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You Better Run: The Essential Junior Kimbrough | 
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| Artist: Junior Kimbrough
Label: Fat Possum
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 10792
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 80340
UPC: 766481890522
EAN: 0045778034024
ASIN: B00006AWM0
Release Date: August 27, 2002
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| Tracks:
| • | Release Me | | • | All Night Long | | • | Meet Me in the City | | • | You Better Run | | • | Done Got Old | | • | Sad Days, Lonely Nights | | • | Old Black Mattie | | • | Most Things Haven't Worked Out | | • | I'm Leaving You Baby | | • | Keep on Braggin' | | • | Tramp | | • | Nobody But You |
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Amazon.com
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
Album Description
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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Kimbrough at Best solo September 10, 2008
Junior kimbrough came from another planet... when he is solo, Junior is the pervair of Mississippi swarmp music at its best, his choice of notes. timing and the almost agonizing sound of his voice is way way out there but still old north Mississippi blues. With a constant beat, (with his band which are great in there own right) is still great and its easy to see where some of the sixties bands got there chops, his playing was so eccentric I can only think of Hendrix when he would go off. Jessie Mae Hemphill was my friend and she told me of bands such as the Stones going to Junior Kimbroughs juke joint, got to give them points for having big ones to take the chance of never leaving the way they came in... If you are reading this then you know of kimbrough, kudo's to you, purchase any of his stuff and you won't be disappointed except check out the tunes on the cd or down load because some have poor recordings but even then .. it sounds probably more like a Friday night at his juke joint.
 Boogie down dirty blues May 17, 2008
Damn if the cover doesn't just sound like the album. Every tune is dirty, follows old school blues stylings- few chord changes, non-song structure, good beat to move to. Let it play from track 1 while drinking, you'll know what I mean.
Essential Down-Home Blues June 19, 2007
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
"You Better Run - The Essential Junior Kimbrough" serves as a fascinating collection of tunes from one of the most hypnotically, bare-bones musicians on the twentieth century.
Junior Kimbrough was a Mississippi Delta bluesman to the core, and these tunes, all recorded live, reveal a classic musician who perfomed at his own juke joint in the Mississippi woods, and seemed to be playing for himself as much, if not more, than for others.
"All Night Long," "Meet Me In The City," "Done Got Old," "You Better Run," and the outstanding "Most Things Haven't Worked Out" display Kimbrough rough-hewd vocals and mezmerizing guitar playing.
This collection shows that there will always be musicians who live and play on their own terms. Junior Kimbrough was definitely one of the best.
Essential Blues April 20, 2007
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
You thought Robert Johnson's Hellhound On My Trail was spooky? You haven't heard anything until you've heard Junior Kimbrough's You Better Run. How this brand of blues was overlooked for so many years is inexplicable, yet understandable as the Mississippi delta and Chicago styles of blues dominates what record labels choose to release. But up in the hill country of north Mississippi a different style of blues developed. You can hear echoes of it in Mississippi Fred McDowell and John Lee Hooker. Thank God that Fat Possum Records brought bluesmen like Kimbrough, RL Burnside, and T-Model Ford into the studio and preserved this music for future generations. Start here, then search Amazon for "Fat Possum." You will never listen to blues the same way again.
Great Collection but Not All Inclusive August 2, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I am not one to write a review when so many people have already said so much (and they are all spot on) but there was something I needed to add here. This was the first Junior Kimbrough album I bought and it blew me away. I love Junior Kimbrough's brand of punk blues. Enjoying this collection prompted me to pick up all his other works (6 CDs in all) and they were all worth it. What I'm getting to, in a roundabout way, is that not all Junior's albums are represented on this collection. His two earliest Do the Rump and All Night Long seem to be left off of this collection, or at least the versions of songs from those albums. It is worth your money to buy this as a starter but I deplore you not to stop there pick up Junior's other works- he really deserves the spotlight which he has never gotten.
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