Mathis James Reed, Jimmy Reed to his friends, with his original and easily accessible style influenced people like the Rolling Stones, Hank Williams Jr., but also Elvis "The Pelvis" Aaron Presley, the Yardbirds, the Animals, Them with Van Morrison, and even the Grateful Dead, among others...
He learned to play harmonica and guitar from his friend and near peer Eddie Taylor, a great electric blues player who passed away on Christmas Day in '85, but that's another story...
Jimmy then enlisted in the Navy, and when he returned home, he got married and went to work in a canned meat factory...
He signed contracts with a couple of record labels, but in the mid-1950s, he was diagnosed with what seemed like "delirium tremens," but was actually a form of epilepsy, a problem that kept him away from stages and performances, as often his wife had to help him remember the lyrics during recordings... and that's it.
Shame Shame Shame by Jimmy Reed
He learned to play harmonica and guitar from his friend and near peer Eddie Taylor, a great electric blues player who passed away on Christmas Day in '85, but that's another story...
Jimmy then enlisted in the Navy, and when he returned home, he got married and went to work in a canned meat factory...
He signed contracts with a couple of record labels, but in the mid-1950s, he was diagnosed with what seemed like "delirium tremens," but was actually a form of epilepsy, a problem that kept him away from stages and performances, as often his wife had to help him remember the lyrics during recordings... and that's it.
Shame Shame Shame by Jimmy Reed
Stanlio
27 dec 19
DeRank ™: 3,87
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