Jimmy Rogers Blues Band
Chicago Blues Festival
Grant Park
Chicago, Illinois
June 16,1991
from master cassette

fm broadcast

Jimmy Rogers- guitar, vocals
Jimmy Lane- guitar
Piano Willie Oshawny- piano
Dean Haas (spelling?)-drums
Bob Stroger -bass
Scott Bradbury-harp

1) Intro
2) Instrumental
3) San-Ho-Zay
enter Jimmy Rogers
4) Gold Tailed Bird
5) Walkin' By Myself
6) Rock This House
7) You're Sweet
8) Tricky Women (?)
9) Left Me With a Broken Heart
10) Got My Mojo Workin'


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Jimmy Rogers (June 3, 1924 - December 19, 1997) is a blues guitarist best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters' band of the 1950s.

Jimmy Rogers was born in Ruleville, Mississippi as James A. Lane and was raised in Memphis, Tennessee. Rogers learned the harmonica along with his childhood friend Snooky Pryor, and as a teenager took up the guitar and played professionally in East St. Louis, Illinois (where he played with Robert Jr Lockwood) before moving to Chicago, Illinois in the mid 1940s after serving in the military. By 1946 he'd made his first record as a harmonica player and singer for the local Harlem label (not to be confused with the New York-based label of the same name), although his name was not included on the label - the record was issued as by Memphis Slim and His Houserockers.

Rogers joined Waters the next year, with whom he helped shape the sound of the nascent Chicago Blues style. Although he had several successful releases of his own on Chess Records beginning in 1950, he stayed in Waters' band until leaving the band for a solo career in 1954. In the mid 1950s he enjoyed several successful record releases, most notably "Walking By Myself", but as the '50s drew to a close and interest in the blues waned, he gradually withdrew from the music business. By the 1960s he was working mainly outside of music, until 1971 when fashions made him a reasonable draw in Europe, and he was able to record again, including a 1977 session with Waters. By 1982, Rogers was again a solo artist. He continued touring and recording albums until his death in 1997. He is survived by his son, James D. Lane, who is also a guitarist and a producer/recording engineer for Blue Heaven Studios and the APO label.

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