Bitrate:320K/s
Year:1998
Time:53:30
Size:122,5 MB
Label:Amina Records
Styles:Blues
Art:Full
Year:1998
Time:53:30
Size:122,5 MB
Label:Amina Records
Styles:Blues
Art:Full
Tracks Listing:
1. Maxwell St. Classic - 5:22
2. What Makes a Woman Happy - 4:42
3. Peaches - 4:47
4. I'll Be Your Slave - 4:20
5. What Makes Your Head So Smart (Trifflin' On You) - 4:43
6. That Lucky Old Sun - 4:30
7. Maxwell St. Memories - 3:46
8. Maxwell Street Teardown Blues - 5:31
9. A Woman Born of a Man - 4:06
10. Electricity Blues - 2:42
11. The Real Deal - 5:00
12. Moaning the Blues - 3:56
1. Maxwell St. Classic - 5:22
2. What Makes a Woman Happy - 4:42
3. Peaches - 4:47
4. I'll Be Your Slave - 4:20
5. What Makes Your Head So Smart (Trifflin' On You) - 4:43
6. That Lucky Old Sun - 4:30
7. Maxwell St. Memories - 3:46
8. Maxwell Street Teardown Blues - 5:31
9. A Woman Born of a Man - 4:06
10. Electricity Blues - 2:42
11. The Real Deal - 5:00
12. Moaning the Blues - 3:56
This song was written and recorded by Jimmie Lee Robinson to inspire the fight for historic preservation of the old Maxwell Street. Jimmie Lee was a regular playing on Maxwell Street in the 1940s before Muddy Waters played there. You can read his description of life on Maxwell Street by reading his Save Maxwell St. plea to UIC Chancellor Broski.
Blues guitarist Jimmie Robinson, born 1931 in Chicago, has been called the "Picasso of the blues." He grew up near Maxwell Street and his earliest collaborations were with musicians in that neighborhood.
Most of the family came from around Hillhouse, Mississippi. Jimmie knew his great grandfather Mose Jenkins, who was born a slave and whose job was water boy. After emancipation, Mose became a preacher circuit rider. Jimmie Lee remembers walking with his great grandfather and grandfather on Maxwell Street. Mose died at age 91 in Chicago in 1935. Mose had a daughter, Celia (Jimmie's Grandmother); Celia's mother was a Choctaw Indian.
Jimmie spent a lot of time with his grandparents: Celia and Elijah Jackson. Celia was called "Little Mama" and Elijah was called "Big Daddy" because they took care of everyone. Elijah worked as a barber and a factory worker at McCormick Farm Equipment. Jimmie remembers Celia making sweet potato and apple pies that his grandfather Elijah would sell at work as a sideline activity.
Jimmie's parents were Almor Smith and Emma Robinson. Almor was a construction worker, worked for the WPA and also as junkman. Emma also had a boyfriend, Jack Palmer, a communist who was friends with Paul Robeson. Jack Palmer was the father of Jimmie's half brother, Eddie Lee Robinson.
In 1948, Jimmie met the now legendary singer/guitarist Eddie Taylor and they played the Chicago club scene until1952. Robinson, who played with Freddie King in a band called "The Every Hour Blues Boys," would go on to share the stage with Little Walter and B.B. King. He was in demand at classic Chess and Veejay recording sessions. He did lead guitar work on Little Walter's 1957 Ah'w Baby, rhythm guitar on the 1958 The Toddle, and bass guitar on the 1958 Confessin the Blues.
He also gained fame as a sideman for other blues legends such as Sunnyland Slim in the '60s and Howlin' Wolf in the '70s. By the '80s, however, he had virtually disappeared from the blues scene. He has made a come back in the '90s, when he signed with the Delmark label. His CD, Guns, Gangs, and Drugs, is a timely mixture of poetry and blues. Mr. Robinson presented the song, Maxwell Street Tear Down Blues, at a Maxwell Street protest rally, April 4, 1998 on Maxwell and Halsted Streets, his old home turf. "Maxwell Street Tear Down Blues" is in Jimmie Lee's new CD: Maxwell Street Blues/
Blues guitarist Jimmie Robinson, born 1931 in Chicago, has been called the "Picasso of the blues." He grew up near Maxwell Street and his earliest collaborations were with musicians in that neighborhood.
Most of the family came from around Hillhouse, Mississippi. Jimmie knew his great grandfather Mose Jenkins, who was born a slave and whose job was water boy. After emancipation, Mose became a preacher circuit rider. Jimmie Lee remembers walking with his great grandfather and grandfather on Maxwell Street. Mose died at age 91 in Chicago in 1935. Mose had a daughter, Celia (Jimmie's Grandmother); Celia's mother was a Choctaw Indian.
Jimmie spent a lot of time with his grandparents: Celia and Elijah Jackson. Celia was called "Little Mama" and Elijah was called "Big Daddy" because they took care of everyone. Elijah worked as a barber and a factory worker at McCormick Farm Equipment. Jimmie remembers Celia making sweet potato and apple pies that his grandfather Elijah would sell at work as a sideline activity.
Jimmie's parents were Almor Smith and Emma Robinson. Almor was a construction worker, worked for the WPA and also as junkman. Emma also had a boyfriend, Jack Palmer, a communist who was friends with Paul Robeson. Jack Palmer was the father of Jimmie's half brother, Eddie Lee Robinson.
In 1948, Jimmie met the now legendary singer/guitarist Eddie Taylor and they played the Chicago club scene until1952. Robinson, who played with Freddie King in a band called "The Every Hour Blues Boys," would go on to share the stage with Little Walter and B.B. King. He was in demand at classic Chess and Veejay recording sessions. He did lead guitar work on Little Walter's 1957 Ah'w Baby, rhythm guitar on the 1958 The Toddle, and bass guitar on the 1958 Confessin the Blues.
He also gained fame as a sideman for other blues legends such as Sunnyland Slim in the '60s and Howlin' Wolf in the '70s. By the '80s, however, he had virtually disappeared from the blues scene. He has made a come back in the '90s, when he signed with the Delmark label. His CD, Guns, Gangs, and Drugs, is a timely mixture of poetry and blues. Mr. Robinson presented the song, Maxwell Street Tear Down Blues, at a Maxwell Street protest rally, April 4, 1998 on Maxwell and Halsted Streets, his old home turf. "Maxwell Street Tear Down Blues" is in Jimmie Lee's new CD: Maxwell Street Blues/
