Jimmy Dawkins
Jimmy Dawkins
Top Songs
| 1 | I Feel So Bad | ||
| 2 | Kold Actions | ||
| 3 | Have A Little Mercy | ||
| 4 | You Just a Baby Child | ||
| 5 | (If You Got To) Love Somebody |
Albums
Jul 2020 • 1 song
Aug 2014 • 10 songs
Jan 2014 • 7 songs
Similar Artists
Popular On
)
Denver's Talk Station)
St. Louis' Gospel Hits- Detroit's R&B with Steve Harvey Mornings
About
Biography
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 ...