Jimmy Dawkins: Blisterstring
Title Blisterstring
Recording Date 1976
Recorded at Chess Studios, Chicago, IL
Producer Steve Tomashefsky and The Jimmy Dawkins Band
Label, Order Number LP Delmark DS-641
Re-Release CD Delmark DE-641 with 4 bonus tracks (1996, September 3)
Playing Time 61:19 min. (CD)
Tracks 1. Feel So Bad (7:30)
2. Blue Monday (4:33)
3. Chittlins Con Carne (3:46, instrumental)
4. She Got The Blues Too (CD only)
5. If You're Ready (4:58)
6. Blues With A Feeling (5:46)
7. Ode To Billy Joe (4:32, instrumental)
8. Welfare Line (7:47)
9. Shufflin' The Blues (CD only)
10. People Will Talk (CD only)
11. Sea of Luv (CD only)
LP Cover Click! Click!
CD Cover Click! Click!
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Musicians Jimmy Dawkins (g, voc)
Jimmy Johnson (g)
Sylvester Boines (b)
Sonny Thompson (p)
Tyrone Centuray (dr)
Critics JazzTimes (3/97, p.77):
"...some prime examples of Dawkins' killing, sustaining tone....tons of aggressive guitar work from one of the rawest from Chicago's West Side."

Living Blues (No. 134, p. 97):
"...is an excellent, if uneven, outing by one of the most introspective and thoughtful of Chicago's West Side guitarists. As with most of of Dawkins' recordings, the emphasis is on his guitar work, with his clean and fluid lines bringing taste and elegance to each cut. Blisterstring eschews over-the-top performance and production values, proving that in the hand of an artist like Jimmy Dawkins such excesses are unnecessary."

Last Update: 05/24/2003