Diskussion:Jimmy Reed
Reed lernte von seinem Freund Eddie Taylor Mundharmonika und Gitarre zu spielen. In einem Radiointerview von 1976 erwähnte Reed, dass diese Aussage nur bedingt stimmt: Taylor gab ihm nicht Gitarrenunterricht, sondern Reed schaute, oder hörte viel mehr sich das Gitarrenspiel von Taylor ab, der ihm nicht aktiv Unterricht gab.
Vee-Jay 100 (US 7/1953) licensed to Chance Records = Chance 1142 (US 8/1953)[Quelltext bearbeiten]
... vielleicht möchte jemand dies im Artikel mal richtigstellen ?! Lt. verlässlicher Quelle : The Chance Label discography (http://myweb.clemson.edu/~campber/chance.html): "[Art] Sheridan [...] began working with Vee-Jay Records, which had just set up shop and had two releases, one by the the doowop group the Spaniels and one by the bluesman Jimmy Reed. The company was owned by two neophytes, Jimmy Bracken and Vivian Carter, who had no distribution and little knowledge of the business. When the Spaniels' record, 'Baby It's You,' started generating interest, Chance picked it up for national distribution and it became a top ten R&B record. [...] The Jimmy Reed disk, 'High and Lonesome' b/w 'Roll and Rhumba,' also saw some local action, and picked up national sales as well from Chance distribution. Thereafter, Sheridan and Abner worked closely with Vee-Jay in getting it off the ground. However, Vee-Jay would continue to be little more than a mom and pop operation through the first half of 1954." Weiterer Beweis: Das Chance 1142 Label trägt die Vee-Jay Matrix-Nummern "VJ53-104" und "VJ53-107"! StefanWirz (Diskussion) 09:38, 29. Aug. 2015 (CEST)