Trackimage | Playbut | Trackname | Playbut | Trackname |
---|---|---|---|---|
36674736 | Play | Free and Easy Mind | 00:00 Tools | |
36674737 | Play | I Sat And Cried | 00:00 Tools | |
36674738 | Play | T-99 Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
36674739 | Play | Unlock the Lock | 00:00 Tools | |
36674740 | Play | The Wheel | 00:00 Tools | |
36674741 | Play | "T" 99 Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
36674742 | Play | Meet Me With Your Black Dress On | 00:00 Tools | |
36674744 | Play | Cry Hard Luck | 00:00 Tools | |
36674743 | Play | Big Mouth | 00:00 Tools | |
36674746 | Play | Right Around The Corner | 00:00 Tools | |
36674745 | Play | Tell Me Who | 00:00 Tools | |
36674747 | Play | Mr. Big Wheel | 00:00 Tools | |
36674748 | Play | T-99 (My Sweet Little Honey Dripper) | 00:00 Tools | |
36674749 | Play | Married Men Like Sport | 00:00 Tools | |
36674750 | Play | Sweetest Little Girl | 00:00 Tools | |
36674751 | Play | Bad Habit Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
36674752 | Play | Fine Little Honey Dripper | 00:00 Tools | |
36674754 | Play | Free And Easy Mind - 1955 | 00:00 Tools | |
36674755 | Play | Great Big Hunk of Man | 00:00 Tools | |
36674759 | Play | Baby Child | 00:00 Tools | |
36674753 | Play | West Texas Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
36674756 | Play | ‘T-99’ Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
36674757 | Play | The cats creep at midnight | 00:00 Tools | |
36674758 | Play | Baby chile | 00:00 Tools | |
36674765 | Play | Mr Big Wheel | 00:00 Tools | |
36674769 | Play | Unlock The Door | 00:00 Tools | |
36674761 | Play | T-99 | 00:00 Tools | |
36674760 | Play | Unlock the Lock - Lock and Key | 00:00 Tools | |
36674762 | Play | Secondhand Fool | 00:00 Tools | |
36674763 | Play | Mean Poor Girl | 00:00 Tools | |
36674770 | Play | Streamlined Baby | 00:00 Tools | |
36674773 | Play | T-99 Blues (Little Bittie Gal's Blues) | 00:00 Tools | |
36674774 | Play | The Red Light Gotta Go | 00:00 Tools | |
36674764 | Play | Big Eyed Brown Eyed Girl Of Mine | 00:00 Tools | |
36674766 | Play | Free And Easy Mind / Jimmy Nelson | 00:00 Tools | |
36674767 | Play | Jimmy Nelson: Gorgeous portraits of the world's vanishing people | 00:00 Tools | |
36674768 | Play | Free & Easy Mind | 00:00 Tools | |
36674771 | Play | Jailhouse love | 00:00 Tools | |
36674772 | Play | Meet me with your black dress | 00:00 Tools | |
36674775 | Play | Little Miss Teasin' Brown | 00:00 Tools | |
36674776 | Play | T-99Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
36674777 | Play | Rich Little Girl | 00:00 Tools | |
36674778 | Play | I Sat And Cried (Jimmy Nelson) | 00:00 Tools | |
36674779 | Play | Rain Drop Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
36674780 | Play | Second Hand Fool | 00:00 Tools |
Jimmy "T99" Nelson (April 7, 1919 – July 29, 2007) was an American jump blues and rhythm & blues shouter and songwriter. With a recording career that spanned over 50 years, Jimmy "T99" Nelson became a distinguished elder statesman of American music. His best known recordings are "T-99 Blues" and "Meet Me With Your Black Dress On". Nelson notably worked with Duke Robillard and Otis Grand. Nelson got his start singing in church. In 1941, he saw a performance by Big Joe Turner while he was visiting Oakland, California, and realized he wanted to sing the blues. Turner taught Nelson about singing, performance and the music business. Nelson, in turn, absorbed the shouting style of his mentor. From 1951 through 1961, Jimmy Nelson and the Peter Rabbit Trio released eight singles with the Bihari Brothers' Modern/RPM label. The biggest of these was "T-99 Blues" (which referred to the old Texas Highway #99), which debuted in June 1951. It stayed on the US Billboard R&B chart for twenty-one weeks and reached number 1. In 1952, Nelson had another RPM hit with "Meet Me With Your Black Dress On." Nelson began touring, performing with bands led by Joe Liggins and Roy Milton, and playing venues including the Apollo and Howard theaters. He cut singles for a number of labels including Kent, Music City, Paradise and All Boy, and Chess (including for them the 1955 "Free and Easy Mind"). In 1955, Nelson met and married his Nettie (who is now deceased) and adopted Houston, Texas as his hometown. For the next 20 years, Nelson settled down and took a job working construction, though he continued to write songs and sit in with bands. In the 1980s, Nelson came to the wider attention of blues fans when Ace issued ten of his sides on an album. Sweet Sugar Daddy a compilation album from the Japanese P-Vine Records, which mainly consisted of unreleased studio recordings from the 1960s and 1970s, was also released in 1988. Nelson resumed touring and in 1999, released a comeback album Rockin' and Shoutin' the Blues from the Bullseye Blues & Jazz label. This album was nominated in two categories of the W.C. Handy Awards the following year.[4] Two more newly recorded albums followed on his own Nettie Marie label prior to his death, both featuring an all-star back-up band including Duke Robillard. In 2004, Ace released Cry Hard Luck, featuring re-issues of Nelson's Kent & RPM recordings from 1951-1961. Nelson died of cancer at a nursing home in Houston on July 29, 2007. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.