Sad Days Lonely Nights

Junior Kimbrough | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 24, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fat Possum Records
• ASIN: B0000061VG
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #51,070 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Genre: Blues Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 24-FEB-1998

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Trance-Boogie Transcendence, October 11, 2001

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P. Freeman "jazzhermit" (Elizabeth, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sad Days Lonely Nights (Audio CD)

I saw Junior open for Iggy Pop in about 1996. He sat in his chair, unmoving, for 45 minutes and played what seemed like one single, endless song. When he finished, I couldn't remember how he'd began, but I knew I'd been taken someplace far, far away, and I was sad to be back. This album conjures that same feeling for me. The word "groove" has been poisoned by association with post-hippie jam-band idiocy, but Junior's music grooves. It will move you in ways you didn't think possible. It will burn tracks into your brainpan and it will never leave once it's in you. Yes, you've lived this long without this album, but once you hear it you'll wonder how that could have been possible. Junior Kimbrough changed my life. Let him change yours.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Soul Blues, Indeed, July 24, 2000

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BluesDuke "A sacred cow is worth but one thin... (Las Vegas, Nevada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sad Days Lonely Nights (Audio CD)

Half mountain holler, half strangled cry, Junior Kimbrough's was a music in which the elementary components dripped with something deeper. He didn't just restore the hypnotic ramble and hum of classic north Mississippi blues, he gave it a steroid shot with his slow-boiling style and his wide groove. This is a far cry from the shred-manic, soul-deprived garbage which is being passed off as the blues most of the time today. And it's as close to the core of humanness as contemporary blues will ever get without yanking Robert Johnson or Fred McDowell up out of their graves, fitting them with electric guitars, and urging them to let it loose right there with the elder upstart.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Chulaholma, MI April 93...the blues spirits were smilin., March 17, 1999

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Derek Taylor (Madison, WI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sad Days Lonely Nights (Audio CD)

If the original members of Black Sabbath had grown up deep in the Delta swamps, cutting their musical teeth on the slide guitar wizardry of Fred McDowell they might have sounded something like Junior Kimbrough & the Soul Blues Boys. This collection culled from live performances at Kimbrough's Juke Joint in 1993 offers over an hour of lengthy, grinding blues dirges with Junior & friends churning out their signature brand of whiskey-drenched Mississippi grunge...the playing is the antithesis of urban contemporary blues polish with lots of wrong notes and missed cues, but all of the imperfections simply add to the end result, some of the most truthful and moving blues waxed to disc. Kimbrough's death in early 98' was a serious blow to the longevity of this kind of music; all we're left with now are a handful of documents such as this as testaments of his brilliance.