Junior Kimbrough’s Juke Joint on Google Earth

Few people know that you can scrub back in time on Google Earth revealing all kinds of fun historical stuff. I even found Hitler’s lair before we bombed it into oblivion (mess with the US and Allies and find out). I went through the years and found Junior’s Juke Joint outside of Holly Springs, Mississippi. Here is a Google Earth breakdown. Enjoy.

April 11, 2000
A church-turned-blues-den founded by Junior Kimbrough in Chulahoma, Miss., where the drink of choice for Sunday-night jams was homemade corn whiskey, burned to the ground last Wednesday.

While investigators continue to probe the cause of the blaze, locals are mourning the loss of a small building that was home for a fertile North Mississippi blues community.

Junior Kimbrough Quote – Cotton Patch Blues

“See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch blues.Ain't nobody now can play the blues that I play.”
— Junior Kimbrough

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Junior Kimbrough Quotes - One Chord

Junior Kimbrough Quote – One Chord

“My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song.”
— Junior Kimbrough

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I have created playlists of various styles and genres from both my research and listening pleasure.

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