St. Louis Jimmy

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Florida Hurricane 02:55 Tools
Going Down Slow 03:13 Tools
Goin' Down Slow 03:11 Tools
So Nice and Kind 03:11 Tools
Going Down Slow (Remastered 2002) 03:11 Tools
Murder In The First Degree 02:49 Tools
Pipe Layin' Blues 03:20 Tools
One Doggone Reason 03:02 Tools
Florida Hurricane - Single Version 02:56 Tools
I Ain't Done Nothing Wrong 04:47 Tools
Shame On You Baby 03:07 Tools
I'm Not Satisfied 03:21 Tools
St. Louis Woman Blues 03:21 Tools
Your Evil Ways 02:57 Tools
Coming Up Fast 02:41 Tools
Dog House Blues 04:36 Tools
I Sit Up All Night 02:38 Tools
Hard Work Boogie 02:56 Tools
State Street Blues 02:02 Tools
So Nice And Kind - 1948 03:03 Tools
That's All I Think 03:06 Tools
Florida Hurrican 02:56 Tools
Trying to change my ways 02:56 Tools
Hard Luck Boogie 02:51 Tools
Some Sweet Day 03:03 Tools
Poor Boy Blues 03:17 Tools
Drinkin' Woman 02:48 Tools
I Ain’t Done Nothing Wrong 02:50 Tools
Good Luck Blues 02:34 Tools
I Ain't Done Nothin Wrong 02:44 Tools
Going Down Slow - Remastered 2002 03:12 Tools
Poor Boy 04:30 Tools
Nothin' But The Blues 00:00 Tools
Mother's Day Blues 00:00 Tools
Mother's Day 02:56 Tools
Sweet As She Can Be 00:00 Tools
My Heart Is Loaded With Trouble 02:57 Tools
I'm St. Louis Bound 03:57 Tools
St Louis Woman Blues 02:56 Tools
Goin' Down Slow - Original 03:13 Tools
Monkey Faced Woman 02:56 Tools
My trouble 02:56 Tools
My Story Blues 03:07 Tools
Complete This Order 03:05 Tools
The Girl I Love 03:05 Tools
Can't stand your evil ways 03:05 Tools
Goin' Down Slow (1941) 02:56 Tools
Mr. Brown Boogie 02:17 Tools
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James Burke "St. Louis Jimmy" Oden (June 26, 1903 - December 30, 1977), was an American blues vocalist and songwriter. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Jimmy Oden sang and taught himself to play the piano in childhood. In his teens, he left home to go to St. Louis, Missouri (c. 1917) where piano-based blues was prominent. He was able to develop his vocal talents and began performing with the gifted pianist, Roosevelt Sykes. After more than ten years playing in and around St. Louis, in 1933 he and Sykes decided to move on to Chicago. In Chicago he was dubbed St. Louis Jimmy and there he would enjoy a solid performing and recording career for the next four decades. While Chicago became his home base, Oden traveled with a group of blues players to various places throughout the United States. He recorded a large number of records, his best known coming in 1941 on the Bluebird Records label called Goin' Down Slow. Oden wrote a number of songs, two of which, Take the Bitter with the Sweet and Soon Forgotten, were recorded by his friend, Muddy Waters. In 1948 on Aristocrat Records Oden cut Florida Hurricane, accompanied by the pianist Sunnyland Slim and the guitarist Muddy Waters. In 1949, Oden partnered with Joe Brown to form a small recording company called J.O.B. Records that remained in business for twenty-five years. After a serious road accident in 1957 he devoted himself to writing and placed material with Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf (What a Woman!) and John Lee Hooker. In 1960 he made an album with Bluesville Records, and sang on a Candid Records session with Robert Lockwood, Jr. and Otis Spann. Oden died, at the age of 74, in 1977 and was interred in the Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, near Chicago. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.