Junior Kimbrough

Charlie Feathers, the rockabilly pioneer, farmed the same Hudsonville plantation as Junior Kimbrough and called him "the beginning and end of music." Feathers also supplied the name for the sound: cotton patch blues. Kimbrough learned guitar at eight from his father and by the late 1950s led an electric band, the Soul Blues Boys, unusual among North Mississippi players who mostly worked solo or in duos. In 1968 he cut a single for Memphis's Philwood label, credited as Junior Kimbell. The marker was meant for his juke joint in Chulahoma but stands in Holly Springs.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum — 0.2 mi
  The house in Holly Springs where Ida B. Wells was born into slavery in 1862, now a museum of African American history, art and culture.
• Rust College — 0.5 mi
  The first historically Black college founded in Mississippi, started in 1866 in a Holly Springs church by a formerly enslaved minister and a white Methodist clergyman.

More markers nearby

• R. L. Burnside — steps away
• Holly Springs — steps away
• Mississippi Central R.R. Campaign — steps away
• Yellow Fever House — 0.2 mi