Junior Kimbrough Sad Days, Lonely Nights

"...Junior Kimbrough is the blues at its rawest....Chulahoma, Miss., is home to Kimbrough, and only that kind of harsh, lush ancient South could spawn these blues. An electric outfit, the Soul Blues Boys power charge [the music]..."
"...The grooves...here are so sweet and thick it's amazing they can make it through the speaker cones....These are the blues, not as sanitized pop fare or dusted-up museum pieces..."
"...may be the most primal sound anywhere... relentless and intense...pre-shuffle, modal electric blues, the roots of the root....as a document of some of the most unfettered and emotionally honest blues...today, this disc is indispensable..."