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- Artist: Jimmy Dawkins
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- Release Date: 1969
- Total Time: 50:11
- Genre: Blues
Review
First released in 1969, after guitarist Jimmy Dawkins had served a long apprenticeship as a sideman in the Chicago electric blues scene, Fast Fingers remains one of the finest pure electric blues albums of its era. Dawkins proves to be a solid songwriter and an able singer, although the best moments on the album invariably come when he tears off a casually perfect, deeply soulful, but never showy electric solo. Highlights include the stomping instrumental "Triple Trebles," featuring an outstanding Dawkins solo over a funky horn-driven rhythm, and the mellow, laid-back opener, "It Serves Me Right to Suffer." The album was finally reissued on CD in 1998 with a new cover and two fine outtakes from the original sessions, "Sad and Blues" (which features an exceptional extended solo by Dawkins) and "Back Home Blues," which is a 1969 recording with a new (1998) vocal by Dawkins. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| It Serves Me Right to Suffer | Jimmy Dawkins | Jimmy Dawkins | (4:07) |
| I Wonder Why | Jimmy Dawkins | Jimmy Dawkins | (3:05) |
| I'm Good for Nothing | Jimmy Dawkins | Jimmy Dawkins | (5:12) |
| Triple Trebles | Jimmy Dawkins | Jimmy Dawkins | (2:42) |
| I Finally Learned a Lesson | Jimmy Dawkins | Jimmy Dawkins | (3:43) |
| You Got to Keep on Trying | Jimmy Dawkins | Jimmy Dawkins | (4:12) |
| Night Rock | Jimmy Dawkins | Jimmy Dawkins | (3:26) |
| Little Angel Child | Jimmy Dawkins | Jimmy Dawkins | (3:55) |
| I Don't Know What Love Is | Jimmy Dawkins | Jimmy Dawkins | (5:57) |
| Breaking Down | Jimmy Dawkins | Jimmy Dawkins | (5:31) |
| Sad and Blues [#] | Jimmy Dawkins | Jimmy Dawkins | (4:51) |
| Back Home Blues [#] | Jimmy Dawkins | Jimmy Dawkins | (3:30) |
