Subject: Junior Kimbrough

• GEILS AND DOLLS

  May 12, 1993

• Playin' Possum

  Unsung heroes Junior Kimbrough and R.L. Burnside signed on with a start-up Mississippi label to record the best blues of the decade

  December 14, 1995

• Chaos Theory

  R.L. Burnside's indestructible hill-country blues

  December 26, 1996

• Pic Hits for the week

  December 26, 1996

• Back in the Game

  Chicago soul singer Syl Johnson is reborn with a little help from the homeboys

  May 8, 1997

• Memphis Creeps

  After four years of inspired nonsense, the Oblivians remain desperate but not serious

  October 23, 1997

• Whiskey River

  R.L. Burnside's passion for alcohol is matched only by his command of rawboned Delta blues

  August 20, 1998

• Ford Tough

  Mississippi bluesman T-Model Ford has known little but chaos and violence, and that's what he sings about

  June 17, 1999

• Tricky Woo

  Les Sables Magiques (Tee Pee)

  October 25, 2001

• A Dan Auerbach Story, From Way Back

  The Black Keys as they looked back when I interviewed them.With The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach's solo record, Keep It Hid, having come out last Tuesday and his protégé, Jessica Lea Mayfield coming to town tomorrow, I thought this would be a good time to share a story I wrote on Auerbach for my college paper back when his band was still an up-and-coming act in our shared hometown of Akron, Ohio. The story is on the jump.If nothing else, it goes to show that sometimes pissing off a source works ou

  February 16, 2009

• Everlasting Sounds

  Ten of the year's most timeless records

  January 4, 2007

• Buddy Guy

  Just how sweet is that tea?

  February 23, 2006

• Electric Mud

  The North Mississippi Allstars are young guys passing on an old tradition

  January 24, 2002

• North Mississippi Allstars

  51 Phantom (Tone-Cool)

  December 20, 2001

• Roosting Blues

  A revived label serves the blues well

  August 23, 2001

• Four-Piece Combo

  Seven albums on, Southern Culture on the Skids waxes philosophical about hillbilly e-commerce, fried chicken and more

  January 25, 2001

• Southern Culture on the Skids

  Liquored Up and Lacquered Down (EMusic/TVT) and Tav Falco's Panther Burns Panther Phobia (In The Red)

  October 19, 2000

• Mississippi Homegrown

  The Fat Possum Label Showcase with R.L. Burnside

  January 28, 1999