Performance · Production
Jimmy Dawkins
Tchula, United States • 1936-10-24 – 2013-04-10
Jimmy Dawkins is credited on 213 releases across 64 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1968–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

213
Pressings credited
64
Albums
7
Decades active
6
In collections
Biography
James Henry “Jimmy” Dawkins (October 24, 1936 – April 10, 2013) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist and singer. He is generally considered to have been a practitioner of the "West Side sound" of Chicago blues.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
213 releases · 64 albums · active 1968–2024
- Performance · 473
- Production · 9
- Other credits · 8
Studios: Sound Studios, Chicago · Ma Bea's · Studio Condorcet · Hilpert Theater
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Johnny Young (3)
- Luther Allison And The Blue Nebulae
- "Jimmy ""Fast Fingers"" Dawkins"
- Peps Persson
- Sleepy John Estes
- Cousin Joe
- Eddie Clearwater
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