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By: Junior Kimbrough

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1   Release Me Buy Buy
2   All Night Long Buy Buy
3   Meet Me in the City Buy Buy
4   You Better Run Buy Buy
5   Done Got Old Buy Buy
6   Sad Days Lonely Nights Buy  
7   Old Black Mattie Buy Buy
8   Most Things Haven't Worked Out Buy Buy
9   I'm Leaving Buy Buy
10   Keep On Braggin' Buy Buy
11   Tramp Buy Buy

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A career spanning collection of tracks from one of the most influential & original blues musicians in the past fifty years, Junior Kimbrough, hailed by such folks as Bono & Iggy Pop as a primal force in American music, Junior never reached the mass audience that he deserved while alive, but his music endures & continues to be discovered by music fans from all walks of life. 12 awesome tracks.

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When Junior Kimbrough died in January 1998, part of the spirit of Mississippi hill-country blues went with him. He was a proud musician, aware of his African roots and his artistic singularity--perhaps the last unique voice in the genre. The sound of his bawling singing and unpredictable, serpentine guitar were as eerie as a warm wind humming through a field of tombstones, as hypnotic as the ancient village drum music it was based on, thanks to his complete command of his rhythm sections. This collection serves full notice of Kimbrough''s authenticity, from his first recording, an impromptu-sounding "Release Me" played with rockabilly cult figure Charlie Feathers, through his last ''90s albums for Fat Possum. It''s in the latter cases that Kimbrough paints a colorful portrait of his hardscrabble life just above the Delta. Rape is wrongly equated with love (in the brutal-but-fascinating title track), and sexual prowess ("All Night Long") is the only true coin of manhood. Finally, "Done Got Old" serves as the best epitaph for this blues hell-raiser, whose decades of bootlegging, boozing, and womanizing seemed to catch up with him in his final years. Nonetheless, that song and the 11 others prove that no matter how tired and worn he became, Kimbrough''s crackling music never lost its edge or its feeling of danger and menace. --Ted Drozdowski

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