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Jimmy Dotson
Jimmy Dotson is credited on 60 releases across 18 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1968–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
60
Pressings credited
18
Albums
7
Decades active
3
In collections
Biography
James Dent Dotson (October 19, 1933 – March 26, 2017), sometimes known as Jimmy "Louisiana" Dotson, was an American blues singer, guitarist and drummer. His best known track was "I Need Your Love", a song he co-wrote with Jerry West. Over a sixty-year career, Dotson played alongside Silas Hogan, Lightnin' Slim, Slim Harpo, Lazy Lester, Albert King, O. V. Wright, Rufus Thomas, Ivory Joe Hunter, Buddy Guy, Son Seals, and Isaac Hayes. He released three singles on different record labels between 1959 and 1963.
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Credited work
60 releases · 18 albums · active 1968–2023
- Performance · 65
- Production · 3
Studios: Muscle Shoals Sound Studios · Fame Recording Studios · Independent Recorders · MGM Recording Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Wilson Pickett
- O.V. Wright
- Otis Clay
- Various
- Syl Johnson
- Donny Osmond
- George Jackson (3)
- Spencer Wiggins
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