Tracks: 1) Going To New York; 2) A String To Your Heart; 3) Ends & Odds; 4) Caress Me Baby; 5) Take Out Some Insurance; 6) The Moon Is Rising; 7) Down In Virginia; 8) I Know It’s A Sin; 9) Wanna Be Loved; 10) Baby, What’s On Your Mind; 11) My Bitter Seed; 12) Rockin’ With Reed.
“Precisely why it was his highest charting record of the year sort of escapes me”
It escapes me why people even bought Jimmy Reed records to begin with, seeing how boring his music generally is. I can understand maybe that Jimmy Reed was easy to cover by British Invasion artists, but not sure what made him such a commercial success. It’s nice background listening maybe, but do people actually pay for stuff to listen merely as background noise? I dunno, never got the appeal of Jimmy Reed. Maybe they’re some magic that makes the few people that still remember him listen his singles fondly.
“Precisely why it was his highest charting record of the year sort of escapes me”
It escapes me why people even bought Jimmy Reed records to begin with, seeing how boring his music generally is. I can understand maybe that Jimmy Reed was easy to cover by British Invasion artists, but not sure what made him such a commercial success. It’s nice background listening maybe, but do people actually pay for stuff to listen merely as background noise? I dunno, never got the appeal of Jimmy Reed. Maybe they’re some magic that makes the few people that still remember him listen his singles fondly.