Somerset Maugham Award
1 appearances
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Edition 0 (1988) Winner
Jimmy Burns
ジミー・バーンズ
Jīmī Bānzu
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1943-02-27 （Dublin, Mississippi）
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Mississippi Delta → Chicago, Illinois
Career
- Occupations
- guitarist, singer, songwriter
- Active Years
- 1960-2024
- Affiliations
- Delmark Records
- Influenced By
- Lightnin' Hopkins
- Nominations
- W.C. Handy Award nomination
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Best Blues Record of the Year | Leaving Here Walking | — | National Association of Independent Record Distributors | 受賞 |
Best Blues Record of the Year
1996
Work:
Leaving Here Walking
Organization:
National Association of Independent Record Distributors
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Leaving Here Walking
1996 soul bluesDebut album
Bibliography
- Leaving Here Walking
- Night Time Again
- Back to the Delta
- Stuck In The Middle
- It Ain't Right
- Full Circle
- Live at B.L.U.E.S.
Legacy
American soul blues and electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter born in the Mississippi Delta but spent most of his life in Chicago. Gained renewed attention in the 1990s and toured internationally.
Trivia
- Youngest of eleven children.
- Father was a sharecropper who performed as a singer in medicine shows.
- Moved to Chicago at age 12.
- Wife Dorothy died on February 12, 2010; they had six children.