Jimmy Rogers was an American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters's band in the early 1950s.
12 Facts About Jimmy Rogers
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Jimmy Rogers withdrew from the music industry at the end of the 1950s, but returned to recording and touring in the 1970s.
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Jimmy Rogers learned to play the harmonica with his childhood friend Snooky Pryor, and as a teenager he took up the guitar.
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Jimmy Rogers played professionally in East St Louis, Illinois, with Robert Lockwood, Jr.
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Jimmy Rogers's name did not appear on the record, which was mislabeled as the work of Memphis Slim and His Houserockers.
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Jimmy Rogers recorded several sides of his own with small labels in Chicago, but none were released at the time.
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Jimmy Rogers began to achieve success as a solo artist in 1950, with the song "That's All Right", released by Chess Records, but he stayed in Waters's band until 1954.
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Jimmy Rogers worked as a taxicab driver and owned a clothing store, which burned down in the 1968 Chicago riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Jimmy Rogers gradually began performing in public again, and in 1971, when fashions made him somewhat popular in Europe, he began occasionally touring and recording, including a 1977 session with Waters which resulted in the album I'm Ready.
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Jimmy Rogers continued touring and recording albums until his death.
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In 1995, Jimmy Rogers was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.
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Jimmy Rogers was survived by his son, Jimmy D Lane, a guitarist, record producer and recording engineer for Blue Heaven Studios and APO Records.