James Junkin Jr. & Jim Gunning

Music born from the Swamp, with roots in traditional country and western music, welcome to Alternative Countrys new outlaws... James Junkin' Jr. and Jim Gunning. Songs about drinkin', songs about hurtin', songs about smokin', songs about livin' and dyin', songs about hope, despair, and songs about spendin' time in jail. We got both kinds a' Music... Country And Western!

Until the age of 35 I never knew my true name, despite always knowing I was adopted. Up 'till then I thought of myself as Mitch Krol, and truth to tell I still do. For sure most my friends keep on calling me Mitch. That?s fine by me. What?s the sense losin? friends jus 'cos I found out daddy James Junkin only had the wit to call me Junior? Tell ya for nuthin? t?ain?t no sense at all.

Still, I is who I is, no point denyin? the truth. Krol wrote songs and I reckon no reason I shouldn?t either, long as I do best what I know.

And what do I know? I know the shame of jail after fightin? with my true love. I know the business end of a knife stuck in me by a lodger gone crazy on drugs. Leastways I know a few half-assed licks on my Dobro.

Arguably the only music man with an honest claim to play alongside JJJr. Mistah Gunning?s sins include busking with the Gloryhole trio, public drunkenness and failing to live up to the scorn of his dominatrix ex-wife.