Junior Kimbrough "All Night Long"

From The Delta Blues page on Facebook.

Today we remember Blues artist and juke joint owner, Junior Kimbrough who passed away on this day in 1998 at the age of 67. He was born in Hudsonville, Mississippi in 1930 and began playing guitar in his youth, influenced heavily by Lightnin' Hopkins. By the late 1950s he began playing in his own droning, hypnotic style which was a prime example of North Country Hill Blues and greatly resembled artists such as John Lee Hooker. He moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1966 and began recording, although those recordings wouldn't be released until 2009. He did see five albums released in his lifetime and was a long time friend and label mate of R. L. Burnside on the Fat Possum label. Around 1992, he opened a juke joint called Junior's Place in Chulahoma, Mississippi. It was a great traditional juke and drew crowds from around the world, including Keith Richards, Iggy Pop and members of the band U2. Although his sons kept the juke open after his death, it burned to the ground on April 6th, 2000.