Jimmy "Fast Fingers" Dawkins: Fast Fingers-1970's Delmark 2nd Edition Stereo LP

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Used 1970's "Roots of Jazz" Series 2nd Edition Reissue of Classic Delmark Debut Release of Bandleader/Composer/Master Guitarist/Blues Vocalist Jimmy Dawkins Entitled Fast Fingers, Album Production & Supervision by Robert G. Koester, Recording by Dave Antler at Sound Studios Inc, All Compositions Written by Jimmy Dawkins - "Chicago guitarist Jimmy Dawkins would have preferred to leave his longtime nickname "Fast Fingers" behind. It was always something of a stylistic misnomer anyway; Dawkins' West Side-styled guitar slashed and surged, but seldom burned with incendiary speed. Dawkins' blues were generally of the brooding, introspective variety -- he didn'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, dressing warmly 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' 1969 debut LP for Delmark -- which remained his best album -- 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' 1971 encore, All for Business. But after his Delmark LP Blisterstring, Dawkins' 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 until health problems slowed him down. Jimmy Dawkins passed away April 10, 2013." - "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." - Sensational Personnel for the Large Group Features Legendary Composer Jimmy Dawkins on Guitar and Vocals, the Amazing Mighty Joe Young on Additional Guitar, the Brilliant Eddie Shaw on Tenor Sax, the Great Lafayette Leake on Piano, Joe Harper or Ernest Gatewood on Bass & Lester Dorsie on Drums! - Selections on Side A Are It Serves Me Right to Suffer, I Wonder Why, I'm Good for Nothing, Triple Trebles(Instrumental) and I Finally Learned a Lesson - Tracks for Side B Consist of you Got to Keep on Trying, Night Rock(Instrumental), Little Angel Child, I Don't Know what Love Is & Breaking Down(Instrumental) - Used Copy, Cover Very Good++, Side A Has some Light Surface Wear, Side B Has One Light Scuff and Some Light Surface Wear - Stereo Recording, Product Code DS-623 - California Residents Add 9.75% Sales Tax - International S & H Extra -

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