Will Kimbrough born in Mobile

Mobile, Alabama

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, Alabama

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 in 1964 is an American

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 Singer-Songwriter

Singer-songwriter

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, multi-instrumentalist

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 and producer

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 currently based in Nashville

Nashville, Tennessee

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, Tennessee

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Biography

Kimbrough started his musical career as a founding member of Will & the Bushmen, a popular college band in the eighties that produced a handful of albums and singles and made it to MTV

MTV

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. He then went on to form the Bis-quits with long-time friend Tommy Womack

Tommy Womack

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. The Bis-quits produced an eponymous album which was released on John Prine

John Prine

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’s Oh-Boy label.

Kimbrough is also a producer and has produced albums for Adrienne Young

Adrienne Young

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, Rodney Crowell

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, Todd Snider

Todd Snider

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, Kate Campbell

Kate Campbell

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, Kim Richey

Kim Richey

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, Garrison Starr

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, Matthew Ryan, and Josh Rouse

Josh Rouse

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Kimbrough teamed up with Tommy Womack

Tommy Womack

Tommy Womack is an American Singer-songwriter, musician and author.Womack has a long history as a songwriter and as a musician with many bands and recording artists/acts, both defunct and active. His recordings span multiple genres: folk, rock, country, alt-country, and indie music all being...

, John Deaderick, Paul Griffith and Dave Jacques in 2005 to create the five piece band, Daddy. They recorded a live album in Frankfort, Kentucky Daddy at the Women’s Club and later an album called For a Second Time.

Kimbrough has released several solo albums to date, and has collaborated on many more, as well as serving as a session musician

Session musician

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 and sideman

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Kimbrough was one of the guest artists at Jimmy Buffett's Live from the Gulf Coast Concert on July 11, 2010.

Discography

Solo albums

• Fireworks, Vol. 2 (1999)
• This (2000)
• Home Away (2002)
• Godsend (2003)
• Americanitis (2006)
• EP (2007)

External links

• Official Site
• Daddy Band Site
• Will Kimbrough collection at the Internet Archive
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