Jimmy DAWKINS - Fast Fingers 1969

 

Jimmy DAWKINS - Fast Fingers 1969
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Blues

Released in 1969, after guitarist Jimmy Dawkins had served a long apprenticeship as a sideman in the Chicago electric blues scene, Fast Fingers remains one of the finest pure electric blues albums of its era. Dawkins proves to be a solid songwriter and an able singer, although the best moments on the album invariably come when he tears off a casually perfect, deeply soulful, but never showy electric solo. Highlights include the stomping instrumental "Triple Trebles," featuring an outstanding Dawkins solo over a funky horn-driven rhythm, and the mellow, laid-back opener, "It Serves Me Right to Suffer."
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Jimmy Dawkins- (Vocals, Guitar);
Mighty Joe Young- (Guitar);
Eddie Shaw- (Tenor Sax);
Lafayette Leake- (Piano, Organ);
Joe Harper, Ernest Gatewood- (Bass);
Lester Dorsie- (Drums).
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A1. It Serves Me Right to Suffer  4:07
A2. I Wonder Why  3:05
A3. I'm Good for Nothing  5:12
A4. Triple Trebles  2:42
A5. I Finally Learned a Lesson  3:43
B1. You Got to Keep on Trying  4:12
B2. Night Rock  3:26
B3. Little Angel Child  3:55
B4. I Don't Know What Love Is  5:57
B5. Breaking Down  5:31
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Jimmy DAWKINS - Blues and Pain 1994

Jimmy DAWKINS - Blues and Pain 1994

Blues

The winter of 1994 in Chicago was particularly brutal. The kind of freezing, miserable winter that can numb your soul and give you the blues. Blues and pain. The influence of these conditions are behind this new Jimmy Dawkins release. Jimmy stuffed his amp in the trunk of his Cadillac, grabbed his big guitar and his drummer Ray Scott, and drove straight on through from Chicago to Atlanta. The next two days were spent holed up in KALA studios, where Jimmy and the band ripped into the piercing, tormented set of blues contained on this disc. The only luxury was that we had 16 ounce beers instead of the regular kind. Producer Bryan Cole and engineer Edd Miller silently smiled at each other as the tape ran and the shredding guitar lines sprang forth from Jimmy's trademark Gibson. The reigning king of Chicago's west side expelled all the feelings that had built up after extensive international road travel. Blues and Pain is a volcanic eruption of soul, made all the more intense by turning up the volume. Crank it !
Bad Luck Doug.
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Jimmy Dawkins- (Guitar, Vocal)
Wayne Goins- (Guitar)
Lebron Scott- (Bass)
Ted Dortch- (Sax 4)
Ernie Baker- (Trumpet 4)
Steve McRay- (Keyboard)
Bryan Cole- (Drum)
Ray Scott- (Drum)
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01. Right To Quit You (3:53)
02. No Pain (5:48)
03. Blues and Soul (3:33)
04. Lonely Guitar Man (5:19)
05. Fool In Heah (5:40)
06. Gitar Jive (4:22)
07. Know Your Lover (4:41)
08. Driftin' Sand (3:54)
09. Down With The Blues (6:44)
10. Who Done It (3:57)
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Jimmy DAWKINS - Come Back Baby 1976

Jimmy DAWKINS - Come Back Baby 1976
Label: MCM
Recording Date: Nov 10, 1976
Release Date: 1995

James Henry "Jimmy" Dawkins (born October 24, 1936, Tchula, Mississippi) is a blues guitarist and singer. He moved to Chicago in 1955. He worked in a box factory, and started to play local blues clubs, gaining a reputation as a session musician.

In 1969, thanks to the efforts of his friend Magic Sam, he released his first solo album Fast Fingers on Delmark Records, winning the "Grand Prix du Disque" from the Hot Club de France. In 1971 Delmark released his second album All For Business with singer, Andrew "Big Voice" Odom, and the guitarist, Otis Rush. Dawkins also toured the Midwest in the late 70's backed up by blues greats James Solberg (of Luther Allison fame) on guitar and Jon Preizler, a Hammond B-3 player known for his soulful jazz influenced style.
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Chicago guitarist Jimmy Dawkins would just as soon leave his longtime nickname "Fast Fingers" behind. It was always something of a stylistic misnomer anyway; Dawkins's West Side-styled guitar slashes and surges, but seldom burns with incendiary speed. Dawkins's blues are generally of the brooding, introspective variety -- he doesn't engage in flashy pyrotechnics or outrageous showmanship.

It took a long time for Dawkins to progress from West Side fixture to nationally known recording artist. He rode a Greyhound bus out of Mississippi in 1955, dressed warm to ward off the Windy City's infamous chill factor. Only trouble was, he arrived on a sweltering July day! Harpist Billy Boy Arnold offered the newcomer encouragement, and he eventually carved out a niche on the competitive West Side scene (his peers included Magic Sam and Luther Allison).

Sam introduced Dawkins to Delmark Records boss Bob Koester. Fast Fingers, Dawkins's 1969 debut LP for Delmark--still his best album to date--was a taut, uncompromising piece of work that won the Grand Prix du Disque de Jazz from the Hot Club of France in 1971 as the year's top album. Andrew "Big Voice" Odom shared the singing and Otis Rush the second guitar duties on Dawkins's 1971 encore All for Business. But after his Delmark LP Blisterstring, Dawkins's subsequent recordings lacked intensity until 1991's oddly titled Kant Sheck Dees Bluze for Chicago's Earwig Records. After that, Dawkins waxed discs for Ichiban and Fedora, and continued to tour extensively.
By Bill Dahl. AMG.
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01.Come Back Baby-Charles  5:53
02.I Got Wise-Dawkins  8:42
03.Big Duke's-Dawkins  4:42
04.Cross Road Blues-Dawkins  6:00
05.D.'s Jam-Dawkins  3:29
06.Hard Road to Travel-Dawkins     6:56
07.Nature Ball-King  5:40
08.Blue Shadows Falling-Fulson     5:28
09.Ode to Billie Joe-Gentry  7:46
10.Pretty Woman-Dawkins  4:42
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