Product description NEW Combo BLUWAVS CD and FLAC FILE .com Junior Kimbrough's ragged-but-right blues stylings are roots music with the down-home dirt still clinging to them, and they radiate honesty and authenticity with every note. This disc is an unofficial prequel to Kimbrough's classic 1992 release All Night Long, although half the songs, including a trio of live festival numbers (like "All Night Long"), were recorded later. The heart and soul of the disc is a quartet of tunes recorded at Kimbrough's home, and while the production qualities may horrify audiophiles, the primal power of the music will entrance and endlessly entertain fans of back-to-the-basics blues. As distant from the formulaic, high-gloss music currently passing for blues as Mississippi juke joints are from Hollywood recording studios, "Meet Me in the City" is a welcome and rewarding reminder that the best blues comes from unfiltered emotional expression and not from corporate calculations. --Michael Point
J**D
Wow!
I had heard some of Junior's tracks on the Fat Possum website and was hooked! The constant thumping of his guitar just keeps on hitting you, right in your soul. His guitar playing is unequaled in my book. His singing, his voice, I think are also unequaled. The melody in the opening (title) track just gets into your bones. If you don't feel, really feel, his music, I feel very sorry for you. I for one like hearing the home studio tracks! The feedback adds an interesting little twist that maybe wasn't intentional, but I think adds more than it takes away. To have been there in that house!
R**G
Junior Genious
The Black Keys made chuloma a album of some of Juniors Songs.This got us interested in Junior Meet me in the city is a live album recorded at Juniors Juke Joint like all Juniors albumd there are only 6 this album Rocks
S**N
Five Stars
Love the blues, love Junior's music
B**H
Two Stars
Only 2 or 3 songs I really enjoy
B**E
Meet Him or Deprive Yourself
Junior Kimbrough was a far cry from the rock and roll-aspiring, showboating poseurs passing themselves off as bluesmen these days. No bluesman since Muddy Waters took such a sure sense of the Delta soil from which roots the blues were born and drop-kicked it this acutely into his own time and place. This "prequel" to his Fat Possum recording career is about as raw as the primal blues gets and then some. The four homemade solo recordings which lead the album off are worth the price alone - maybe this isn't the most professional recording you'll ever hear, but if you think anyone else's blues stables will come within five nautical miles of this nudity of feeling - never mind to the most inspired deployment of electric guitar feedback the blues has ever known (imagine Charlie Patton beating the Velvet Underground at their own game) - you're dreaming even deeper than they are. The live cuts with Kimbrough's trio? For him they're about the going rate - but for anyone else, it's rotsa ruck trying, and they'd be damn fools not to.
N**N
Well Okay, this may not be his best work .
Even though this album has been given some terrible reviews It still diserves at least 4 stars. If you have never heard Junior before than this Cd is probably not for you. But, if you are a hard-core Jonior fan than this will make an interesting adition to you collection. Okay, with the exeption of the title track the audio quality is terrible. But, I listen to guys like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Son House and Charly Patton so much that this doesn't bother me. Plus, if you hate the first 4 tracks, the live tracks will more than make-up for that. In the last four tracks have a lot of screaming fans and guitar feed back. On the last track you can hear Junior thanking his fans and unplugging his guitar. Plus it even has a small clip of Stevie Ray Vaunghn at the end. This May sound silly but if you close you Eyes and use your imagination, it is almost like you are at the concert.
K**Y
The Bottom of the Barrel
I have all of Junior Kimbrough's CD's, and think each one is a five star recording--EXCEPT this one. Fat Possum has a bad habit of releasing anything they have in their vaults, particularly if the artist has died (witness the awful--and accurate--reviews of Asie Payton's final album "Worried".) "Meet Me In The City" is a CD of cuts recorded at home, live at blues festivals--[heck], even in the shower, it sounds like. The quality of the recordings is [poor], and a couple of the songs you've heard before if you own all the Kimbrough Fat Possum releases ("Done Got Old" and "All Night Long," for instance.) For all that, you can easily hear the great bluesman Kimbrough was underneath the fuzzy background noise, sloppy editing & repetition. For collectors and purists only.
T**7
good songs but...
..sounds like it was recorded in a toilet ! It does have a warning on the sleeve that it isn't up to his usual recording standards but hey ho - that warning doesn't appear on the website when buying!
D**Y
Five Stars
Brilliant
A**R
Five Stars
Thanks!!!
P**S
Another great collection from Fat Possum
A fascinating collection of rarities from the Junior Kimbrough vaults. The title track is a revelation! It does not list a date but this is the recording made by Anthony Wall in 1976 for the Honky Tonk radio show. The home recordings are rough but still worth owning. Again, no date is listed but, I believe, they were recorded in 1991; just before his Fat Possum deal. The next track "Junior's Place" was a left over from his 1996 'Most Thing's Haven't Worked Out' session. The last three numbers are for me the real gems. They alone are worth the five stars. Recorded live in 1993. The energy is something else.
