Robert Kimbrough, Sr. - What I'm Gon' Do? Where I'm Gon' Go from Here? (2017)

Tracklist

01. What I'm Gon' Do? Where I'm Gon' Go from Here?
02. Your Face
03. Gas Prices
04. Can I Smell You Tonight
05. Coffee
06. Chattanooga, TN
07. Need to Ask Some Questions About My Daddy

This is Robert Kimbrough, Sr.'s follow-up to his 2016’s Willey Woot CD. Robert has his usual suspects in rare form on this cotton patch blues release including David Kimbrough, Kenny Kimbrough, Duwayne Burnside & Jim Hall.

Robert Kimbrough Sr. continues the CottonPatch Blues style created by his father, the legendary Junior Kimbrough. From an early age, Robert was steeped in the sounds and life of the Mississippi Hill Country and its distinctive styles of blues. Growing up, Robert listened 1st-hand to Mississippi blues royalty that played with his father at home in the evenings, at Junior’s juke joint club at night, as well as to the all-too-frequent weekend house party and porch jam sessions. The blues was simply part of everyday life as a Kimbrough. Robert continues his father’s tradition, along with some of his 36 siblings on his father’s side. You can often nd many of them sharing the stage on any given night in Mississippi. The Kimbrough name, along with the Burnside name, is part of a blues dynasty that remains strong today, bringing their unique blues style to the world.The Cotton Patch Blues style that Robert Kimbrough, Sr. continues was best summarized by the pioneer rockabilly performer Charlie Feathers as something between bluegrass andDelta blues. Feathers goes on to describe thatthe Cotton Patch Blues possess an unusual blues structure that is both inventive and free, and that the close interplay between the bass, drums and guitar rhythms creates an unusual texture. Robert de nes Cotton Patch Blues as a deep soul sound that can be linked back to the sounds coming from the cotton elds – eld hands singing out as they worked in the rows of cotton.Robert Kimbrough, Sr.’s musical journey started at an early age and took him to Aurora, Illinois to live and play for a few years, then back to Holly Springs, MS to play with his dad and focus on his music, as well as to a tour playing with Junior Kimbrough in 1996 for Fat Possum records, before ending up in prison for 6 1/2 years where he wrote all the tracks for his 1st release, Willey Woot. Once out of prison, Robert became a new man and devoted all of his focus on sharing his unique sound under his new moniker – Blues Connection – as one of the hardest working guys in the blues business.

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