Bright Lights Big City
BABY, What You Want Me To Do
Baby Let Me Be Good To You - Carla Thomas
covered this
You Got Me Dizzy
Honest I Do - Rolling Stones covered this
You Don't Have to Go
Going to New York
Ain't That
Lovin You Baby
“SHAME SHAME SHAME” (a constant favourite at all
soul venues in the 1960's)
Jimmy
appeared in person at the Twisted Wheel.
He did an excellent gig - can't remember who backed him, however ( could have
been The Pretty
Things?). I was otherwise occupied with a girl called Doreen Hughes at the time
and saw precious little of one the greatest blues legends of all time. Still,
you're only young once as they say. “Shame Shame Shame” had made him a
star and was played constantly. It was an up tempo track but it still had his trade mark stamped all over
it, ‘six note specials’ a series of ‘dum dum dum der dum dum’s’ on drums
or guitar, that found their way onto almost everything he did - as recognisable
as the Bo Diddley jungle beat.
Jimmy Reed records were constant players at the Old Wheel in
Brazennose Street Manchester, before his hit “Shame Shame Shame”, because Roger
the DJ loved the man and also due to the Blues boom taking place in the UK in
the early 1960’s.
Jimmy Reed was born on a cotton plantation near Dunleith,
MS. He never learned to read or write, he could just sign his name.
It was Albert King that took him to Vee-Jay Records playing
again with Eddie Taylor his music friend and partner it took time but "You
Don't Have to Go" / "Boogie in the Dark" was a USA hit.
He was an alcoholic and suffered from epilepsy : Mathis
James Reed was born on 6th September 1925 and died in Oakland
California on the 29th August 1976.
Many of Jimmy Reed's best recordings were re-released on the
CD Blues Collection from Orobis in the early 1990's.
