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50s Hillbilly / Country Bopper - Big State Records (Texas) 45-595 (Starday Custom)
JIMMY (J.D.) SIMPSON, have been born in the state, at Sullivan Hollow, Ashland City, some twenty odd miles from Nashville on 24th March 1928.
His vocal whilst being good is cleverly subtle, and the Luther Perkins type guitar work provide a solid base to assist a lightly touched steel man.
As was mentioned briefly at the start of this article, his family was involved in the construction business and this may have been the reason for his departure to Alaska in the late Fifties.
He soon got into radio working at both KBYR and KFAD in Anchorage.
In 1959 whilst on leave in Nashville he cut two tracks which he sent to Hank Harral’s Caprock setup in West Texas.
He did for him his first version of «I’m an Oil Field Boy».
It does seem that this may be how his Sixties discs were all cut as he also appeared on Starday itself with one of his bestsellers «The Alcan Run», a nice trucking number, and had at least two releases on their subsidiary Nashville in the early Sixties.
He also turns up on Sims in 1965.
His last known, to me at last, recordings were two LPs on his own Sourdough label entitled «Sings Alaska», on which Jimmy was involved in composing 11 out of the twelve songs, and «Sings of Iditarod trail», in 2003.
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50s Hillbilly / Country Bopper - Big State Records (Texas) 45-595 (Starday Custom)
JIMMY (J.D.) SIMPSON, have been born in the state, at Sullivan Hollow, Ashland City, some twenty odd miles from Nashville on 24th March 1928.
His vocal whilst being good is cleverly subtle, and the Luther Perkins type guitar work provide a solid base to assist a lightly touched steel man.
As was mentioned briefly at the start of this article, his family was involved in the construction business and this may have been the reason for his departure to Alaska in the late Fifties.
He soon got into radio working at both KBYR and KFAD in Anchorage.
In 1959 whilst on leave in Nashville he cut two tracks which he sent to Hank Harral’s Caprock setup in West Texas.
He did for him his first version of «I’m an Oil Field Boy».
It does seem that this may be how his Sixties discs were all cut as he also appeared on Starday itself with one of his bestsellers «The Alcan Run», a nice trucking number, and had at least two releases on their subsidiary Nashville in the early Sixties.
He also turns up on Sims in 1965.
His last known, to me at last, recordings were two LPs on his own Sourdough label entitled «Sings Alaska», on which Jimmy was involved in composing 11 out of the twelve songs, and «Sings of Iditarod trail», in 2003.
bopping.org/jimmy-simpson-the-oil-field-boy
#countrymusic #hillbillymusic #rockabilly
