Name: Burglary in Progress by msdeltarecords
Duration: 5 min 8 s
Description: The Clarksdale Sessions (produced by Grammy nominated Gary Vincent at The Clarksdale Soundstage) features songs which take Bill Howl-N-Madd Perry into new territory musically. His songs Saturday Night, Delta Women, and Reason to Believe as well as others on the CD are already becoming big hits with the fans.

Recording this album in the B.B. King Recording studio at MVSU was somewhat special for everyone involved in the project and recording the songs was fun! In the studio each song stimulated lots of storytelling about life on the road.  It was hard for the musicians to quit talking and get back to recording after each break. The songs are timely, fun, thought provoking and danceable.

Jimmi Mayes is from Jackson, MS.  He was performing with the top professionals before he was twenty-one years old. Jimmi was inducted into the Chicago Blues Hall of Fame in 2016.  The Shuffle is his trademark style on the drums. As you listen to My Whole Life’s A Shuffle you will be reminded with each song of some aspect of Jimmi Mayes life as he has performed nationally and internationally.

Jimmi Mayes played & toured with blues legends like Little Walter, Jimmy Reed, Pinetop Perkins, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, and Robert Junior Lockwood. He backed Marvin Gaye and became the bandleader for Joey Dee & the Starliters during the time Joey Dee had the monster hit the “Peppermint Twist”.  Jimmi performed with Martha Reeves and The Vandellas.  He became good friends with Jimi Hendrix and eventually he was asked to record with Jimi Hendrix.  He is on four of Hendrix’s albums.  Jimmi Mayes has lived and is living a story that had to be told. The Amazing Jimmi Mayes “Sideman to The Stars” was published by University Press of Mississippi in 2014. The book goes into detail about Jimmi Mayes unforgettable life story.  He has also released an extensive catalogue of   music. His recent releases are Still Carrying the Flame released in 2015 by the Original Legends of the Blues featuring Jimmi on three of the tracts. In 2012 All My Best by Jimmi Mayes was released on Wolf Records and in 2004 Messin’ with the Kid was released on Depo Records, Chicago.

Dreaming Of A Blues Train

The Clarksdale Sessions (produced by Grammy nominated Gary Vincent at The Clarksdale Soundstage) features songs which take Bill Howl-N-Madd Perry into new territory musically. His songs Saturday Night, Delta Women, and Reason to Believe as well as others on the CD are already becoming big hits with the fans.

Clarksdale Sessions

Burglary in Progress

recorded Live by Brian DaSilva
Photo by Dave Blake

Bill Howl - N - Madd Perry ~ Willie Mae

Mississippi Delta  Records is a record label specializing in Blues and American Roots Music. Carol Marble is a voting member of the Recording Academy, a corporate member of the Blues Foundation, a founding member of the Mississippi Delta Blues Society of Indianola and the Central Mississippi Blues Society. Mississippi Delta Blues Inc. works with professional musicians who perform nationally and internationally and create music drawing from their love of the blues and gospel as it influences many genre's of music.

Burglary in Progress

msdeltarecords

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