St. Louis Jimmy Oden

St. Louis Jimmy Oden

James Burke "St. Louis Jimmy" Oden (June 26 1903 - December 30 1977 [ [http://wc02.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=ST|LOUIS|JIMMY|ODEN&sql=11:0jfqxq95ldde~T1 All Music Guide biography] ] ), was an American blues vocalist and songwriter.

Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Jimmy Oden sang and taught himself to play the piano in childhood. In his teens, he left home to go to St. Louis, Missouri (c. 1917 [ [http://wc02.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=ST|LOUIS|JIMMY|ODEN&sql=11:0jfqxq95ldde~T1 All Music Guide biography] ] ) where piano-based blues was prominent. He was able to develop his vocal talents and began performing with the gifted pianist, Roosevelt Sykes. After more than ten years playing in and around St. Louis, in 1933 he and Sykes decided to move on to Chicago.cite book
first= Tony
last= Russell
year= 1997
title= The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray
edition=
publisher= Carlton Books Limited
location= Dubai
pages= p. 151
id= ISBN 1-85868-255-X]

In Chicago he was dubbed St. Louis Jimmy and there he would enjoy a solid performing and recording career for the next four decades. While Chicago became his home base, Oden traveled with a group of blues players to various places throughout the United States. He recorded a large number of records, his best known coming in 1941 on the Bluebird Records label called "Goin' Down Slow." Oden wrote a number of songs, two of which, "Take the Bitter with the Sweet" and "Soon Forgotten," were recorded by his friend, Muddy Waters.

In 1948 on Aristocrat Records Oden cut "Florida Hurricane", accompanied by the pianist Sunnyland Slim and the guitarist Muddy Waters. [ [http://wc02.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=ST|LOUIS|JIMMY|ODEN&sql=11:0jfqxq95ldde~T1 All Music Guide biography] ] In 1949, Oden partnered with Joe Brown to form a small recording company called J.O.B. Records that remained in business for twenty-five years.

After a serious road accident in 1957 he devoted himself to writing and placed material with Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf ("What a Woman!") and John Lee Hooker. In 1960 he made an album with Bluesville Records, and sang on a Candid Records session with Robert Lockwood, Jr. and Otis Spann.cite book
first= Tony
last= Russell
year= 1997
title= The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray
edition=
publisher= Carlton Books Limited
location= Dubai
pages= p. 151
id= ISBN 1-85868-255-X]

Oden died, at the age of 74, in 1977 and was interred in the Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, near Chicago.

ee also

*List of blues musicians

References

External links

* [http://wc02.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=ST|LOUIS|JIMMY|ODEN&sql=11:0jfqxq95ldde~T1 Oden biography] at Allmusic website
* [http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/job.html J.O.B. Records fansite]


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