Jimmy Nelson

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Free and Easy Mind 00:00 Tools
I Sat And Cried 00:00 Tools
T-99 Blues 00:00 Tools
Unlock the Lock 00:00 Tools
The Wheel 00:00 Tools
"T" 99 Blues 00:00 Tools
Meet Me With Your Black Dress On 00:00 Tools
Cry Hard Luck 00:00 Tools
Big Mouth 00:00 Tools
Right Around The Corner 00:00 Tools
Tell Me Who 00:00 Tools
Mr. Big Wheel 00:00 Tools
T-99 (My Sweet Little Honey Dripper) 00:00 Tools
Married Men Like Sport 00:00 Tools
Sweetest Little Girl 00:00 Tools
Bad Habit Blues 00:00 Tools
Fine Little Honey Dripper 00:00 Tools
Free And Easy Mind - 1955 00:00 Tools
Great Big Hunk of Man 00:00 Tools
Baby Child 00:00 Tools
West Texas Blues 00:00 Tools
‘T-99’ Blues 00:00 Tools
The cats creep at midnight 00:00 Tools
Baby chile 00:00 Tools
Mr Big Wheel 00:00 Tools
Unlock The Door 00:00 Tools
T-99 00:00 Tools
Unlock the Lock - Lock and Key 00:00 Tools
Secondhand Fool 00:00 Tools
Mean Poor Girl 00:00 Tools
Streamlined Baby 00:00 Tools
T-99 Blues (Little Bittie Gal's Blues) 00:00 Tools
The Red Light Gotta Go 00:00 Tools
Big Eyed Brown Eyed Girl Of Mine 00:00 Tools
Free And Easy Mind / Jimmy Nelson 00:00 Tools
Jimmy Nelson: Gorgeous portraits of the world's vanishing people 00:00 Tools
Free & Easy Mind 00:00 Tools
Jailhouse love 00:00 Tools
Meet me with your black dress 00:00 Tools
Little Miss Teasin' Brown 00:00 Tools
T-99Blues 00:00 Tools
Rich Little Girl 00:00 Tools
I Sat And Cried (Jimmy Nelson) 00:00 Tools
Rain Drop Blues 00:00 Tools
Second Hand Fool 00:00 Tools
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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.