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St. Louis Jimmy Oden

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Blues pianist and composer St. Louis Jimmy was born James Burke Oden on June 26, 1903, in Nashville, Tennessee. He moved to St. Louis in 1917, where he performed and picked up his name. Along with fellow pianist Roosevelt Sykes, he moved to Chicago in 1932. Oden recorded regularly during the 1930s and 1940s, scoring a big blues hit with "Going Down Slow" for Bluebird in 1941. This song alone has become an enduring blues classic and has been covered countless times over. His most sustained success was as a songwriter during the post war years in Chicago, where he was supplying songs to a range of artists, from Muddy Waters and Little Walter to Otis Spann and others

Album

House Rent Party

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 1992
Track listing: I'm Just a Lonesome Man; Sad Old Sunday (Mother's Day); Boogie Man; Hard Time (When Mother's Gone); Chicago Woman; I'm in Love; Bad Times (Cost of Living); Nervous Breakdown; It Keeps Rainin; Brown Skin Woman; Old Age Has Got Me; That's All Right; Sad Old Sunday [alternate take]; I'm Just a Lonesome Man [alternate take]; Bad Times" [alternate take]


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