Cat. No. BCD 17572: JIMMY REED ~ JIMMY REED ROCKS. BEAR FAMILY BCD 17572. (IMPORT).

JAMES MATHIS “JIMMY” REED WAS BORN ON LELAND, MISSISSIPPI IN 1925. LELAND WAS A ROUGH AND DANGEROUS DELTA TOWN AND WAS CALLED “THE HELLHOLE OF THE DELTA”. LELAND WAS ALSO THE PLACE TO GO IF YOU WANTED TO HEAR BLUES MUSIC. BLUES MUSICIANS AND STRING BANDS WORKED STREET CORNERS AND TAVERNS AND THE WAS ALL FOLKS PLAYED AND WANTED TO HEAR. FROM AN EARLY AGE JIMMY WENT TO SEE FAMED BLUESMEN AS OFTEN AS HE COULD. A REGULAR WAS THE KING OF THE DELTA BLUES, CHARLEY PATTON. JIMMY WANTED TO JUST ROAM AROUND AND PLAY THE BLUES. JIMMY RECEIVED HIS FIRST GUITAR AT THE AGE OF NINE. IN THE MID-1930S, THE REED FAMILY MOVED TO SHAW, A LITTLE TOWN IN BOLIVAR COUNTY. THE FAMILY JOINED THE PILGRIM REST MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH AND JIMMY BECAME A MEMBER OF A LOCALLY FAMOUS GOSPEL QUARTET, BUT JIMMY KNEW HE LIKED THE BLUES BETTER. WHEN JIMMY BECAME A TEENAGER, HE JOINED HIS BROTHER JOSEPH IN DUNCAN, MS. IT WAS AROUND THIS TIME THAT JIMMY MET UP WITH EDDIE TAYLOR AND THE BOYS STARTED WORKING THE SAME JOBS TOGETHER AND AFTER WORK, THEY GET THEIR GUITARS AND PLAY. THEY KEPT ON DREAMING AND PICKING THEIR GUITARS, FORGING A STYLE THAT LATER TRAVELLED THE WORLD AS “THE JIMMY REED SOUND”. AS WITH MANY BLUES MUSICIANS JIMMY REED RECORDED A NUMBER OF UPTEMPO BLUES NUMBERS OVER THE YEARS AND BEAR FAMILY HAVE 29 OF JIMMY BEST UPTEMPO NUMBERS ON THIS SUPERB CD COUNTRY. ALONG WITH A 36-PAGE BOOKLET CONTAINING COMPREHENSIVE LINER NOTES. THIS IS A MUST ALBUM FOR ANY BLUES AFICIONADOS. SUPERB******   

TRACK LISTING: I’m Going Upside Your Head / I Don’t Go For That / Baby, What You Want Me To Do / Baby, What’s Wrong / I’m Gonna Ruin You / I’m A Love You / Shoot My Baby / Bright Lights Big City / Take It Slow / Ain’t That Loving You Baby / High And Lonesome / Big Bos Man / Come Love / You’re Something Else / I Ain’t Got You / The Sun Is Shining / Let’s Get Together / Good Lover / She Don’t Want Me No More / When Girls Do It / I Found My Baby / Pretty Thing / I’m The Man Down There / My Bitter Seed / Shame Shame Shame / Eddie Taylor – Bad Boy / E.T Blues / Big Town Playboy / Train Fare.

CD - DIGI-PAK