Paradise
Oxford, Mississippi has had several record stores over the years, but more recently it has suffered through a “dark ages” where there was no place …
Robert Kimbrough-Battlefield-Live at Cat Head @VisitClarksdale #jukejointfest
Robert Kimbrough performing the title track of his new EP “Battlefield” at Cat Head Delta Blues during Juke Joint Fest 2013 in Clarksdale
Robert Kimbrough & The Blues Connection-Can I Smell You-Live at Cat Head @VisitClarksdale #jukejointfest
Robert Kimbrough (son of legendary bluesman Junior Kimbrough) performs his song “Can I Smell You” from his new EP “Battlefield” at Cat Head in Clarksdale …
Robert Kimbrough and the Blues Connection Live at Cat Head #jukejointfest @VisitClarksdale
The legendary Junior Kimbrough’s son Robert fronts a Hill Country blues band called the Blues Connection, and they went up on the stage in front …
Celebrating 20 Years of @proudlarrys With The North Mississippi Allstars featuring @lightningmalcolm
It was a cold and wet night in Oxford, but it was warm and joyful inside Proud Larrys as the venerable Oxford bar and music …
End of All Music is a cool, hip record store on North Lamar Boulevard in Oxford, Mississippi which opened in March. Its rather unusual name is actually taken from rockabilly legend Charlie Feathers’ quote about his friend and mentor Junior Kimbrough, whom Feathers said was “the beginning and end of all music.” Both Feathers and Kimbrough were from Marshall County, just north of Oxford, and the store meets a real need in a community as hip and arty as Oxford. As one might expect, there is plenty of blues, and all of the cool reissues from labels like Numero Group, Big Legal Mess, Fat Possum, Thompkins Square and Mississippi Records, as well as a fair selection of indie rock on CD. But the big prize at End of All Music is vinyl, both new and used. People wanting to make a pilgrimage there from Memphis or elsewhere (for the selection really is better than some big-city stores), should be aware that End of All Music is closed on Sundays and Mondays, and is open the rest of the week from 10AM to 6 PM. Follow them on Twitter @endofallmusic. Like them on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-End-of-All-Music/237258039697978. Or you can visit their website at http://theendofallmusic.com/. Enjoy!