St. Louis Jimmy Oden

James Burke " St. Louis Jimmy " Oden ( born June 26, 1903 in Nashville ( Tennessee), † 30 December 1977 in Chicago) was an American blues pianist, singer, songwriter and producer.

James Burke Oden was born in Nashville, Tennessee; he sang and played already in his childhood self-taught piano. In early years he went in 1917 to St. Louis, Missouri, where he started performing with pianist Roosevelt Sykes. After more than ten years he worked in the St. Louis, he moved to Chicago in 1933 with Sykes.

In Chicago, he was called " St. Louis Jimmy " known where he mainly lived in the next four decades. From there, Oden went with a group of blues musicians on Tourmeen by the United States. From 1941 he held a number of pieces for Bluebird Records in ( " Goin ' Down Slow "). Oden also wrote a number of songs, which were "Take the Bitter with the Sweet " and " Soon Forgotten " performed by his friend Muddy Waters.

In 1948 he recorded for Aristocrat Records "Florida Hurricane", in which he was accompanied by pianist Sunnyland Slim and guitarist Muddy Waters. In 1947, Oden migt his business partner Joe Brown is a small and short-lived label Opera, from the then 1949 JOB Records emerged. In the first JOB session his composition " Mother's Day " was born. Even after a year ended Oden his work for the company, which still existed until 1974.

After a serious car accident in 1957 he limited himself to work as a songwriter, including Muddy Waters, Howlin ' Wolf ( "What a Woman! " ) and John Lee Hooker. In 1960 he took on the prestige sublabel Bluesville Records an album on ( Goin ' Down Slow ) on which the pianist Robert Banks participated, and worked as a singer on a session for Candid Records with Robert Lockwood, Jr. and Otis Spann with. Oden died in 1977 of pneumonia, and is at the Burr Oak Cemetery and Restvale Cemetery in Alsip (Illinois ) buried in Chicago.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Complete Works, Vol 1 (Document 1932 /33)
  • Complete Works, Vol 2 (Document, 1932 to 1955 )
  • 1932-1948 (Story of the Blues )
  • Goin ' Down Slow ( Prestige Records, 1960)
  • With Muddy Waters (Peter Pan)
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