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Tempo: Jimmy Reed

Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, January 1966

A MISSISSIPPI cum Chicago Blues-man named Jimmy Reed is one of the original practitioners of what everybody is just discovering. He holds the thankless job of getting knocked around on endless road tours and watching his rich, gutty music being stolen from under his nose.

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