JIMMY DeBERRY
JIMMY DeBERRY a la derecha con su guitarra , en compañía de Big Walter Horton
June 1953 was a hard time for Sam Phillips and SUN Records. Whene he releast this one the problem didnt end.
This was just another Great Blues Record that failed. but it was bigger then SUN 182 - 183 and 184 . an original Copy can cost around 500 - 700 doller in good conditon . So this song was the beggining of something new!
Recorded May 16, 1953, SUN studio, 706 Union, Memphis Tennessee.
Jimmy DeBerry (vcl/gtr); Raymond Jones (dms); Mose Vinson (pno).
b. 17 November 1911, Gumwood, Arkansas, USA, d. 17 January 1985, Sikeston, Missouri, USA. De Berry was an active if peripheral member of the Memphis blues community from its heyday during the 20s until the early 50s. He grew up in Arkansas and Mississippi before moving to Memphis to live with his aunt in 1927. Teaching himself to play ukulele and then banjo and guitar, he associated with the likes of Will Shade, Charlie Burse, Jack Kelly, Frank Stokes and a very young Walter Horton. While in East St. Louis in 1934, he lost the lower part of his right leg in a train accident. Five years later, he recorded for Vocalion Records with his Memphis Playboys in a style that updated the hokum music from the earlier part of the decade. Over the next 15 years De Berry spent time in St. Louis and Jackson, Tennessee, returning to Memphis to make radio appearances with Willie Nix and Walter Horton. In 1953 he recorded two sessions for Sun Records; at the first session, he and Horton recorded the classic ‘Easy’, an instrumental adaptation of Ivory Joe Hunter’s ‘I Almost Lost My Mind’. The blues ballad ‘Time Has Made A Change’, with accompaniment from pianist Mose Vinson, came from the second session. In 1972 producer Steve LaVere reunited De Berry and Horton for sessions designed to recreate their earlier partnership, an endeavour that met with little success.
From the LP ' Back - the complete 1972/1973 Memphis Sessions Vol.2'
on Crosscut Records
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