Jimmy Reed
Sign in to saveAmerican blues musician and songwriter (1925–1976)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 11
Top works
- No Fear Real Estate - Making Money in a down Market with No Money
- Boss, Jaybird and Me
- Jimmy Reed, master bluesman
- Complete Reed
- Financial Achievement Inspired Through Him
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1925-09-06
- Active to
- 1976-08-29
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 272,695
- Total plays
- 1,858,092
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Mathis James "Jimmy" Reed (September 6, 1925 – August 29, 1976) was an American blues singer, guitarist, harmonica player and songwriter, notable for bringing his distinctive style of blues to mainstream audiences. Reed was a major player in the field of electric blues. His distinctive voice, piercing harmonica and hypnotic guitar patterns were one of the blues' most easily identifiable sounds in the 1950s and 1960s, and had a significant impact on many rock and roll artists who followed <a hre
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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· 2015 · cited 32,889x
- SSD: Single Shot MultiBox Detector
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- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,989x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,706x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- James
- Family name
- Reed
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of death
- Oakland
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Vee-Jay Records
- Image
- Jimmy Reed Vee-Jay press photo.jpg
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- medical condition
- epilepsy
- date of birth
- 1925-09-06
- date of death
- 1976-08-09
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- respiratory failure
- start of work period
- 1976-00-00
- birth name
- Mathis James Reed
- pseudonym
- Jimmy Reed
- Commons category
- Jimmy Reed
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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