11 Facts About Junior Kimbrough

David "Junior" Kimbrough was an American blues musician.

Junior Kimbrough was apparently influenced by the guitarists Mississippi Fred McDowell and Eli Green.

Junior Kimbrough's music is characterized by the tricky syncopation between his droning bass strings and his midrange melodies.

Junior Kimbrough's debut release was a cover version of Lowell Fulson's "Tramp" issued as a single on the independent label Philwood in 1967.

Junior Kimbrough recorded little in the 1970s, contributing an early version of "Meet Me in the City" to a European blues anthology.

Junior Kimbrough received notice after live footage of him playing "All Night Long" in one of his juke joints appeared in the film documentary Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads, directed by Robert Mugge and narrated by Robert Palmer.

Junior Kimbrough came to national attention in 1992 with his debut album, All Night Long.

Junior Kimbrough died of a heart attack following a stroke in 1998 in Holly Springs, at the age of 67.

Junior Kimbrough is buried outside his family's church, the Kimbrough Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, near Holly Springs.

The rockabilly musician Charlie Feathers, a friend of Junior Kimbrough's, called him "the beginning and end of all music"; this tribute is written on Junior Kimbrough's tombstone.

Richard Johnston, a Kimbrough protege, keeps this musical tradition alive with one of Junior's sons, performing live on Beale Street, in Memphis.