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add("Fast Fingers","Fast Fingers Delmark DS-623 Delmark DD-623 1969 Jimmy Dawkins´Eddie Shaw Lafayette Leake Mighty Joe Young Joe Harper Ernest Gatewood Lester Dorsie It serves me right to suffer I wonder why I´m good for nothing Triple trebles I finally learned a lesson You got to keep on trying Night rock Little angel child I don´t know what love is Breaking down Sad And Blues Back Home Blues","Fast Fingers is Jimmy Dawkins first solo album. He´d played on some other Delmark releases, but now he headed his own group. This is a good album, but it kind of feels like its´s a Sixties folk blues album, e.g. the market for the album is not the black community but the students at Chicago University. But there are moments of pure enjoyment here! It´s Dawkins first solo album, it´s a solid blues album and it might be the most West Side Jimmy ever recorded.")
add("All for business","All for business Delmark DS-634 DE-634 Jimmy Dawkins Big Voice Odom Otis Rush Jim Conley Sonny Thompson Ernest Gatewood Robert Charles Hicks 1971 All for business Cotton country Moon man Down so long Welfare blues Having such a hard time Sweet home Chicago Born in poverty Jammin´ with Otis Hippies playground","All for business is one of the classic albums in blues history. Recorded October 27 and November 1 in 1971 you can feel the dark and cold autumn weather when you listen to the album. The band is hard-core Chicago and Jimmy Dawkins gives ample proof of why he was considered as on of the best guitar players in Chicago at the time. Jimmy plays in his concentrated, yet fluid, style. He hadn´t yet started to break up his playing as he did a couple of years later. This is the Fast Fingers who´s playing.")
add("Jimmy Dawkins","Jimmy Dawkins Vogue LDM 301.49 Vogue VG 671 670417 Chicago on my mind Living the Blues 1971 Jimmy Dawkins Mickey Baker George Arvanitas Jacky Sanson Michel Denis The way she walks Lick for licks Don´t bring me your troubles baby I wonder why you do things you do to me Let me have my way Chicago on my mind I´ve been walking all night long Blues in the ghetto Out of business","1971 Jimmy Dawkins went to Europe and when he was in Paris he took the time to record this album. The band is 2/3 French, the only American player is Mickey Baker on guitar. The liner notes tells it all: Even the less informed listener will understand, in hearing thiscollection, the extent that this music, so charged with emotion and contained violence, corresponds to the mixed feelings of frustration and hope of theblack population of the great American cities. Well, well. Anyway I kind of like this album, in my opinion it´s one of the best of Dawkins European albums.")
add("Tribute to orange","Tribute to Orange Black & Blue 33.038 33.538 & 33.556 Black & Blue 59.556-2 Evidence ECD 26031-2 33.510 1971 Jimmy Dawkins Gatemouth Brown Cousin Joe Mac Thompson Ted Harvey Off business (5,54) You´ve got to keep trying (6.08) Ain´t never had nothing (3.11) Born in poverty (4.36) Marcelle Morgantini´s cassoulet (6.00) Your love (3.25) Tribute to Orange (4.21) Mississippi bound (6.30) Off business (take 1) Instrumental shuffle (3:32) Life Is a Mean Mistreater (6:08) Mean Atlantic Ocean (5:41) Marcelle Jacques et Luc (3:53) It Serves You Right to Suffer (3:39) Ode to Billie Joe (2:59)","Jimmy won an award for Fast Fingers, an award he got in the French town Orange. This album, recorded during an European tour in November 1971, is Dawkins tribute to the town. When I bought this very ugly looking LP, I had high expectations. After listening to the album for the first time I was very very disappointed and I still am! I almost can´t stand to listen to this album. Let me state that Jimmy Dawkins is great on the album. He plays excellent fluent guitar with a nasty sound and his singing is also among his best. It´s the band that gets to me. They are the worst band, by far, I heard back Jimmy Dawkins. Especially Gatemouth Brown on rhythm guitar and Cousin Joe on piano manage to destroy every good intention Jimmy Dawkins has. This could have been such a good album! Buy it for Jimmy's sake. Listen to the guitar. Try to forget the band. I can´t and that´s why I can´t listen to the album.")
add("Transatlantic 770","Transatlantic 770. Excello 8024. 1972 Jimmy Dawkins: g,v. Joe Jammer: g. Bubbles White: g(1). Pete Wingfield: p,org. Novelle Williams: org (5). Tony Stevens: b. Bob Brunning: b (5). Reggie Isidore: d. Chris Mercer: ts,org (3). Cecil Moss: trumpet. Billy Graham: trombone. Dick Party: ts,bs. Mike vernon: perc. Voices: Rosa Dotson, Velma Smith, Novelle Williams. Things I used to do (3.07) Make my way in this world (4.30) Think twice before you speak (3.20) 1011 Woodland (3.44) The mighty hawk (4.58) All for business (5.40) High cost of living (2.32) Stoned dead (4.18) Love and understanding (4.30) No more trouble (3.16)","The Excello record deal proved to be a big disappointment in Jimmy's career. This album is recorded in London with around twenty musicians, producers and others involved. I guess Excello had a plan for Dawkins, but that Jimmy never fitted in to them. Transatlantic 770 is overproduced and after Delmark´s solid blues albums this one feels experimental and freaked out. Too bad. The signs of something good is there. Jimmy´s guitar are at times brilliant and his voice is really good.")
add("Montreux Blues Festival","Montreux Blues Festival. Excello 28026 [8 tracks on Anthology] 1972. Jimmy Dawkins: v,g. Louis Myers, g. David Myers, b, Lafayette Leake, p. Fred Below, d. Casino trick stick (2.50) Five long years (4.47) Dust my broom / Sweet home Chicago (5.06) Whole lotta lovin´ (3.02) I´m gonna move to the outskirts of town (7,40) You don´t love me (3.00) Close down boogie (2.22)","Jimmy Dawkins is backed by the Aces and Lafayette Leake on piano, and they do a great job. In fact, outside the three Delmark albums, this is the best back up band Jimmy had on record in the seventies. The Myers brothers and Fred Below really knows how to play a shuffle so it swings. Kent Ersson in Jefferson 34 says Louis Myers complained that Jimmy played too loud and that the band was heavily delayed so that half of the audience already had gone home when the show started. But as Kent Ersson also says, as a listener you can´t tell there are any tensions in the band. The music is real good. What you maybe can feel, is that since the songs are quite short, the half filled concert arena didn´t rocket Jimmy´s playing to the stars. The Excello album is still the best live album by Jimmy (I haven´t heard All Blues). The two MCM albums could have been fantastic, the band is awesome, but somehow the real magic is only partly there. There might not have been magic in the air in Montreux either, but you could expect at least Siegfried and Roy to walk in...")
add("Jimmy Dawkins - Big Voice Odom","Jimmy Dawkins - Big Voice Odom.Black & Blue 33.510 [LP]=Evidence ECD 26031-2 [CD]. 1974 Jimmy Dawkins: vcl-1, gtr (except -3); Andrew Big Voice Odom, vcl-2; Otis Rush, gtr; Jerome Van Jones, org (except -4); James Green, bs; Bob Plunkett, dms Come to me Sweet Laura No more troubles Tell me woman Don't ever leave me alone Ode to Billie Joe It serves you right to suffer Life is a mean mistreater -1 Marcelle Jacques et Luc Mean Atlantic Ocean","Dawkins shared this album with Big Voice Odom. The Dawkins tracks are also released on the Tribute to Orange cd.")
add("I want to know","I want to know. MCM 900.290 [LP]=Storyville STCD 8048 [CD]. 1975. Jimmy Dawkins, vcl, gtr; Jimmy Johnson, gtr; Sylvester Boines, bs; Tyrone Smith [=Centuray?], dms; Andrew Big Voice Odom, vcl-1 I want to know (8.58) Rock me baby (5.00) I wonder why (4.39) Cold sweet blues (7.10) Driving wheel (5.30) Will my baby be home tonight (5.38) The way she walks (CD) I have been mistreated (CD) Are you ready -1 (CD)","Jimmy Dawkins was among the first who Marcelle Morgantini recorded during her Chicago visits. Jimmy´s band at this time, featuring Jimmy Johnson on guitar, Sylvester Boines on bass and Tyrone Smith (prob. Centuray) on drums, was the toughest and meanest and funkiest bluesband at the time. Jimmy and the band excelled in funky workouts and blue minor key masterpieces. This album was recorded October 16th 1975 at Ma Bea´s and it´s better than the other MCM album Jimmy recorded one year later, mostly because Jimmy and the band works together and because the music is more varied. But, I wouldn´t want to be without the almost bizarre guitar tone in Come back, baby")
add("Blisterstring","Blisterstring. Delmark DS-641 [LP]=Delmark DE-641 [CD]. 1976 Jimmy Dawkins: g,v. Jimmy Johnson: g. Sylvester Boines: b. Tyrone Centuray: d. Sonny Thompson: p. Feel so bad (7.30) Blue monday (4.33) Chitlins con carne (3.46) If you´re ready (4.58) Blues with a feeling (5.46) Ode to Billie Joe (4.32) Welfare line (7.47) She got the Blues too (only on CD) (6.55) Shuffling the blues (only on CD) (4.45) Peeple will talk (only on CD) (6.10) Sea of luv (only on CD) (3.42)","In 1976 Jimmy Dawkins returned to the Delmark label. The credits for this must go to the albums producer Steve Tomashefsky. He even was ready to pay for the sessions if Bob Koester didn´t like the recordings. The goal with the recordings was to capture how the Jimmy Dawkins band sounded live at the time. If you compare this album with the actual live recordings available from the same time I can´t say the goal is achieved - luckily enough! The live recordings are full of lengthy guitar solos over slow shuffles. Not too inspiring... Blisterstring on the other hand showcases the whole band, not just Jimmy´s guitar. Jimmy Johnson plays excellent rhythm guitar, Sonny Thompson´s piano fits surprisingly well and Sylvester Boines and Tyrone Centuray is a driving solid funky blues rhythm section. I think this is the best band Jimmy Dawkins ever had. This is a complex album. The first time I heard it, on the ugly yellow and grey vinyl, I didn´t like it. The wahwah effects, the at first hand sloppy backup and Jimmy´s hoarse voice - it all seemed as a big disappointment. Today I think this is the most interesting and most exciting and actually the best album Jimmy Dawkins ever made.")
add("Come back baby","Come back baby. MCM 900.295 [LP]=Storyville STCD 8035 with 4 added tracks [CD]. 1976 Jimmy Dawkins: g,v. Richard Kirch: g. Jimmy Johnson: g (on track 6). Sylvester Boines: b. Tyrone Centuray, d. Come back baby (5.49) I got wise (8.35) Cross road blues (5.54) Blue Shadows Falling (5.23) Hard road to travel (6.48) Ode to Billie Joe (8.06) Big Duke's J.D.'s Jam Nature Ball Pretty Woman","November 10th. 1976. Out from the studio - in to Big Duke´s. Richard Kirch on guitar. Sylvester Boines on bass and Tyrone Centuray on drums - and Jimmy Dawkins on guitar and vocals. This could have been great. This could have been an epic album! If there had been some people other than the recording engineers in the club... if the band had talked over which songs they´re going to play...What´s left is Dawkins´ Guitar - and this takes the album a long way. I wouldn´t be without this album, but I haven´t bought the CD-reisssues on Storyville. If you´re a Dawkins fan(atic) you should have at least one of his 70´s live recordings.")
add("Hot Wire 81","Hot wire 81. Isabel 900.508 [LP]=Evidence ECD 26043-2 [CD] 1981. Jimmy Dawkins: g,v. Richard Kirch: g. Sylvester Boines: b. James Schutte: d. You just a babychild (6.00) Ruff times (5.40) Welfare line (8.30) Kold actions (7.25) Roc-kin-sole (5.10) Peepers music (4.50) My way (5.15)","After Come back baby Jimmy Dawkins stopped recording and cut down on his touring. It´d take five years before he returned to a recording studio. The odds that this should be a good album where not high. It´s done during an European tour with very little time in the studio. One fact that turns it into such a good album is the band, Richard Kirch and Sylvester Boines, both who had played with him for years and Jimi Schutte on drums. On this albums Jimmy os softer than never before. The fast finger guitar with a killer tone is gone. Now Jimmy plucks the strings with his bare hands and the tone is relatively soft. Instead it´s his voice which is the important factor. Never before or after have I enjoyed Jimmy's singing more than on this album. The liner notes by Armand Meignan tells it all: Dawkins has no wish whatsoever to dazzle, he possesses the highest degree of the art of eloquence and relevance.")
add("American livin blues festival 1982","American Livin Blues festival Paris Album C 3346/7 EPM FDC 5513 [CD] 1982.Jimmy Dawkins: g,v. Rich Kirch: g. Larry Martin: g. Sylvester Boines: b. Jimmy Schutte: d. Abb Locke: ts. Don´t ch´a wanna know (4.28) Sound of the West side (5.26) Paris Jam (9.35)","Not much to say of these tracks. They are recorded during an European tour in 1982. Richard Kirch, Larry Martin, g, Sylvester Boines, b, Abb Locke, sax and Jimmie Schutte drums backs Jimmy Dawkins. These tracks shows Jimmy Dawkins still could play raw and hot guitar. The sound is not as tough as it could be, although Jimmy's attack is powerful.")
add("Feel the blues","Feel the blues. JSP 1093 [LP]=JSP CD 206 with 2 tracks added from anthology JSP 1097=JSP CD 282 1985. Jimmy Dawkins: v,g. Rick Kirch: g. Professor Eddie Lusk: keyb. Fred Barnes: b. Michael Scott, d. Nora Jean Wallace: v(5). J.T Burks: hca(2). Feel the blues (4.46) Highway man blues (7.52) Last days (8.20) (If you got to) Love somebody (6.10) Christmas time blues (5.19) Have a little mercy (8.12) We got go (5.30) So good to me (6.30) So Good to me (alt take) (5.16)","In 1984 Jimmy got a contract with John Stedman, owner of the English JSP label. JSP, just as Black & Blue in the Seventies, have been accused of recording some pretty bad stuff. JSP should though have credit for recording several artists who shamefully enough didn´t have record contracts elsewhere, e.g. Buddy Guy, Jimmy Dawkins, Lefty Dizz, Carey Bell and many more. JSP also was one of the first blues labels which foresighted the CD-revolution. Jimmy Dawkins JSP album is unfortunately not one of the better albums on JSP, and it´s definitely not one of Jimmy Dawkins strongest albums.")
add("All blues","All Blues. JSP 1102. [LP] 1985. Jimmy Dawkins: g,v. Phil Guy, g. Professor Eddie Lusk, p, kbd. Fred Barnes. b. Michael Scott, d.(If you got to) Love somebody Easy baby That's all right I feel so bad You don't love me Dust my blues jam","I haven´t heard this live album, but the reviews I read weren´t positive.")
add("Blue ice","Blue ice. Platonic 001=Evidence ECD 26064-2 [5 tracks on CD] 1991. Jimmy Dawkins: v,g. Halldor Bragason: g. Gudmundur Petursson: g. Harald Thorsteinsson: b. Åsgir Oskarsson: d. Johann Hjörleifsson: d. Feel so bad (5.20) Welfare line (7.36) That´s alright (6.36) You don´t love me (4.08) Nightlife (8.35)","Jimmy´s comeback! Recorded during an Icelandic tour this is Jimmy´s first recorded tracks in a long time. The most interesting thing about this album is that Jimmy have found his guitar again. After ten years of thumbplucking Jimmy attacked the guitar as in his younger days. The songs reflects a typical Jimmy Dawkins show, some classics and an original or two in between. The band is a local icelandic one and they do a good job, their leadguitarist is inspired of the great white english guitar heroes")
add("Kant sheck dees bluze","Kant sheck dees bluze. Earwig 4920 CD=Blue Sting CD 024. 1991 Jimmy Dawkins: g,v. Nora Jean Wallace: v(4,8). Professor Eddie Lusk: p,org. Johnny b. Gayden: b. Billy Flynn: g. Ray Scott: g. I ain´t got it (4.14) Rockin D. Blues (5.51) Made the hard way (5.51) A love like that (4.08) Kant sheck dees bluze (9.09) Gittar rapp (4.55) Too bad baby (4.30) My man loves me (4.13) Get on the ball (5.10) Wes cide bluze (4.57) Beetin nockin ringin (7.08) Luv sumbody (4.02) Gotta hold on (6.10)","Jimmy Dawkins recorded a couple of more albums, on the English JSP label, in the eighties. I haven´t heard the live album, but the studio album was for me a big disappointment. After the JSP sessions Jimmy stopped recording and concentrated instead on his newly formed record label, Leric. The first signs of his return to the living (well, at least his return to recording) was the live recordings he cut during an Iceland tour in 1991. The same year Jimmy went into a studio in Chicago with Eddie Lusk on organ, Johnny B. Gayden on bass, Billy Flynn on guitar and Ray Scott on drums, and the result is what I´m going to review. It´s all recorded on one day, June 18, 1991, and as a listener you can notice that. There don´t seem to be no time for rehearsing, second takes or talking the session over. It´s a get into the studio and play your ass off feeling. I read this is how Jimmy Dawkins likes to record, get in the studio and blast off. The band works, but they´re not very exciting")
add("Blues and Pain","Blues and pain. Ichiban DOG 9108-2. 1994. Jimmy Dawkins: v,g. Ray Scott: d. Bryan Cole: d. Lebron Scott: b. Wayne Goins: g. Steve Mcray: keyb. Ted Dortch: ts(4). Ernie Baker: trumpet(4). Right to quit you (3.54) No pain (5.45) Blues and soul (3.31) Lonely guitar man (5.17) Fool in heah (5.38) Gitar jive (4.20) Know your lover (4.38) Driftin` sand (3.52) Down with the blues (6.44) Who done it (3.53)","When I saw this album I immediately fell in love! Jimmy Dawkins is standing against a brick wall, looking mean and bitter at the same time. It´d take three year for Jimmy to record again after the Earwig deal. This time he did it on the small Atlanta based label Wild Dog. I was afraid this was going to be another I got hair on my chest I´d like to show it album like Kant sheck dees bluze. Luckily enough this is not the case here. In fact this is not only a good album, it´s in my opinion one of the best albums Jimmy Dawkins made!")
add("B Phur Real","B Phur Real. Wild Dog 9110-2. 1995. Jimmy Dawkins: v,g. LeBron Scott: b. Wayne Goins: g (solo on 8). Henry Parrilla: p. Bryan Cole: d. John Reid: hornarrangements. Nick Longo: sax. John Longo: sax. Two timin´ lover (5.20) Lonesome blues (6.03) It ain´t love (6.14) B phur real (8.44) Walk with me (4.58) Begging business (3.44) You got it, baby (7.20) Can´t hide my love (5.09)","Only a year after Blues and Pain was released Jimmy had a new album out. I bought the album with the last nickels deep down in my pocket, I was totally broke. Was it worth living on water and bread for two weeks? No! I could had saved my money and bought food instead. B phur Real is not as good as Blues and Pain. The songs are generally too long and the organ is often replaced with a piano. The production of the album is at the same time tougher and lighter. Jimmy's guitar is higher mixed and the drums are a little heavier, but at the same time the piano gives the production more air.")
add("Me, my guitar and the blues","Me, my guitar and the Blues. Ichiban D2-24909-2. 1997. Jimmy Dawkins: v,g .Francine Reed: v (track 3). Lebron Scott: b. Mike Lorenz: g. Steve McCray: kbd. Frank Amato: kbd (3,6). Bryan Cole: d. Back to school (4.58) You don´t want me (4.27) Down, down baby (3.22) I´m running (6.07) Tuff girl (4.56) Me, my guitar and the Blues (6.48) Jimmy´s bag (3.38) True love (6.11) Back street blues (3.48) Cold as hell (4.52)","This album is stone heavy. When I first heard it I was confused, but after playing it loud a couple of times I began to realize the albums potential. This album really is what all of Dawkins last outputs have pointed towards at. Down-home heavy shuffles with drums that´ll shake if not your soul at least your ribs. Sometimes that´s enough.")
add("West Side Guitar Hero","West Side Guitar Hero Fedora FCD 5022. Fresno 2002 Jimmy Dawkins- vocals/guitar; Franck Goldwasser- guitar; John Suhr- organ; Henry Oden- bass; Chris Millar- drums. Alley Mae (7.25) Jammin' Gitar (4.08) go On Baby 6.40) I'm What U Need (4.47) Sweet Li'l Mama (6.33) Everybody's Jumping (5.52) Dollar Head Woman (4.59) Wess Cide Rock (4.45) Shee Leff Me (5.03) So Wurrid (3.04) U Made Me Luv U (4.28)","Me, My Guitar and the Blues was released in 1997. Ever since that album there has been rumours of a new album. I heard from Jimmy himself he had one more on his Ichiban-deal - and then the word was that the new album would be full of surprises. After Jimmy had played some gigs with ZZ Top and other famous rock/blues acts I feared Jimmy would do a Buddy Guy - invite rockstars to sell more. And now the new cd is finally out. Fedora has a good reputation in producing both inspired and well sounded albums and this cd is no exception. Recorded in Fresno in late October 2001 with for me totally unknown band members, now I found out that Frank Goldwasser is more known under the name Paris Slim and have played with all the blues stars on the West Coast. The drummer Chris Millar is also quite known, in an interview on the Internet he is recognized as California´s Blues Ambassador. The band is solid, It´s not blues bordering to rock as was the case on the Ichiban/Wild Dog recordings, I especially enjoy Goldwasser´s smooth and clean guitar which reminds me of some of the best rhythmguitarists from around 1980. But I´m not entirely happy with the backup. They never get in Jimmy´s way. It´s a white band, they give perfect support and follows Jimmy´s every intentions as close as if they where his shadows. I´d preferred if they had dared to push Jimmy more. If Franck had turned his amp to eleven and played a solo when Jimmy had thought to take one. I like when Jimmy is pushed, when he´s challenged. His guitar, if not with as distorted tone as on Wild Dog, is the uglypart, but without a band who is kicking Jimmy´s balls, pardon the expression, it just at most times stays at the good level and rarely gives you the featherly chill along your spine which makes you forget time and space and which for me is the quintessence of listening to Dawkins. But these magic parts is here and on track 5 and 6 everything comes together. There is also a serious West Side feeling on this album. The title is not entirely misleading!")
add("American Roots","Lonesome Blues Begging Business Can't Hide My Love Down, Down Baby (featuring Francine Reed) Me, My Gitar And The Blues Cold As Hell Right To Quit You Lonely Guitar Man Know Your Lover Down With The Blues","A collection of Dawkins´ three Ichiban albums from the 1990´s. For individual comments on each song, please look at the separate cd´s. As always a collection seldom is larger than it´s parts. Lonely Guitar Man is still the best song Jimmy have recorded since the first song on Hot Wire 81.")
add("Can´t sit down","Can´t sit down JSP 1097 [LP] The tracks also on JSP CD 206 and JSP CD 282 with one alternate take [CD]., 1984. Released 1986 Jimmy Dawkins: v,g. Rick Kurch: g. Professor Eddie Lusk: keyb. Fred Barnes: b. Michael Scott, d. Nora Jean Wallace: v(2)We got go 5.30)So Good to me (6.30)","These tracks appeared on a JSP-sampler. They are as mediocre as the album Feel the Blues.")
add("Chicago Blues Nights vol. 1","Chicago Blues Nights MCM 900.306 [LP] = Storyville STCD 8032 [CD]. Two tracks on anthology. Chicago 10 Nov. 1976. Released 1987? Jimmy Dawkins: g,v. Richard Kirch: g. Sylvester Boines: b. Tyrone Centuray, d. Welfare Line You don´t love me","These tracks appeared on a MCM-sampler in the eighties. They are recorded at the same time and place as the album Come back, baby. Again, I´m amazed at the bad judgement MCM had when they choose tracks for that Lp. These two tracks on the sampler should have replaced a couple of the tracks. We should be thankful that there now are six bonustracks from the Come back session, six tracks which almost all are better than the tracks on the Lp!")
add("Jimmy and Hip Live","Live! (Rumble RR 1003). [LP] 1982. Hip Linkchain, v. 1-4, g, Jimmy Dawkins v. 5-6, g, Rich Kirch, g,Danny Myers, Mark Rubell, b, Ralph Lapetino kbd, Bob Richey, Moe Baker,d 1. Mother-In-Law Blues 2. Bloodstain On The Walls 3. Hideaway 4. Little Red Rooster 5. Sounds Of West Side Chicago 6. Boogie Chillun","Jimmy shares the album with the great Hip Linkchain. The Lp is more Hip´s than Dawkins´. Jimmy really just have two tracks, Sounds of West Side and Boogie Chillun. Jimmy also plays guitar on Little Red Rooster. The sound quality is Ok, although I´ve heard better! Jimmy is in great shape! He seems real angry with something! Too bad there´s only one real Jimmy Dawkins track and even that one is faded out. If there hade been 8 Jimmy Dawkin songs with this attitude the album would have been lethal, but now you it would have been better as a single with one track from each artist. Hip Linkchain seems to enjoy his set more, but I think he´s better on the live MCM from the seventies or on his studio albums.")
add("Tell me baby","Tell me baby. Fedora FCD 5032 Jimmy Dawkins: v,g. Frank Goldwasser; g, Rich Kirch: g, John Suhr: organ, Danny Camarena: b, Roger Perry: g, b, kbd, Chris Millar, d. Tell Me Baby (5.04) Falling Tears (6.29) Kotten Field Jump (4.09) Mean O´ Blues (5.41) Gitar King (4.45) Mid Nite Boogie (5.38) Tired Of Krying (4.44) Bring It Back (4.59) Rumping n Stomping (6.57) Hard Life Blues (7.39)","On the second album on Fedora I hoped for a tougher and more gritty sound and atmosphere - and overall these goals are accomplished on the new cd. Tell me, baby has a more down to earth feeling than the first Fedora release. The backup band is tighter and plays with more fire. Especially the two rhythm guitarist does a great job, elegantly interweaving their playing. The material is much like a typical Jimmy Dawkins concert. In fact, for the first time on a studio album Jimmy plays the typical Hooker/ Magic Sam boogie he does live. In all songs Jimmy and the band tries to find a groove and feeling as the song goes on - sometimes they succeed and sometimes they fail. Not the best way to do a thoughtful session, but that´s the way Jimmy works. I am a little disappointed with the guitar sound. To get that typical Jimmy Dawkins guitar, the amplifier must be turned way up. Here the guitar is a bit unclear and subdued - if you can use such a term for Jimmy´s guitar playing…. As I listen to it, I sense a real seventies feeling in the songs and productions. This album is a step forward from the first Fedora release, it´s more intense and has a darker feeling, but I can´t really say what I think of it. In some ways I find it more interesting than good. There are some moments of a sad weakness which gets to me and I really can´t explain exactly what it is.")
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