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All Night Long: Junior Kimbrough's Juke Joint 1993-2000

Presented by Arts Center of Cannon County at Arts Center of Cannon County

September 16-November 2, 2009

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The Arts Center of Cannon County presents All Night Long: Junior Kimbrough's Juke Joint. Bill Steber was born and raised in middle Tennessee and his interest in photography began in elementary school as he used one of his father’s cameras on school trips and Boy Scout campouts. It was on one such campout at age 11 that Steber took an abstract photo that gave him what would be his first published photo.

After attaining degrees in Photography and English from Middle Tennessee State University, Steber spent the next 15 years making a name for himself in journalism, working as a staff photojournalist for the Tennessean in Nashville and winning dozens of regional and national photography awards. But, it is for work outside the newspaper that Steber is best known. In 1992, he found a way to combine his passions for photography and music by beginning an ambitions photographic survey of Blues culture in Mississippi.

Currently on exhibit in the Marley Berger gallery is a collection of photographs and mixed media that document the music, the dancers and the folk art paintings that covered the walls of Junior Kimbrough’s Juke Joint in Chulahoma, Mississippi. This rural folk art blues cathedral attracted the likes of Bono, Iggy Pop and members of the Rolling Stones who made pilgrimages to this ultimate blues mecca. Junior died in January of 1998 and then in April 2000, the club burned to the ground.