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Robert Kimbrough Sr. BluesConnection
Orbital Music Park - Rehearsal spaces & community
3108 W Cary St
Richmond, VA 23221
May 30, 2024
7:30 PM EDT
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A son of the great Mississippi blues legend David “Junior” Kimbrough carries on his legacy. Robert Kimbrough Sr continues the Cotton Patch Soul Blues style created by his father, the legendary Junior Kimbrough. From an early age, Robert was steeped in the sounds and life of North Mississippi and its distinctive style of blues. Growing up, Robert listened, first-hand to Mississippi blues royalty that played with his father at home, at Junior’s Juke Joint Club, and the ever frequent weekend house party and porch jam session. The blues was simply part of everyday life as a Kimbrough. The Cotton Patch Soul Blues style that Robert plays is a straight link to the music that his father originated in North Mississippi. It is a deep soul sound that can be linked back to his ancestors coming from the cotton fields, singing and ‘hollering‘ as they worked in the tall rows of Mississippi cotton. This distinct and somewhat underground style of blues is rooted in hypnotic, rhythms and dance-able grooves. The Black Keys released an entire album in 2006 of Junior Kimbrough cover songs called Chulahoma: The Songs of Junior Kimbrough. Up until the mid 80s, the only way to hear this music was to visit a church-turned-blues-den founded by Junior Kimbrough in Chulahoma, MS that unfortunately burned down in 2000. Robert released his first CD, "Willey Woot," in 2016 and quickly followed that with “What I’m Gon’ Do? Where I’m Gon’ Go From Here?” He released his third full-length CD, "My Frog," in 2016 as well as a live CD, "Live From The Hut The Sons & Friends of Junior Kimbrough," playing with family and friends who were close to Junior Kimbrough. Robert released his fourth self-produced CD, "I Been Fixed" which won the coveted 2019 AMG award for Album of the Year.
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Robert Kimbrough Sr. BluesConnection Biography
Come ride the Blues with Robert Kimbrough, Sr. BluesConnection.
The music is in his blood.
Robert Malone b.1968 Holly Springs, Mississippi) Lead by Robert Kimbrough, Sr., the youngest son of Northern Mississippi Blues legend Junior Kimbrough pays tribute to the great music of Robert’s late father. The band’s hypnotic sound is a melodic combination of traditional cotton patch blues, post-electric 60’s jams with smooth, soulful vocals. Steeped in the Blues his whole life, Robert began playing guitar at age five. He learned to play all night alongside his father, Junior (The Original Soul Blues Boy), and his brothers, David and Kinney, at house parties and picnics. In 1995 Robert joined his father and brothers at “Junior’s Place”, an infamous juke joint in Chulahoma, MS, where he played regularly until 2000, when the club closed due to a fire.
Robert Kimbrough, Sr. BluesConnection has also shared the stage with a slew of luminaries of the Mississippi Blues tradition. They have performed at Kenny Brown’s North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic in Waterford, The Juke Joint Festival and Cat Head Delta Blues Festival in Clarksdale, just to name a few.
Robert recently held the Second Annual Kimbrough Cotton Patch Blues Festival in Holly Springs, MS: a threeday
blues festival with an exhibition at Rust College on The Life and Legacy of Junior Kimbrough, a Cotton
Patch Blues Musicians Workshop featuring instructional sessions by those that played with Junior Kimbrough,
live performances by many great Hill Country and Cotton Patch Blues artists and a special Kimbrough Cotton Patch Kölsch microbrew beer. This event is held at a bona fide juke joint in Holly Springs, MS dubbed The Hut.
Robert is always busy playing all the big festivals including Juke Joint Fest, North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, Blues Rules Crissier in Switzerland, Lucerne Blues Festival in Switzerland, Prairie Crossroads Blues Fest in Champaign, IL and the Riverfront Blues Festival in Wilmington, DE.
Robert is one of the hardest working artists in the blues world and continues to share his rare form of crowd pleasing blues all over the
world. Robert Kimbrough Sr Blues Connection recently won 1st place band in the 2018 Mississippi Delta Regional Blues Challenge as well as being a semi-finalist in Memphis, TN at the 2019 International Blues Challenge.
Robert Kimbrough, Sr. BluesConnection has four self-released CD titles available.
Old Man is Gone - 2008
Battlefield - 2013 (with special guests David Kimbrough and Duwayne Burnside)
It’s Your World - 2014
Wiley Woot Collection - 2016
My Frog - 2017
I Been Fixed – 2018
Read MoreThe music is in his blood.
Robert Malone b.1968 Holly Springs, Mississippi) Lead by Robert Kimbrough, Sr., the youngest son of Northern Mississippi Blues legend Junior Kimbrough pays tribute to the great music of Robert’s late father. The band’s hypnotic sound is a melodic combination of traditional cotton patch blues, post-electric 60’s jams with smooth, soulful vocals. Steeped in the Blues his whole life, Robert began playing guitar at age five. He learned to play all night alongside his father, Junior (The Original Soul Blues Boy), and his brothers, David and Kinney, at house parties and picnics. In 1995 Robert joined his father and brothers at “Junior’s Place”, an infamous juke joint in Chulahoma, MS, where he played regularly until 2000, when the club closed due to a fire.
Robert Kimbrough, Sr. BluesConnection has also shared the stage with a slew of luminaries of the Mississippi Blues tradition. They have performed at Kenny Brown’s North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic in Waterford, The Juke Joint Festival and Cat Head Delta Blues Festival in Clarksdale, just to name a few.
Robert recently held the Second Annual Kimbrough Cotton Patch Blues Festival in Holly Springs, MS: a threeday
blues festival with an exhibition at Rust College on The Life and Legacy of Junior Kimbrough, a Cotton
Patch Blues Musicians Workshop featuring instructional sessions by those that played with Junior Kimbrough,
live performances by many great Hill Country and Cotton Patch Blues artists and a special Kimbrough Cotton Patch Kölsch microbrew beer. This event is held at a bona fide juke joint in Holly Springs, MS dubbed The Hut.
Robert is always busy playing all the big festivals including Juke Joint Fest, North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, Blues Rules Crissier in Switzerland, Lucerne Blues Festival in Switzerland, Prairie Crossroads Blues Fest in Champaign, IL and the Riverfront Blues Festival in Wilmington, DE.
Robert is one of the hardest working artists in the blues world and continues to share his rare form of crowd pleasing blues all over the
world. Robert Kimbrough Sr Blues Connection recently won 1st place band in the 2018 Mississippi Delta Regional Blues Challenge as well as being a semi-finalist in Memphis, TN at the 2019 International Blues Challenge.
Robert Kimbrough, Sr. BluesConnection has four self-released CD titles available.
Old Man is Gone - 2008
Battlefield - 2013 (with special guests David Kimbrough and Duwayne Burnside)
It’s Your World - 2014
Wiley Woot Collection - 2016
My Frog - 2017
I Been Fixed – 2018
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