Name | Jimmy Reed |
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Background | solo_singer |
Birth name | Mathis James Reed |
Born | September 06, 1925Dunleith, Mississippi |
Died | August 29, 1976Oakland, California |
Instrument | Vocals, Harmonica, Guitar |
Genre | Blues |
Occupation | Musician, songwriter |
Years active | 1940s–1976 |
Label | Vee-Jay Records |
By the 1950s, Reed had established himself as a popular musician and joined the "Gary Kings" with John Brim, as well as playing on the street with Willie Joe Duncan. Reed failed to gain a recording contract with Chess Records, but signed with Vee-Jay Records through Brim's drummer, Albert King. At Vee-Jay, Reed began playing again with Eddie Taylor and soon released "You Don't Have to Go", his first hit record. This was followed by a long string of hits.
Reed maintained his reputation despite his rampant alcoholism; sometimes his wife had to help him remember the lyrics to his songs while recording. In 1957, Reed developed epilepsy, though the condition was not correctly diagnosed for a long time, as Reed and doctors assumed it was delirium tremens.
In spite of his numerous hits, Reed's personal problems prevented him from achieving the same level of fame as other popular blues artists of the time, though he had more hit songs than many others. When Vee-Jay Records closed down, Reed's manager signed a contract with the fledgling ABC-Bluesway label, but Reed was never able to score another hit.
In 1968 he toured Europe with the American Folk Blues Festival.
Jimmy Reed died in Oakland, California in 1976, of respiratory failure, eight days short of his 51st birthday. He is interred in the Lincoln Cemetery in Worth, Illinois.
In 1991 Reed was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The Yardbirds recorded an instrumental dedicated to him entitled "Like Jimmy Reed Again", which was released on the "definitive edition" of their album Having a Rave Up with The Yardbirds.
Van Morrison's group Them covered "Bright Lights, Big City" and "Baby, What You Want Me To Do", both of which can be found on The Story of Them Featuring Van Morrison.
"Big Boss Man" was sung regularly by Ron "Pigpen" McKernan with the Grateful Dead during the 1960s and early 1970s and appears on their live album Skull and Roses. It was revived a few times by Jerry Garcia with the Dead during the 1980s. Bob Weir of the Dead also played it a few times with Kingfish in the mid 70s, and more recently with Ratdog. Phil Lesh also plays it with Phil & Friends. The Grateful Dead have also performed Baby What You Want Me to Do with Brent Mydland on vocals.Elvis Presley recorded several of Reed's songs, scoring a 1967 hit with "Big Boss Man" and recording several performances of "Baby, What You Want Me to Do" for his 1968 Comeback TV Special. (However, Presley's 1964 hit, "Ain't That Lovin' You Baby" is a different song than that recorded by Reed.) The song "Baby, What You Want Me to Do" was also covered by Wishbone Ash on their 1972 live album, Live Dates. "Baby What You Want Me to Do" was also frequently performed by Etta James and Hot Tuna. Johnny and Edgar Winter performed the song live in 1975 and included it on Johnny and Edgar Winter Together.
Reed's recordings of "Big Boss Man" and "Bright Lights, Big City" were both voted onto the list of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
Noted Austin, Texas musicians, Omar Kent Dykes and Jimmie Vaughan released an album entitled On the Jimmy Reed Highway as a tribute to Reed.
Bill Cosby covered four of Reed's songs – "Bright Lights, Big City", "Big Boss Man", "Hush Hush" and "Aw Shucks, Hush Your Mouth" – on his 1967 album Silver Throat: Bill Cosby Sings.
Neil Young historically plays Mr Reed's music to his audience before his shows.
British punk pioneer Billy Childish and his band Thee Headcoats released an EP of Reed covers entitled The Jimmy Reed Experience on Get Hip Records in 1997.
Year !! Single !! Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs | U.S. R&B; !! Pop | |||
rowspan="4" | 1956 | Ain't That Lovin' You Baby (Jimmy Reed song)>Ain't That Lovin' You Baby" | align="center"3 || align="center" | |
"Can't Stand to See You Go" | align="center"10 || align="center" | |||
"I Don't Go for That" | align="center"12 || align="center" | |||
"I Love You Baby" | align="center"13 || align="center" | |||
rowspan="4" | 1957 | "Honest I Do"| | 4 | 32 |
"Honey, Where You Going?" | align="center"10 || align="center" | |||
"Little Rain" | align="center"7 || align="center" | |||
"The Sun is Shining" | align="center"12 || align="center"|65 | |||
1958 | "Down in Virginia"| align="center" | |||
1959 | "I Told You Baby"| | 19 | align="center"||
rowspan="3" | 1960 | "Baby What You Want Me to Do"| | 10 | 37 |
"Found Love" | align="center"16 || align="center"|88 | |||
"Hush-Hush" | align="center"18 || align="center"|75 | |||
rowspan="3" | 1961 | "Big Boss Man (song)Big Boss Man" || | 13 | 78 |
"Bright Lights, Big City (1961 song) | Bright Lights, Big City" | align="center"3 || align="center"|58 | ||
"Close Together" | align="center"||||
rowspan="2" | 1962 | "Aw Shucks, Hush Your Mouth"| align="center" | ||
"Good Lover" | align="center"||||
1963 | "Shame, Shame, Shame"| align="center" | |||
Year !! Album | ||
1958 | I'm Jimmy Reed | |
1959 | Rockin' With Reed (Collectables) | |
rowspan="2" | 1960 | Found Love |
Now Appearing | ||
1961 | Jimmy Reed at Carnegie Hall | |
1962 | Just Jimmy Reed | |
rowspan="3" | 1963 | Jimmy Reed Plays 12 String Guitar Blues |
Jimmy Reed Sings the Best of the Blues | ||
T'Ain't No Big Thing But He Is...Jimmy Reed | ||
1964 | Jimmy Reed at Soul City | |
1965 | The Legend: The Man | |
1967 | The New Jimmy Reed Album/Soulin' | |
1968 | Big Boss Man/Down in Virginia | |
1971 | Found Love | |
1974 | Best of Jimmy Reed | |
1976 | Blues Is My Business |
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