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For Louisiana bluesman Leon Atkins, better known as Lil’ Jimmy Reed, that is a story 84 years in the making. His story began in Hardwood, Louisiana, a sawmill and cotton town along the banks of the Mississippi River. Lil’ Jimmy grew up in Hardwood in a shotgun shack in the 1930s, across the street from a nightclub. He would listen to icons like Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and Jimmy Reed play the blues into the night and dream of following in their footsteps. When he was 16 years old, his father bought him his first real guitar and as Lil’ Jimmy puts it, “My Daddy bought me a guitar on a Monday and Saturday night I was in the club playing.”
Lil’ Jimmy began writing his own music the moment he started playing. “Writing music ain’t nothing but a rhyme. Especially with blues,” Lil’ Jimmy says. “Whatever you say the first time, you’re going to say it again. Then you make it rhyme, and you got you a song.”
He started out in Baton Rouge’s blues scene, earning his moniker one night when he filled in for Jimmy Reed. His strong voice, whining harmonica and effortless guitar work epitomize the soul of blues music. Lil’ Jimmy plays by ear; if he hears a song he likes, he can play it within five minutes.
