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Jimmy McCracklin (August 13, 1921 – December 20, 2012) was an American pianist, vocalist, and songwriter. His style contained West Coast blues, Jump blues, and R&B. Over a career that spanned seven decades, he said he had written almost a thousand songs and had recorded hundreds of them. McCracklin recorded over 30 albums, and earned four gold records.

This song is by Jimmy McCracklin and appears on the album Blasting the Blues (1983). I don't want the city woman, she all too fastGive me a slow country girl with a lot of classSo I'm going, it's just a hop a skip and a jumpArkansas here I come, it's just a hop a skip and a jumpNow if I can't live independent, why live like a bumIt's just a hop a skip and a jump.

Jimmy McCracklin (James David Walker, St. Louis, Missouri, August 13, 1921 – San Pablo, California, December 20, 2012) was an American pianist, vocalist, harmonica player and songwriter. His style contained West Coast blues, Jump blues, and Rhythm & Blues.

Jimmy McCracklin was an American pianist, vocalist, and songwriter  . Posts about Jimmy McCracklin. McCracklin recorded over 30

Written-By – Jimmy McCracklin. Written-By – Deadric Malone, Jimmy McCracklin. 4. Keep It Like It Is. Written-By – Jimmy McCracklin. 5. It's Got To Be Love. My Story ‎(CD, Album).

Jimmy McCracklin played piano and sang in front of his band for over sixty years in styles ranging from West Coast Blues through R&B to Soul. In 1991, Jimmy recorded a great album, ‘My Story’ for the Bullseye Blues label which included nine new songs recorded with an all-star New Orleans studio band. Two duets with Irma Thomas showed his voice was still sweet and his piano style still fluid.

The blues singer and songwriter Jimmy McCracklin, who has died aged 91, was one of the last survivors of the west coast blues scene of the 1940s to 60s. On that wide and colourful stage, beside leading men such as T-Bone Walker and Lowell Fulson, he played the role of an agreeable character actor, purveying jaunty boogie songs and contemplative blues anecdotes. He was born in Helena, Arkansas, grew up in St Louis and Indianapolis, and for some years had a career in boxing. After serving in the US navy in the second world war, he settled in Oakland, California, and made his first recordings for tiny independent labels such as Globe, Trilon and Cava-Tone, sounding at first like a disciple of the contemplative 30s blues singer Walter Davis.