I'm Jimmy Reed

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艺人: Jimmy Reed
语种: 英语
厂牌: Collectables
发行时间: 2008年02月14日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by Bruce Eder

In deciding where to start listening to Jimmy Reed, the man and his record label made it easy -- at the beginning. His debut LP release, I'm Jimmy Reed, was about as strong a first album as was heard in Chicago blues, but also no stronger (relatively speaking) than the first long-players issued of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and co. As was the case with most bluesmen of his generation, Reed's debut LP was really a collection of single sides than an actual album of new material (though some of it did hail from its year of release), consisting of tracks he'd recorded from June 1953 (&Roll & Rhumba&) through March 1958 (&You Got Me Crying& etc.). So it's no surprise that it rivals The Best of Muddy Waters or any of the other 12& platters that were showing up from Reed's rivals at the end of the 1950s -- most of the blues labels put together their LPs the same way at first. But that also turns I'm Jimmy Reed into a treasure-trove of prime material from his repertory, including the songs on which he'd built his reputation over the previous five years, key among them &Honest I Do,& &Ain't That Lovin' You Baby,& &You Got Me Dizzy,& and &You Don't Have to Go,& plus their highly relevant B-sides, which help give this album more depth and breadth than a formal hits collection would have had. And in addition to Reed's singing and harp work, the album is also a superb showcase for guitarists Eddie Taylor and John Brim (the latter on the earliest material here), and drummer Earl Palmer.

I'm Jimmy Reed

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