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Biography
BLP sources|date=November 2009Infobox musical artist | name = Jimmy Dawkins| image = Jimmy_Dawkins.jpg| caption = Jimmy Dawkins in March 1981| image_size = thumb| background = solo_singer| birth_name = James Henry Dawkins| alias =| birth_date = birth date and age|1936|10|24|mf=y| birth_place = Tchula, Mississippi , United States | death_date =| death_place =| instrument = Guitar, vocals| genre = Blues | occupation = Musician| years_active = Late 1960s–present| label = Delmark Records|Delmark , Storyville Records|Storyville , Earwig Music Company|Earwig Music | associated_acts =| website = James Henry "Jimmy" Dawkins (born October 24, 1936, http://books.google.com/books? id=sOKZKESWys0C& pg=PA52& dq=%22jimmy+dawkins%22+guitarist& hl=en& ei=JONkTeqHDcP48AbU2ejUBg& sa=X& oi=book_result& ct=result& resnum=4& ved=0CDwQ6AEwAw#v=onepage& q=%22jimmy%20dawkins%22%20guitarist& f=false Encyclopedia of the blues by Gérard Herzhaft, Paul Harris, Jerry Haussler, and Anton J. Mikofsky, pg 52 Tchula, Mississippi , United States ) is an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist and singer.cite web |first= |last= |url=Allmusic|class=artist|id=p27757/biography|pure_url=yes |title=Biography by Bill Dahl |publisher=Allmusic.com |accessdate=September 1, 2011 He is generally considered a part of the "West Side Sound" of Chicago blues . http://books.google.com/books? id=KeMCAAAAMBAJ& pg=PA97& dq=%22jimmy+dawkins%22+guitarist& hl=en& ei=YeRkTYOONYyt8AaFxPGDBg& sa=X& oi=book_result& ct=result& resnum=1& ved=0CCsQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage& q=%22jimmy%20dawkins%22%20guitarist& f=false New York Magazine Oct 10, 1994
Career
He moved to Chicago in 1955.cite book | first= Tony | last= Russell | year= 1997 | title= The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray | edition= | publisher= Carlton Books Limited | location= Dubai | page= 106 | isbn= 1-85868-255-X He worked in a box factory, and started to play local blues clubs, gaining a reputation as a session musician .
In 1969, thanks to the efforts of his friend Magic Sam , he released his first album Fast Fingers on Delmark Records , winning the "Grand Prix du Disque" from the Hot Club de France . http://books.google.com/books? id=i0yjZiHcS6MC& pg=PA316& dq=%22jimmy+dawkins%22+magic& hl=en& ei=GuVkTaraJ4P68AaY-cTxBg& sa=X& oi=book_result& ct=result& resnum=8& ved=0CFMQ6AEwBw#v=onepage& q=%22jimmy%20dawkins%22%20magic& f=false Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who ... by Ted Gioia, pg 316 In 1971 Delmark released his second album All For Business with singer, Andrew "Big Voice" Odom, and the guitarist, Otis Rush . Dawkins also toured in the late 1970s backed up by James Solberg (of Luther Allison and The Nighthawks fame) on guitar and Jon Preizler ( The Lamont Cranston Band , The Drifters ), a Seattle based Hammond organ|Hammond B-3 player known for his soulful jazz influenced style. Other musicians that toured with Jimmy Dawkins in the late 1970s were Jimi Schutte (drummer), Sylvester Boines (bass), Rich Kirch and Billy Flynn (musician)|Billy Flynn (guitars). With this combination of musicians Dawkins also toured Europe.
Dawkins began to tour in Europe and Japan and recorded more albums in the United States and Europe. Dawkins also contributed a column to the blues magazine Living Blues . In the 1980s he released few recordings, but began his own record label, Leric Records, and was more interested in promoting other artists, including Taildragger, Queen Sylvia Embry, Little Johnny Christian and Nora Jean Wallace.
Discography
Fast Fingers (1969) - Delmark Records
All For Business (1971) - Delmark Records
Jimmy Dawkins (1971)
Tribute To Orange (1971)
Transatlantic 770 (1972)
I Want To Know (1975)
Blisterstring (1976) - Delmark Records
Come Back Baby (1976)
''Hot Wire '81 (1981) - Recorded in Paris with Jimi Schutte, Sylvester Boines and Rich Kirch
Jimmy and Hip: Live! (1982)
Feel The Blues (1985)
All Blues (1986)
Blues From Iceland (1991)
Kant Sheck Dees Bluze (1992) - Earwig Music Company
Blues And Pain (1994) http://books.google.com/books? id=sScEAAAAMBAJ& pg=PA132& dq=%22jimmy+dawkins%22+guitarist& hl=en& ei=JONkTeqHDcP48AbU2ejUBg& sa=X& oi=book_result& ct=result& resnum=9& ved=0CFcQ6AEwCA#v=onepage& q=%22jimmy%20dawkins%22%20guitarist& f=false JazzTimes, pg 132
B Phur Real (1995)
Me, My Gitar & The Blues (1997)
Jimmy and Hip Live! (1999) - Live album originally recorded with Hip Linkchain in Champaign, Illinois , in 1982cite web|url=Allmusic|class=album|id=jimmy-and-hip-live-r631745|pure_url=yes |title=Allmusic ((( Jimmy and Hip Live! > Overview )))
American Roots (2002)
West Side Guitar Hero (2002)
Tell Me Baby (2004)
References
Reflist
Source
Sharp, Steven, March/April 1993, 'Jimmy Dawkins: Deep Into The Feelings', Living Blues , Vol. 108
External links
http://www.joes-corner.de/Dawkins/biography/biography.htm Jimmy Dawkins Biography at Joes-corner.de
http://hem.fyristorg.com/bukka/dawhem.html Jimmy Dawkins information at Fyristorg.com
Persondata | NAME =Dawkins, Jimmy | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION =American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist and singer. | DATE OF BIRTH =October 24, 1936 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Tchula, Mississippi , United States | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Dawkins, Jimmy Category:1936 births Category:Living people Category:people from Holmes County, Mississippi Category:Chicago blues musicians Category:American blues guitarists Category:American blues musicians Category:American blues singers Category:Musicians from Mississippi Category:Delmark Records artists
