Junior Kimbrough

Junior Kimbrough was born on Jul 28, 1930 in USA. Junior Kimbrough's big-screen debut came with Big Bad Love directed by Arliss Howard in 2001. Junior Kimbrough is known for Hustle & Flow directed by Craig Brewer, Terrence Howard stars as Djay and Anthony Anderson as Key. The upcoming new movie Junior Kimbrough plays is Mississippi Grind which will be released on Aug 13, 2015.

Born David Kimbrough in Hudsonville, MS, in 1930, Junior Kimbrough learned to play guitar as a child by listening to the records of such blues artists as Mississippi Fred McDowell. He made his first record, "Tramp", in 1968, and followed that with several more singles, but although he was well known in Mississippi, he was virtually unknown outside it. One reason for that could be that in addition to being a performer, he also owned "juke joints", small clubs that catered to black audiences in the Mississippi Delta and "hill country" region, and his careers as a performer and club owner kept him pretty much confined to the state. In 1992 he appeared in the documentary