Junior Kimbrough News

Blues guitarist and songwriter Louisiana Red has been around for a long time, moving between acoustic and electric settings for his emotional and often autobiographical songs.

The North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic celebrates its fourth year with a lineup that celebrates the legacy of local blues legends including R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough and Othar Turner.

Guitarist and singer Junior Kimbrough was one of the deepest of the deep bluesmen, like his colleague R.L. Burnside he came from the hill country of Mississippi.

Malcolm and Cedric. Photo by Jerry Colburn. FRIDAY 6/5 On the strength of a handful of performances at White Water in the last year or so, Cedric Burnside and Lightnin' Malcolm have built a well-deserved reputation as THE blues act to catch in Central Arkansas.

The comparisons with The White Stripes are inevitable and unfortunate. The Black Keys is a blues-rock duo from Ohio, just south of White Stripes country.

Former schoolmates Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney formed Black Keys in 2001. The duo plays the Three Rivers Arts Festival tomorrow night at 8. When the Black Keys plays the Three Rivers Arts Festival at 8 p.m. Friday, drummer Patrick Carney will be within spitting distance of his old school.

Nick Hamstra, better known as Hambone, is 26 going on the Mississippi Delta, a suburban guy from Indianapolis who somehow manages to channel a bluesman from Clarksdale.

The Ten Foot Polecats don't just play the blues; the band performs "Electric Gut Bucket Whisky Swilling Boogie," its take on the North Mississippi Hill Country- and Mississippi Delta-styles of music pioneered by Mississippi Fred McDowell, Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside and others.

Slide guitar began with the "diddley bow," or a wire nailed to a wall and raked with a blade, piece of glass or maybe a stone, which gave rise to a chilling and elastic cry, the sound of pain and pleasure fused together.

Nothing Black Keys singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach does is obvious. He's a 29-year-old dude from the suburbs of Ohio who, with drummer Patrick Carney, cut his teeth playing ancient hill-country blues in the vein ...

Although The Black Keys' frontman doesn't stray far from his safety zone in the world of blues rock, he finally scraps the minimalism and explores the potential of a full arrangement on the first LP under his ...

Luther Dickinson, left, Chris Chew and Cody Dickinson - join the Hill Country Revue for a show at 9 p.m. Sunday, Jan.

The House of Blues was an important destination for me last spring when I visited New Orleans.

Under the tutelage of grandfather R.L. Burnside and fellow North Mississippi players Otha Turner and Junior Kimbrough, Cedric Burnside learned at a young age that you "Don't Just Sing About the Blues." You ...

The iPod shuffle is the greatest invention ever -- especially for bringing oldies but goodies back up from the depths of your music collection.

In the early 1990s, North Mississippi Hill Country blues reached a worldwide audience via the Fat Possum CDs of R.L Burnside and Junior Kimbrough.