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Jimmy Rogers: Chicago Bound - Singles A's & B's 1950-1959 (CD)

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  • Interpret: Jimmy Rogers

  • Album titlle: Chicago Bound - Singles A's & B's 1950-1959 (CD)

  • Label JASMINE

  • Genre Blues

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 0604988305425

  • weight in Kg 0.1
Rogers, Jimmy - Chicago Bound - Singles A's & B's 1950-1959 (CD) CD 1
01 That's Alright Jimmy Rogers
02 Ludella Jimmy Rogers
03 Going Away Blues Jimmy Rogers
04 Today Today Blues Jimmy Rogers
05 The World's In A Tangle Jimmy Rogers
06 She Loves Another Man Jimmy Rogers
07 Money, Marbles And Chalk Jimmy Rogers
08 Chance To Love Jimmy Rogers
09 I Used To Have A Woman Jimmy Rogers
10 Back Door Friend Jimmy Rogers
11 The Last Time Jimmy Rogers
12 Out On The Road Jimmy Rogers
13 Left Me With A Broken Heart Jimmy Rogers
14 Act Like You Love Me Jimmy Rogers
15 Chicago Bound Jimmy Rogers
16 Sloppy Drunk Jimmy Rogers
17 Blues All Day Long Jimmy Rogers
18 You're The One Jimmy Rogers
19 If It Ain't Me Jimmy Rogers
20 Walkin' By Myself Jimmy Rogers
21 One Kiss Jimmy Rogers
22 I Can't Believe Jimmy Rogers
23 What Have I Done Jimmy Rogers
24 Trace Of You Jimmy Rogers
25 My Last Meal Jimmy Rogers
26 Rock This House Jimmy Rogers
Jimmy Rogers and His Trio In addition to being the rhythmic glue that held Muddy Waters'... more
"Jimmy Rogers"

Jimmy Rogers and His Trio

In addition to being the rhythmic glue that held Muddy Waters' peerless band together, guitarist Jimmy Rogers was a prolific Chess artist himself through the 1950s. That's All Right was his first Chess single as a leader (he'd backed Muddy in the studio the previous year) serving notice that Muddy's band would be an exceptionally bountiful source of talent for the label. 

Rogers was born James A. Lane in Ruleville, Mississippi on June 3, 1924, growing up in Atlanta; Vance, Mississippi, West Memphis, Memphis, and St. Louis. "I started on harmonica," he said. "I was playing around with the guitar. I made me one when I was a kid growing up. I made one on the wall, down south. I started from that, listening to Robert Johnson's material, Blind Lemon Jefferson, guys like that." 

Rogers also spent time in Helena, where he listened to Sonny Boy Williamson's broadcasts. He arrived in Chicago shortly before Muddy and began playing professionally around 1946. "There was another fellow called Blue Smitty," Rogers said. "We were playing some gigs here when Muddy came to Chicago. I was playing harmonica with Blue Smitty. After we got together, we had two guitars with Muddy and Smitty, and I just went back to harmonica.

"Then I just turned over after Smitty left town," he said. "We still needed the second guitar there, so Little Walter came in. Sunnyland (Slim) brought Walter to Chicago. He was a fantastic harmonica player. And I just give up the harp to him, and taken over full on guitar." They had an uncanny musical ESP. "I had my own ideas about it, about the blues, and Muddy had his. So did Little Walter," he said. "We'd catch on, comprehend real fast, between the three of us. It wasn't too hard for us, because each one of us understood the other one's reflex. So we got together, we would do quite a bit of rehearsing on the bandstand, where the public didn't know about it. 

"I really didn't know what it was all about, and Muddy didn't either. We were just doing something to our satisfaction, and it was very well pleasing to the public. So then when we discovered what was going down, then I said, 'Wow, man! We got something here, we don't know how far we can go with this stuff!'" They were so good that they brashly challenged other bands. "We was the Headhunters back in those days," said Muddy. "One night we went into a club that had a contest—I think $15 and a fifth of whiskey. And we went in there and just stripped it!"

Chess wasn't the first label Rogers recorded for as a leader. He'd done a session for Ora Nelle, tried again with Regal in 1949, and first cut That's All Right for Apollo in 1950. All those sides stayed on the shelf. But when Jimmy redid That's All Right on August 15, 1950 with Little Walter on harp and bassist Big Crawford, Chess had the sense to present Jimmy to the public. The song had first been cut in 1947 by Othum Brown as Ora Nelle Blues on tiny Maxwell Street-based Ora Nelle. "I had been doing it for a long time," Rogers said. "I had been turning it around, kicking it around." In the process, he made it his own.

 

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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Tracklist
Rogers, Jimmy - Chicago Bound - Singles A's & B's 1950-1959 (CD) CD 1
01 That's Alright
02 Ludella
03 Going Away Blues
04 Today Today Blues
05 The World's In A Tangle
06 She Loves Another Man
07 Money, Marbles And Chalk
08 Chance To Love
09 I Used To Have A Woman
10 Back Door Friend
11 The Last Time
12 Out On The Road
13 Left Me With A Broken Heart
14 Act Like You Love Me
15 Chicago Bound
16 Sloppy Drunk
17 Blues All Day Long
18 You're The One
19 If It Ain't Me
20 Walkin' By Myself
21 One Kiss
22 I Can't Believe
23 What Have I Done
24 Trace Of You
25 My Last Meal
26 Rock This House