Jimmy Dawkins: 5 Albums

Jimmy Dawkins: 5 Albums
Jimmy Dawkins - Fast Fingers - 1969 (1998) | The Jimmy Dawkins Band - Blisterstring - 1977 (1996) | Jimmy Dawkins - Blues And Pain - 1994 | Jimmy Dawkins - Hot Wire 81 - 1994 | Jimmy Dawkins - American Roots: Blues - 2002
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Biography: Chicago guitarist Jimmy Dawkins would just as soon leave his longtime nickname "Fast Fingers" behind. It was always something of a stylistic misnomer anyway; Dawkins's West Side-styled guitar slashes and surges, but seldom burns with incendiary speed. Dawkins's blues are generally of the brooding, introspective variety -- he doesn't engage in flashy pyrotechnics or outrageous showmanship. It took a long time for Dawkins to progress from West Side fixture to nationally known recording artist. He rode a Greyhound bus out of Mississippi in 1955, dressed warm to ward off the Windy City's infamous chill factor. Only trouble was, he arrived on a sweltering July day Harpist Billy Boy Arnold offered the newcomer encouragement, and he eventually carved out a niche on the competitive West Side scene (his peers included Magic Sam and Luther Allison). Sam introduced Dawkins to Delmark Records boss Bob Koester. Fast Fingers, Dawkins's 1969 debut LP for Delmark--still his best album to date--was a taut, uncompromising piece of work that won the Grand Prix du Disque de Jazz from the Hot Club of France in 1971 as the year's top album. Andrew "Big Voice" Odom shared the singing and Otis Rush the second guitar duties on Dawkins's 1971 encore All for Business. But after his Delmark LP Blisterstring, Dawkins's subsequent recordings lacked intensity until 1991's oddly titled Kant Sheck Dees Bluze for Chicago's Earwig Records. After that, Dawkins waxed discs for Ichiban and Fedora, and continued to tour extensively. Bill Dahl, All Music Guide





Jimmy Dawkins - Fast Fingers - 1969 (1998)


Lossless: 320 mb | Mp3 (Fraunhofer IIS - 320 kbps): 122 mb | Audio CD (June 16, 1998) | Original Release Date: 1969 | Number of Discs: 1 - Label: Delmark Records | Catalog Number: DD-623

Product Description: First released in 1969, after guitarist Jimmy Dawkins had served a long apprenticeship as a sideman in the Chicago electric blues scene, Fast Fingers remains one of the finest pure electric blues albums of its era. Dawkins proves to be a solid songwriter and an able singer, although the best moments on the album invariably come when he tears off a casually perfect, deeply soulful, but never showy electric solo. Highlights include the stomping instrumental "Triple Trebles," featuring an outstanding Dawkins solo over a funky horn-driven rhythm, and the mellow, laid-back opener, "It Serves Me Right to Suffer." The album was finally reissued on CD in 1998 with a new cover and two fine outtakes from the original sessions, "Sad and Blues" (which features an exceptional extended solo by Dawkins) and "Back Home Blues," which is a 1969 recording with a new (1998) vocal by Dawkins.

This debut album from 1968-69 has Dawkins' signature stinging guitar backed up by Eddie Shaw, Lafayette Leake, Might Joe Young, Joe Harper & Ernest Gatewood, inc. 1 never before released bonus cut

Review: When Fast Fingers was first released in 1969, Jimmy Dawkins was recognized as a blues guitarist on his way up. He never has received the acclaim he deserves, but this record, his debut album still holds up, and showcases a talent that we are still bless to have with us. Dawkins' style of playing is mournful but frenetic, with lost of fast runs (hence the album name, which became Dawkins' nickname) and times when his playing starts to build up like the music is going to speed up considerably, but he levels off. Songs like It Serves Me Right To Suffer, I'm Good For Nothing, I Finally Learned A Lesson, and I Don't Know What Love Is show off this skillful technique, and make you wonder why Dawkins doesn't occupy a more prominent place in the blues pantheon. Regardless, this CD is excellent, and very enjoyable for anyone who likes the blues and blues guitar.

Track Listing:

01 - It Serves Me Right To Suffer - 4:11
02 - I Wonder Why - 3:09
03 - I'm Good For Nothing - 5:16
04 - Triple Trebles - 2:47
05 - I Finally Learned A Lesson - 3:47
06 - You Got To Keep On Trying - 4:17
07 - Night Rock - 3:30
08 - Little Angel Child - 3:59
09 - I Don't Know What Love Is - 6:01
10 - Breaking Down - 5:35
11 - Sad And Blues - 4:55
12 - Back Home Blues - 3:51

Personnel:

Jimmy Dawkins - vocals, guitar

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