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American Chicago blues musician (–)

For other people with similar names, see Jimmie Rodgers, Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer), and James Rogers (disambiguation).

Jimmy Rogers
Rogers in concert in
Birth name	Jay or James Arthur Lane
Born	()June 3, Ruleville, Mississippi, U.S.
Died	December 19, () (aged&#;73) Chicago
Genres	Chicago blues
Occupation	Musician
Instruments
Years active	–
Labels	Chess

Musical artist

Jimmy Rogers (June 3, &#;&#; December 19, )^[1] 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 s.

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He also had a solo career and recorded several popular blues songs, including "That's All Right" (now a blues standard), "Chicago Bound", "Walking by Myself" (his sole R&B chart appearance), and "Rock This House". He withdrew from the music industry at the end of the s, but returned to recording and touring in the s.

Career

Rogers was born Jay or James Arthur Lane in Ruleville, Mississippi, on June 3, He was raised in Atlanta and Memphis.

He adopted his stepfather's surname. He learned to play the harmonica with his childhood friend Snooky Pryor, and as a teenager he took up the guitar. He played professionally in East St. Louis, Illinois, with Robert Lockwood, Jr., among others. Rogers moved to Chicago in the mids. By , he had recorded as a harmonica player and singer for the Harlem record label, run by J.

Mayo Williams. Rogers's name did not appear on the record, which was mislabeled as the work of Memphis Slim and His Houserockers.

In , Rogers, Muddy Waters and Little Walter began playing together, forming Waters's first band in Chicago (sometimes referred to as the Headcutters or the Headhunters, because of their practice of stealing jobs from other local bands).

The band members recorded and released music credited to each of them as solo artists. The band defined the sound of the nascent Chicago blues style (more specifically, South Side Chicago blues). Rogers recorded several sides of his own with small labels in Chicago, but none were released at the time.

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He began to achieve success as a solo artist in , with the song "That's All Right", released by Chess Records, but he stayed in Waters's band until In the mids he had several successful records released by Chess, most of them featuring either Little Walter or Big Walter Horton on harmonica, notably "Walking by Myself".^[10] In the late s, as interest in the blues waned, he gradually withdrew from the music industry.^[11]

In the early s, Rogers briefly worked as a member of Howling Wolf's band, before quitting the music business altogether for almost a decade.^[11] He worked as a taxicab driver and owned a clothing store, which burned down in the Chicago riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Rogers gradually began performing in public again, and in , when fashions made him somewhat popular in Europe, he began occasionally touring and recording, including a session with Waters which resulted in the album I'm Ready.^[11] By , Rogers was again a full-time solo artist. He continued touring and recording albums until his death.

In , Rogers was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.^[12] His song "That's All Right" was inducted by the organization in as a "Classic of Blues Recording", which identified it as a blues standard.^[13]

Rogers died of colon cancer in Chicago in ^[1] He was survived by his son, Jimmy D.

Lane, a guitarist, record producer and recording engineer for Blue Heaven Studios and APO Records.

Discography

Singles

• "That's All Right" / "Ludella" (Chess , 10/50)
• "Going Away Baby" / "Today, Today, Blues" (Chess , 11/50)
• "The World is in a Tangle" / "She Loves Another Man" (Chess , 3/51)
• "Money, Marbles and Chalk" / "Chance to Love" (Chess , 8/51)
• "Back Door Friend" / "I Used to Have a Woman" (Chess , 4/52)
• "The Last Time" / "Out on the Road" (Chess , 9/52)
• "Left Me with a Broken Heart" / "Act Like You Love Me" (Chess , 7/53)
• "Sloppy Drunk" / "Chicago Bound" (Chess , 6/54)
• "You're the One" / "Blues All Day Long" (Chess , 1/56)
• "Walking by Myself" / "If it Ain't Me (Who You Thinking Of)" (Chess , 11/56)
• "I Can't Believe" / "One Kiss" (Chess , 5/57)
• "What Have I Done" / "Trace of You" (Chess , 3/58)
• "Rock This House" / "My Last Meal" (Chess , 2/59)

Albums

• Chicago Bound (, Chess), compilation of s Chess recordings
• Gold Tailed Bird (, Shelter)
• Sloppy Drunk (, Black & Blue), studio album recorded in
• Jimmy Rogers (, Chess Masters series), 2-LP compilation with more s Chess recordings
• That's All Right (, Charly), compilation of Chess recordings
• Ludella (, Antone's), studio and live recordings c.

• Jimmy Rogers with Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters (, CrossCut), live recording from
• Feelin' Good (, Blind Pig), with Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers
• Blue Bird (, Analogue Productions), studio recording from
• The Complete Chess Recordings (, Chess/MCA), 2-CD
• Blues Blues Blues (, Atlantic), as the "Jimmy Rogers All-Stars", with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Taj Mahal, Lowell Fulson, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Jeff Healey, Stephen Stills.
• His Best (, Chess/MCA)

References

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