Browsing: Junior Kimbrough

“Tenants who needed to make rent would throw a party where they lived, pushing all the furniture back to allow more room for dancing…”

This week is packed full of blues happenings, from birthdays to a handful of New Orleans Blues milestones to Chicago and Hill Country blues luminaries!

A statue for a bluesman, Another’s release from one of Louisiana’s most notorious prisons, the birth of blues pioneers and icons, and the final appearance of a wildly influential blueswoman…

Nobody is allowed to decry the decline of Hill Country Blues while the North Mississippi Allstars are making music. Nobody.

We spoke with Burnside about his many talents,his budding new business, playing with Samuel L. Jackson, and, of course, coming up learning the blues with one of the greatest bluesmen in the world; his grandfather.