http://rapidshare.com/files/123118212/Rockin__with_Reed.zip.html"Rockin' With Reed" was Jimmy Reed's second LP, released in 1959 on the VeeJay label, and featuring a strong track list. Most of Reed's best known songs came from his first album, "I'm Jimmy Reed", and from the later "Found Love", but there is a lot of really good stuff here, even if these titles aren't as well known as "Big Boss Man", "Shame, Shame, Shame", "Ain't That Lovin' You Baby" or "Honest I Do". This is nothing revolutionary, just half an hour of Reed's laid-back two-string boogie and drawling vocal delivery, but the catchy swagger of "Going To New York" and "My Bitter Seed", the easy, loping boogie of "The Moon Is Rising", and the deep, funky groove of "Take Out Some Insurance", are as instantly appealing as they are simple, and its not hard to understand why Jimmy Reed found the commercial succes that he did, outselling a number of arguably more talented but also less radio friendly bluesmen like Muddy Waters, Elmore James, and Howlin' Wolf. It's no secret that Mathis James Reed only had a limited arsenal of songs, which he played and recorded over and over again with small variations and different lyrics, but that particular "Jimmy Reed sound" is so immediately appealing and so easily digestable that it brought him a mainstream audience other blues singer only dreamt about.
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