Big Boss Man (Jimmy Reed album)

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Big Boss Man
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Studio album by
Jimmy Reed
Released1968
Recorded1968
StudioChicago, IL
Genre Blues
Length31:18
Label BluesWay
BL/BLS 6015
Producer Al Smith
Jimmy Reed chronology
Soulin'
(1967)		Big Boss Man
(1968)		 Down in Virginia
(1969)

Big Boss Man is an album by blues musician Jimmy Reed released by the BluesWay label in 1968. [1] [2] [3]

Jimmy Reed American blues musician and songwriter

Mathis James Reed was an American blues musician and songwriter. His particular style of electric blues was popular with blues as well as non-blues audiences. Reed's songs such as "Honest I Do" (1957), "Baby What You Want Me to Do" (1960), "Big Boss Man" (1961), and "Bright Lights, Big City" (1961) appeared on both Billboard magazine's rhythm and blues and Hot 100 singles charts.

BluesWay Records was an American subsidiary label of ABC-Paramount Records, begun by Bob Thiele in 1966. Artists such as John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, Jimmy Rushing, Otis Spann, and T-Bone Walker were among those who signed for the label. BluesWay released B. B. King's 1969 Live and Well and Completely Well albums, the latter containing his hit "The Thrill is Gone". The label also released the James Gang's first album, 1969's Yer' Album.

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AllMusic reviewer Cub Koda stated: "Reed was in pretty sad shape by this time in his life and the monotonous approach to these songs (tunes constantly fade in and out as if only this much of the performance was salvageable) gives these recordings a real assembly line quality that's most unsettling". [4]

AllMusic Online music database

AllMusic is an online music database. It catalogs more than 3 million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musical artists and bands. It launched in 1991, predating the World Wide Web. As of 2015, AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne.

Michael "Cub" Koda was an American rock and roll singer, guitarist, songwriter, disc jockey, music critic, and record compiler. Rolling Stone magazine considered him best known for writing the song "Smokin' in the Boys Room", recorded by Brownsville Station, which reached number 3 on the 1974 Billboard chart. He co-wrote and edited the All Music Guide to the Blues, and Blues for Dummies, and selected a version of each of the classic blues songs on the CD accompanying the book. He also wrote liner notes for the Trashmen, Jimmy Reed, J. B. Hutto, the Kingsmen, and the Miller Sisters, among others.

Track listing

All compositions credited to Al Smith except where noted

  1. "Give Up and Let Me Go" – 2:48
  2. "I'm Leavin'" (Mary Lee Reed) – 2:40
  3. "Shame, Shame, Shame" (Jimmy Reed) – 2:41
  4. "Run Here to Me Baby" (Mary Lee Reed) – 2:45
  5. "Life Is Funny" – 2:40
  6. "Two in One Blue" (Al Smith, James Oden) – 2:42
  7. "My Baby Told Me" (Mary Lee Reed) – 2:40
  8. "Five Years of Good Lovin'" – 2:50
  9. "When Two People in Love" – 2:40
  10. "I've Got to Keep on Rollin'" – 2:20
  11. "When I Woke Up This Morning" – 2:25

Personnel

Wayne Talmadge Bennett was an American blues guitarist.

Lefty Bates was an American Chicago blues guitarist. He led the Lefty Bates Combo and worked with the El Dorados, the Flamingos, Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, Etta James, the Aristo-Kats, the Hi-De-Ho Boys, the Moroccos, and the Impressions. A regular on the Chicago blues scene, his major work was as a session musician on numerous recordings in the 1950s and 1960s.

Eddie Taylor was an American electric blues guitarist and singer.

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