Jimmy Dawkins
Chicago guitarist Jimmy Dawkins would have preferred to leave his longtime nickname "Fast Fingers" behind. It was always something of a stylistic misnomer anyway; Dawkins' West Side-styled guitar slashed and surged, but seldom burned with incendiary speed. Dawkins' blues were generally of the brooding, introspective variety -- he didn'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, dressing warmly 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' 1969 debut LP for Delmark -- which remained his best album -- 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' 1971 encore, All for Business. But after his Delmark LP Blisterstring, Dawkins' 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 until health problems slowed him down. Jimmy Dawkins passed away April 10, 2013.
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Diskografie
15 Album, -en • Geordnet nach Bestseller
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West Side Guitar Hero
Blues - Erschienen bei Fedora Records am 05.02.2002
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Tell Me Baby
Blues - Erschienen bei Fedora Records am 03.02.2004
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Hot Wire 81Blues Power
Blues - Erschienen bei Isabel Records am 26.12.2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Feel the Blues 2014 Remix
Blues - Erschienen bei JSP Records am 04.08.2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Born In Poverty
Blues - Erschienen bei Disques Black & Blue am 01.07.2002
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Chicago Blues Nights Vol. 2
Blues - Erschienen bei Storyville Records am 20.01.1995
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Classic Chicago Studio Session 1982
Blues - Erschienen bei JSP ORIGINALS am 12.09.2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Chicago Blues Box 2, Vol. 3
Blues - Erschienen bei Storyville am 27.10.2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
I Want To Know
Blues - Erschienen bei Storyville Records am 20.07.1999
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Come Back Baby (Live In Chicago)
Blues - Erschienen bei Storyville am 20.03.1995
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Kant Sheck Dees Bluze
Soul - Erschienen bei Earwig Music am 19.07.2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Chicago Blues Nights Vol. 1
Blues - Erschienen bei Storyville Records am 20.01.1995
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo