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Jimmy Wilson - Blues In The Alley: Selected Singles 1948-1956

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Format: CD
Rel. Date: 09/20/2024
UPC: 604988327427

Blues In The Alley: Selected Singles 1948-1956
Artist: Jimmy Wilson
Format: CD
New: Available to Order $13.28
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DISC: 1

1. Honey Bee
2. Please Believe Me
3. It's A Sin To Tell A Lie (Monologue: Scatman Crothers)
4. Mistake In Life
5. Every Dog Has His Day
6. Lemon Squeezer
7. It's Time To Change
8. Any Man's A Fool
9. Tin Pan Alley
10. Call Me A Hound Dog
11. A Woman Is To Blame
12. Blues At Sundown
13. Ethel Lee
14. Tell Me
15. Baby Don't Want Nobody But Me
16. Crying Like A Baby Child
17. Strangest Blues
18. I Used To Love A Woman
19. Teardrops On My Pillow
20. Mountain Climber
21. Louise - Jimmy Wilson
22. Send Me Your Key
23. Poor Poor Lover
24. Trouble In My House
25. Jumping From Six To Six
26. I've Found Out
27. Oh! Red
28. Blues In The Alley

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Jasmine's ongoing commitment to anthologising Post-WWII Blues and R&B continues to bring forth great collections by some of the genre's greatest names and, indeed, some of it's greatest unknowns. The subject of this CD falls into the latter category, despite enjoying a career that spanned almost a decade and a half and that introduced one of the all-time classics of North California Rhythm & Blues. Jimmy Wilson was never interviewed, and the (very) little we know about him comes from the memories of a couple of musicians who worked with him at various times. He started out as a gospel singer, but switched to R&B at the instigation of west coast producer-songwriter Bob Geddins, with whom he was closely associated in the period covered by "Blues In The AlleyMost of his records sold well locally, without crossing over to the mainstream. The one exception was Jimmy's 'signature song', the original version of the blues standard 'Tin Pan Alley' which probably sold better than all his other records combined, but which he was unable to follow up commercially in spite of making many other recordings of comparable quality. "Blues In The Alley" offers a superb overview not just of Jimmy's music, but also of the Bay Area blues scene of the early 1950s - of which Jimmy was a key component. Shortly after making the last of the sides featured here, Jimmy moved away from North California and continued recording in Louisiana. A heavy drinker, he passed away in 1966 at the age of just 42. Jasmine is delighted to refocus attention on Jimmy's recorded legacy with a collection that pulls together all the secular blues recordings that he cut with Geddins between 1948 and 1956.
        
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