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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

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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 Dawkins songs with this attitude the album would have been lethal, but now 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.

• Little Red Rooster
  Hip Linkchain sings and Jimmy gets a short uninspired solo. Nothing exciting.
  
• Sounds of West Side Chicago
  Jesus! After Hip Linkchain's soundwise kind of mellow tracks, Jimmy blasts off with an incredibly loud and mean guitar. Jimmy wails and groans in unison with the heavy West Side chords, although you can hardly hear him since the guitar is so LOUD. He hammers the fretboard at the end when there´s a keyboard solo, but unfortunately the song is faded right then. If you compare this with the bland efforts on JSP at the same time you wonder if it´s the same person who plays. Here Jimmy is aggresseive, tough and forceful.
• Boogie Chillun
  No finesse! A hard driving Hooker Boogie beat and Jimmy´s distorted guitar. After one minute Jimmy goes feedback and plays tremolonotes, feedbacks and hits an ugly chord. It´s an instrumental. Nothing really happens in the song. One chord. One riff and the song is faded out after awhile.