⬇️ JIMMY BURNS ⬇️
DISCOGRAPHY 1996-2025 (13CD/DVD)
Jimmy Burns (born February 27, 1943, Dublin, Mississippi, United States)
is an award winning American soul blues and electric blues guitarist,
singer and songwriter. Although he was born in the Mississippi Delta,
Burns has spent nearly all his life in Chicago. His elder brother, Eddie
"Guitar" Burns, is a Detroit blues musician.
Burns was raised on the Hilliard Cotton Plantation in Mississippi where he learned to play one-string and 12-string guitar. He was the youngest of eleven children. He sang in a church choir when he still lived in the Delta and he was influenced by the blues he heard on the streets.
His favorite blues musician was Lightnin' Hopkins. Burns's father was a sharecropper who performed as a singer in medicine shows.
BIOGRAPHY
Burns was raised on the Hilliard Cotton Plantation in Mississippi where he learned to play one-string and 12-string guitar. He was the youngest of eleven children. He sang in a church choir when he still lived in the Delta and he was influenced by the blues he heard on the streets.
His favorite blues musician was Lightnin' Hopkins. Burns's father was a sharecropper who performed as a singer in medicine shows.
At the age of 12, Jimmy Burns moved with his family to Chicago and four
years later joined The Medallionaires who recorded a couple of doo-wop
tracks. Recording mostly solo in the 1960s, Burns issued singles for the
USA, Minit, Tip Top and Erica labels.....
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