Álbumes de Jimmy Witherspoon
ALBUMBlue Spoon / Spoon In LondonJimmy Witherspoon
ALBUMGoin' to Kansas City BluesJimmy Witherspoon
ALBUMCall My BabyJimmy Witherspoon
ALBUMBlack & White BluesJimmy Witherspoon & Eric Burdon
ALBUMAmerican BluesJimmy Witherspoon & Howard Scott
ALBUMLove Is a Five Letter WordJimmy Witherspoon
ALBUMSpoonfulJimmy Witherspoon
ALBUMThe Blues Is NowBrother Jack McDuff & Jimmy Witherspoon
ALBUMBlues For Easy LiversJimmy Witherspoon
ALBUMSome of My Best Friends Are the Blues (Remastered)Jimmy Witherspoon
Biografía de este/a artista
A quintessential blues shouter in the tradition of Big Joe Turner, Jimmy Witherspoon got his start like many urban blues singers, fronting for jump blues and swing bands in the 1940s. By the late '50s, Witherspoon had started collaborating with more straightforward jazz musicians such as Richard "Groove" Holmes, Earl Hines, and Roy Eldridge. This combination of blues grit and jazz sophistication resulted in a highly influential hybrid embraced by many soul vocalists that emerged after Witherspoon. After a 50-year career, he finally succumbed to throat cancer in 1997 at the age of 77.
Ciudad natal
Gurdon, AR, United States
Género
Blues