Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
This filmed field recording depicts Winston Lamont Doxey, a.k.a. “Juju Allabu,” singing and playing two original songs on a thumb piano. (This instrument is also known as a kalimba.) As he states on camera, Juju performed in this manner at house parties. I shot this footage on September 27, 1990, at Juju’s home in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Sitting alongside of Juju is young Duwayne Burnside, who adds a vocal accompaniment to the first song, and Peter Redvers-Lee, then the Editor of Living Blues magazine.
Little information about Winston Lamont Doxey is available online. He was born on March 14, 1951, joined the U.S. Marines, and served as a PFC in Viet Nam. In 1988 Doxey, a member of the Junior Kimbrough and the Soul Blues Boys, played drums on the tracks released as Kimbrough’s “Do the Rump” album. He passed away on August 9, 2012, and was buried in Memphis’s West Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery.
Four days before making this field recording of Winston Lamont Doxey, Peter Redvers-Lee and I filmed Junior Kimbrough performing a set in his juke joint and giving an interview afterwards in his parking lot. Here are the links to these: youtube.com/watch?v=QSJEIihIOsw and youtube.com/watch?v=bu0JJHcRhT0&t=25s.
Engineer/producer Nik Hunt and I hope you enjoy this unique recording. To help us continue producing "Talking Guitar" podcasts of historic interviews, please send a donation in care of paypal.me/TalkingGuitar. Thank you!
For dozens more guitar-intensive podcasts, interview transcripts, and articles, visit Talking Guitar magazine at jasobrecht.substack.com/.
#jujudoxey #hillcountry #mississippiblues #juniorkimbrough #duwayneburnside
This podcast is copyright 2023 by Jas Obrecht. All rights reserved.
This filmed field recording depicts Winston Lamont Doxey, a.k.a. “Juju Allabu,” singing and playing two original songs on a thumb piano. (This instrument is also known as a kalimba.) As he states on camera, Juju performed in this manner at house parties. I shot this footage on September 27, 1990, at Juju’s home in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Sitting alongside of Juju is young Duwayne Burnside, who adds a vocal accompaniment to the first song, and Peter Redvers-Lee, then the Editor of Living Blues magazine.
Little information about Winston Lamont Doxey is available online. He was born on March 14, 1951, joined the U.S. Marines, and served as a PFC in Viet Nam. In 1988 Doxey, a member of the Junior Kimbrough and the Soul Blues Boys, played drums on the tracks released as Kimbrough’s “Do the Rump” album. He passed away on August 9, 2012, and was buried in Memphis’s West Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery.
Four days before making this field recording of Winston Lamont Doxey, Peter Redvers-Lee and I filmed Junior Kimbrough performing a set in his juke joint and giving an interview afterwards in his parking lot. Here are the links to these: youtube.com/watch?v=QSJEIihIOsw and youtube.com/watch?v=bu0JJHcRhT0&t=25s.
Engineer/producer Nik Hunt and I hope you enjoy this unique recording. To help us continue producing "Talking Guitar" podcasts of historic interviews, please send a donation in care of paypal.me/TalkingGuitar. Thank you!
For dozens more guitar-intensive podcasts, interview transcripts, and articles, visit Talking Guitar magazine at jasobrecht.substack.com/.
#jujudoxey #hillcountry #mississippiblues #juniorkimbrough #duwayneburnside
This podcast is copyright 2023 by Jas Obrecht. All rights reserved.
