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The Amazing Jimmi Mayes: Sideman to the Stars
By Mayes, Jimmi & V.C. Speek
- ISBN
- 9781617039164
- Publisher
- Univ. of Mississippi
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Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2014 | Arts and Humanities
The "amazing" part of the title of drummer Mayes's memoir captures the up-and-down career of a musician who played behind blues greats such as Junior Wells, Pinetop Perkins, and Little Walter Jacobs, who backed up R&B and soul singers such as Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, and James Brown, and who roomed with Jimi Hendrix wh...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
