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
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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 to buy music at all, so the emergence of End of All...
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David Kimbrough, Kenny Kimbrough and Robert Kimbrough Live at the @_CoolSpot_...
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 with his drummer, but tonight, amongst his friends and...
View ArticleThe Kimbroughs-Live at the Cool Spot in Holly Springs MS 10/11/13 @_CoolSpot_
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...
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Robert Kimbrough Performing at the Cat Head Stage at Clarksdale’s...
Robert Kimbrough is one of the many sons of the late legendary bluesman Junior Kimbrough, and a frequent performer at the Juke Joint Fest each year in Clarksdale. This year, he performed on the Cat...
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David Kimbrough, Little Joe Ayers and Robert Kimbrough Live at The New...
For many years, Hill Country bluesman Junior Kimbrough had a juke joint in rural Marshall County that was a destination for those in the know. People from all over the world made their way to the...
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Hill Country Blues With The Duwayne Burnside Band at Lafayette’s Music Room...
Considering the close distance between Holly Springs, Mississippi and Memphis, it is strange that blues legend Duwayne Burnside doesn’t appear more often in Memphis. In fact, I only recall seeing him...
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The Cassie Bonner Band on the Square in Holly Springs
Although the Delta of Mississippi is known as “The Land Where Blues Began”, the area to the east known as the Hill Country produced a unique style of blues that has become famous around the world....
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The Ruins of Hudsonville
On my way to Holly Springs, Mississippi for a blues event, I decided to travel a slightly different way in order to check out the town of Hudsonville on Highway 7, intriguing to me as it was the place...
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Preserving the Hill Country Blues Tradition: Duwayne Burnside Live in Holly...
Think of Mississippi Blues and you are likely to think of the Delta. The long highways and crossroads, the endless flat land, broken only by the occasional bayou, small towns, juke joints and Robert...
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Celebrating Hill Country Blues at Foxfire Ranch
Fans of the unique Mississippi style of blues known as Hill Country blues are of course very familiar with Marshall County, as it was the home of both Junior Kimbrough and R. L. Burnside, arguably the...
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Juke Joint Fest: Robert Kimbrough Sr.
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Cadillac Funk and Cedric Burnside At The Levitt AMP Summer Music Series in...
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Celebrating the Legacy of Junior Kimbrough in Holly Springs
Marshall County, Mississippi is recognized as the home of the Hill Country blues, and the home of its two greatest exponents, Junior Kimbrough and R. L. Burnside. So it was entirely fitting that this...
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Robert Kimbrough’s Blues Yard Parties in Benton County
Benton County, Mississippi is due east of Marshall County, and was once a part of it, having been carved out of it and Tippah County by the state legislature during Reconstruction. Demographically...
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Eric Deaton Trio & Garry Burnside Live at Proud Larry’s
Although Proud Larry’s is first and foremost a rock club, Oxford, Mississippi is deep in the Mississippi Hill Country, and has been the scene of many a classic blues performance. Nearly all the greats...
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The Kimbrough Blues Legacy Lives On At Rooster’s Blues House in Oxford
Robert Kimbrough Sr. calls his style of music “cotton patch blues”, but he is the son of one of the biggest legends of what blues scholars often call Hill Country blues, Junior Kimbrough. The Hill...
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Second Annual Kimbrough Cotton Patch Blues Festival in Holly Springs
This is the second year of the Kimbrough Cotton Patch Blues Festival, which celebrates the legacy of Junior Kimbrough and his sons David, Robert and Kinney, and this year’s festival, held on Mothers’...
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