Jimmy Rogers (album)
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Jimmy Rogers is a double compilation album
Compilation album
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 of the blues
Blues
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 guitarist
Guitarist
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 Jimmy Rogers
Jimmy Rogers
Jimmy Rogers was an American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters' band of the 1950s.-Career:...

. The album was published as part of the Chess Masters series.

Track listing

All songs written by Jimmy Rogers. Published by Arc Music, BMI
Broadcast Music Incorporated
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.

Side one

  1. "Left Me With A Broken Heart" (1953) – 2:55
  2. "Blues All Day Long" (1954) – 3:00
  3. "Today Today Blues (1950)" – 3:07
  4. "The World's In A Tangle" (1951) – 2:55
  5. "She Loves Another Man" (1951) – 2:50
  6. "Hard Working Man" (1951) – 2:21

Side two

  1. "Chance To Love" (1951) – 2:20
  2. "My Little Machine" (1951) – 3:06
  3. "Mistreated Baby" (1952) – 2:25
  4. "What's The Matter" (1952) – 3:10
  5. "You're The One" (1955) – 2:26
  6. "If It Ain't Me" (1956) – 2:00

Side three

  1. "One Kiss" (1957) – 2:45
  2. "I Can't Believe" (1957)- 3:00
  3. "What Have I Done" (1957) – 2:42
  4. "My baby Don't Love Me No More" (1957) – 2:20
  5. "Trace Of you" (1957) – 2:32
  6. "Don't you Know My Baby" (1956) – 2:31

Side four

  1. "Crying Shame" (1952) – 2:47
  2. "Give Love Another Chance" (1952) – 2:58
  3. "This Has never Been" (1956) – 4:29
  4. "Rock This House" (1959) – 2:53
  5. "My Last Meal" (1959) – 3:00
  6. "You Don't know" (1960) – 2:41
  7. "Can't Keep From Worrying" (1960) – 2:29

Credits

  • Jimmy Rogers
    Jimmy Rogers
    Jimmy Rogers was an American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters' band of the 1950s.-Career:...

     – vocals, guitar
    Guitar
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     on all tracks except "Give Love Another Chance", on which Rogers only plays guitar.
  • A. J. Gladys – drums
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  • Big-Crawford – bass
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  • Bob Woodfork – guitar
  • Eddie Ware – piano
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    , vocal on "Give love Another Chance"
  • Elgin Evans – drums
  • Ernest Cotton – tenor sax
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  • Francis Clay
    Francis Clay
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     – drums
  • Fred Below
    Fred Below
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     – drums
  • 'Fred Robertson' – guitar (actually Freddy Robinson
    Abu Talib (musician)
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    )
  • George Hunter
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    – drums
  • Henry Gray
    Henry Gray (musician)
    Henry Gray is an African-American blues piano player and singer. He has been playing for more than seven decades, and has played with a multitude of artists including Robert Lockwood, Jr., Billy Boy Arnold, Morris Pejoe, the Rolling Stones, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf among many others...

     – piano
  • Joe young
    Joe Young
    Joe Young was a lyricist. He was born in New York. Young was most active from 1911 through the late-1930s, beginning his career working as a singer and songplugger for various music publishers. During World War I, he entertained the U.S...

     – guitar
  • Johnny Jones
    Johnny Jones
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    – piano
  • J. T. Brown
    J. T. Brown
    J. T. Brown was an American tenor saxophonist of the Chicago blues era. He was variously billed as Saxman Brown, J.T. Brown and Bep Brown.-Biography:...

     – tenor sax
  • Little Walter
    Little Walter
    Little Walter, born Marion Walter Jacobs , was an American blues harmonica player, whose revolutionary approach to his instrument has earned him comparisons to Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix, for innovation and impact on succeeding generations...

     – harp, guitar on "Hard Working Man"
  • Luther Tucker
    Luther Tucker
    For the publisher see The Genesee FarmerLuther Tucker was an American blues guitarist.While soft spoken and shy, Tucker made his presence known through his unique and clearly recognizable guitar style. Tucker helped to define the music known as Chicago Blues, but played everything from blues to...

     – guitar
  • Muddy Waters
    Muddy Waters
    McKinley Morganfield , known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered the "father of modern Chicago blues"...

     – guitar
  • Odie Payne
    Odie Payne
    Odie Payne was an American Chicago blues drummer. Over his long career Payne worked with a range of musicians including Sonny Boy Williamson II, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Eddie Taylor, Little Johnny Jones, Tampa Red, Otis Rush, Yank Rachell, Sleepy John Estes, Little Brother Montgomery, Memphis...

     – drums
  • Otis Spann
    Otis Spann
    Otis Spann was an American blues musician, who many consider the leading postwar Chicago blues pianist.-Career:Born in Jackson, Mississippi, United States, Spann became known for his distinct piano style....

     – piano
  • S. P. Leary – drums
  • Walter Horton – harp
  • Wayne Bennett
    Wayne Bennett (blues guitarist)
    Wayne Bennett was an American blues guitarist.-Biography:He was born in Sulphur, Oklahoma, and died in New Orleans Louisiana. He worked with blues musicians such as Bobby Bland, Boxcar Willie, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker and Elmore James, as well as with jazz musicians, including Cannonball...

     – guitar
  • Willie Dixon
    Willie Dixon
    William James "Willie" Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the Upright bass and the guitar, as well as his own singing voice, Dixon is arguably best known as one of the most prolific songwriters...

    – bass
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