Biography

Guitarist Jimmy Reed's laid-back style remains one of the friendliest entry points into the blues. His low-volume electric approach, though relatively quiet, was rhythmically relentless; in the 1950s he was one of the prime architects of the style known as the blues shuffle, which was a key building block of rock music. (The Who, Neil Young, and legions of other rockers are deeply indebted to Reed's sound.) Along the way, Reed also exerted a pivotal influence on the British blues boom of the mid-1960s.

Top Tracks

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• Ain't No Big Deal

• Ain't No Time For Fussin'

• Ain't Nobody's Business

• Ain't That Lovin' You Baby

• Ain't That Lovin' You, Baby

• Aw Shucks, Hush Your Mouth

• Baby Lee

• Baby What You Want Me To Do

• Baby, What You Want Me To Do

• Big Boss Man

• Big Fine Girl

• Big Legged Woman

• Boogie Chillen'

• Boom Boom

• Born Under A Bad Sign

• Bright Lights Big City

• Bright Lights, Big City

• Can't Stand To Leave

• Can't Stand To See You Go

• Close Together

• Cold And Lonesome

• Crawlin' King Snake

• Dimples

• Down In Mississippi

• Down In Virginia

• Ends And Odds

• Found Love

• Get Out Of My Life Woman

• Going To New York

• Good Lover

• Hard Walkin' Hanna

• High And Lonesome

• Hobo Blues

• Honest I Do

• House Rent Boogie

• Hush Hush

• Hush Your Mouth

• Hush, Hush

• I Ain't Got You

• I Just Want To Make Love To You

• I'll Change That Too

• I'm Gonna Get My Baby

• Jimmy's Rock

• Just Can't Sleep At Night

• No Rollin' Blues

• Over The Hump

• Shame Shame Shame

• Shame! Shame! Shame!

• Shame, Shame, Shame

• Spoonful

• Stormy Monday

• Take Out Some Insurance

• What's Wrong, Baby

• Why Can't I Come In

• You Don't Have To Go

• You Got Me Dizzy

• You Upset My Mind

Discography

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• Big Boss Men

  Indigo

  2001

• As Jimmy Is

  Unidisc

  1977

• Blues Is My Business

  Collectables

  1976

• Down in Virginia

  BluesWay

  1974

• I Ain't from Chicago

  BluesWay

  1973

• Let the Bossman Speak

  197?

• T'Aint No Big Thing But He Is...

  Collectables

  1968

• Soulin'

  1967

• The New Jimmy Reed Album

  1967

• Now Appearing

  Collectables

  1966

• 12 String Guitar Blues

  Collectables

  1963

• Just Jimmy Reed

  Collectables

  1962

• Jimmy Reed at Carnegie Hall

  Shout! Factory

  1961

• Found Love

  Collectables

  1959

• Rockin' with Reed

  Collectables

  1959

• I'm Jimmy Reed

  Collectables

  1959