Jimmy Nelson

Heavy-voiced Jimmy Nelson was extremely briefly a celebrity in 1951, when his downbeat “T-99 Blues” topped the R&B graphs for Modern Information’ RPM subsidiary. Strangely, he was struggling to ever get back into hitdom, despite some extremely deserving follow-ups. Though he was centered from Houston, Nelson do the majority of his early documenting in California. After debuting on polish in 1948 with an individual for Olliet, he slice his just smash, these “T-99 Blues,” in the Clef Golf club in Richmond, TX, in 1951, with back-up from pianist Peter Rabbit’s trio. (The exultant sluggish blues was included in bandleader Tiny Bradshaw for Ruler.) After that, Nelson do his studio work with RPM in L.A. having a cadre from the city’s best session males: saxist Maxwell Davis, pianist Willard McDaniel, guitarist Chuck Norris, bassists Crimson Callender and Ted Brinson, and drummer Lee Small. For unknown factors, the ominous “Meet up with Me TOGETHER WITH YOUR Black Gown On,” “USED Fool,” “Sweetest LITTTLE LADY,” and the others failed to do it again for the vocalist. Nelson made an individual for Chess in Houston in 1955 (the typically laid-back “Free of charge and Easy Brain”), ventured alongside Ray Dobard’s Bay Area-based Music Town diskery in 1957 to polish “The Steering wheel,” and attempted his fortune with a number of small Texas labels through the mid-’60s without further success.