Jimmy Reed


 * But the big man on Kat's Karavan was Jimmy Reed, and it remains one of my deepest regrets that II never saw him live. I may have claimed in the past that I did see him once, but if I did, I was lying (Margrave of the Marshes, pp151-152)
 * Jimmy Reed (1925-1976) was one of the generation of electric, urban blues perfomers who influenced the British rhythm and blues groups of the 1960s, as well as having US chart hits in his own right. These included "Big Boss Man" (later covered by Elvis Presley), "Baby What You Want Me To Do", "Honest I Do" (covered by the Rolling Stones), "Bright Lights, Big City" and "You Don't Have To Go" (covered by the band Peel discovered while working for KMEN in San Bernardino, The Misunderstood). Born in Mississippi, his style, marked by the repetition of basic blues chords, was more laid-back than the Chicago blues popularised by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Otis Rush and Buddy Guy. Alcoholism and illness prevented Jimmy Reed from achieving the level of fame of blues contemporaries such as Waters, Wolf and B.B. King, and he died at the age of 50
 * The above quote is one of the more unusual remarks in Margrave of the Marshes. During an early Top Gear, Peel claimed on-air that he had seen Jimmy Reed perform live in Dallas. Indeed he may have mentioned this more than once; perhaps due to his bad memory but possibly as an indication of how highly he rated the artist, for him a bluesman rivalled only by Lightnin' Hopkins. Jimmy Reed features in Peel's playlists from the Perfumed Garden in 1967 through to the shows he recorded for BBC World Service in 2004, shortly before going on holiday to Peru, and which were broadcast after his death.
 * The above quote is one of the more unusual remarks in Margrave of the Marshes. During an early Top Gear, Peel claimed on-air that he had seen Jimmy Reed perform live in Dallas. Indeed he may have mentioned this more than once; perhaps due to his bad memory but possibly as an indication of how highly he rated the artist, for him a bluesman rivalled only by Lightnin' Hopkins. Jimmy Reed features in Peel's playlists from the Perfumed Garden in 1967 through to the shows he recorded for BBC World Service in 2004, shortly before going on holiday to Peru, and which were broadcast after his death.
 * The above quote is one of the more unusual remarks in Margrave of the Marshes. During an early Top Gear, Peel claimed on-air that he had seen Jimmy Reed perform live in Dallas. Indeed he may have mentioned this more than once; perhaps due to his bad memory but possibly as an indication of how highly he rated the artist, for him a bluesman rivalled only by Lightnin' Hopkins. Jimmy Reed features in Peel's playlists from the Perfumed Garden in 1967 through to the shows he recorded for BBC World Service in 2004, shortly before going on holiday to Peru, and which were broadcast after his death.

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