Guitariste US, né John Ivy Bryant Jr, le 5 mars 1925 à Moultrie (Georgie).
Jimmy Bryant est décédé le 22 septembre 1980.
With steel
guitar wizard Speedy West, guitarist
Jimmy Bryant formed half of the hottest country guitar duo of the 1950s. With
lightning speed and a jazz-fueled taste for improvisation and adventure,
Bryant's boogies, polkas, and Western swing — recorded with
West and as a solo artist — remain among
the most exciting instrumental country recordings of all time. Bryant also waxed
major contributions to the early recordings of singers like
Tennessee Ernie Ford,
Merrill Moore, Kay Starr, Billy May, and
Ella Mae Morse, and has influenced
country guitarists like Buck Owens,
James Burton, and Albert Lee. While he
enjoyed a career that spanned several decades, it was his sessions with Capitol
Records in the early '50s that allowed him his fullest freedom to strut his
stuff.Bryant was a prodigy on the fiddle while growing up in Georgia and
Florida. He only took up guitar when he got wounded while serving in the Army in
1945, mastering the instrument quickly during his recuperation. In the late
1940s he moved to Los Angeles, hooking up in jam sessions with
West, the first pedal steel guitarist in
country music. Bryant soon joined a group of musicians, also including
West, that played on
Cliffie Stone's Hometown Jamboree
radio show, and the
West connection also helped him land session work at Capitol Records (though
he'd previously done a bit of work for Modern Records). It was only natural that
he and West began to record under their
own names for Capitol too, while continuing to back other's acts in the studio.
During this time Bryant was also one of the first musicians of note to play the
electric Telecaster, a model that's become legendary and hugely influential in
the sound of the electric guitar throughout popular music.Bryant became harder
to work with by the mid-1950s, in part because of his heavy drinking, and he did
his last Capitol recordings with West in
late 1956. He'd never be as active in the studio again, and most fans regard his
1950s Capitol output as his best by far. But he did continue to play live and in
the studio, doing quite a bit of obscure recordings in the 1960s in Hollywood
and Nashville, mostly for the Imperial label. (A lot of his post-West
material finally found wide circulation in 2003 with Sundazed's three-CD box set
Frettin' Fingers: The Lightning Guitar of Jimmy Bryant, which was about
evenly divided between the Westt
and post-Westeras). He only did a little
recording after the 1960s, dying of cancer in September 1980 back in his native
Georgia.
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Talents : Guitar, Fiddle, Songwriter, Singer, Actor
Style musical : Traditional Country, Instrumental Country
OLD JOE CLARK
 (with
Speedy West)
SLEEP WALKER'S LULLABY
YODELING GUITAR
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Années en activité :
| 1910 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 2000 |
DISCOGRAPHIE
Singles & EP
| 1950 | SP CAPITOL 1275 (US) | . | Bryants' Boogie (Speedy WEST) / Leetie Juan Pedro |
| 1951 | SP CAPITOL 1765 (US) | . | Liberty Bell Polka (Speedy WEST) / T-Bone Rag |
| 1952 | SP CAPITOL 2057 (US) | . | Bryant's Shuffle / Yodelling Guitar |
| 1952 | SP CAPITOL 2160 (US) | . | Georgia Steel Guitar / Midnight Ramble |
| 1952 | SP CAPITOL 2310 (US) | . | Pickin' The Chicken / Comin' On (Speedy WEST) |
| 1953 | SP CAPITOL 2444 (US) | . | Speedy WEST & Jimmy BRYANT - Bryant's Bounce / Serenade To A Frog |
| 1953 | SP CAPITOL 2519 (US) | . | Speedy WEST & Jimmy BRYANT - Speedin' West / Skiddle Dee Boo |
| 1953 | SP CAPITOL 2675 (US) | . | Speedy WEST & Jimmy BRYANT - Sunset / This Ain't The Blues |
| 1954 | SP CAPITOL 2762 (US) | . | Speedy WEST & Jimmy BRYANT - Jammin' With Jimmy / Hometown Polka |
| 1954 | SP CAPITOL 2964 (US) | . | Speedy WEST & Jimmy BRYANT - Stratosphere Boogie / Deep Water |
| 1954 | SP CAPITOL 2982 (US) | . | Speedy WEST & Jimmy BRYANT - Bustin' Thru / Our Paradise |
| 1954 | EP CAPITOL EAP-1-520 (US) |
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Speedy WEST & Jimmy BRYANT - 2 GUITARS COUNTRY STYLE |
| 1954 | EP CAPITOL EAP-2-520 (US) |
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Speedy WEST & Jimmy BRYANT - 2 GUITARS COUNTRY STYLE |
| 1955 | SP CAPITOL 3026 (US) | . | Speedy WEST & Jimmy BRYANT - West Of Samoa / Flippin' The Lid |
| 1955 | SP CAPITOL 3150 (US) | . | Speedy WEST & Jimmy BRYANT - Cotton Pickin' / Sleepwalkers Lullaby |
| 1955 | SP CAPITOL 3208 (US) | . | Speedy WEST & Jimmy BRYANT - Steelin' Moonlight / Caffeine Patrol |
| 1955 | SP CAPITOL 3276 (US) | . | Speedy WEST & Jimmy BRYANT - Frettin Fingers / Chatterbox |
| 1956 | SP CAPITOL 3348 (US) | . | Speedy WEST & Jimmy BRYANT - Shuffleboard Rag / Yankee Clover |
| 1956 | SP CAPITOL 3454 (US) | . | Speedy WEST & Jimmy BRYANT - Pickin' Peppers / Pushin' The Blues |
| 1956 | SP CAPITOL 3537 (US) | . | Speedy WEST & Jimmy BRYANT - Water Baby Blues / Sand Canyon Swing |
| 1957 | SP CAPITOL 3635 (US) | . | Speedy WEST & Jimmy BRYANT - Night Rider / Rolling Sky |
| 1960 | EP CAPITOL EAP-1-1314 (US) |
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Speedy WEST & Jimmy BRYANT - COUNTRY CABIN JAZZ |
| 1966 | SP IMPERIAL 66176 (US) | . | Julie's Gone / Lonesome |
| 1967 | SP IMPERIAL 66219 (US) | . | ORVILLE & IVY - Shinbone / Tabasco Road (ORVILLE = Speedy WEST / IVY = Jimmy BRYANT) |
| 1967 | SP IMPERIAL 66235 (US) | . | Lazy Guitar / Tabasco Road |
| 1967 | SP IMPERIAL 66249 (US) | . | ORVILLE & IVY - Please Pass The Biscuits / Slow Poke(ORVILLE = Speedy WEST / IVY = Jimmy BRYANT) |
Albums
| 1954 | LP 10" CAPITOL H-520 (F) |
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SPEEDY WEST & JIMMY BRYANT - Hop, Skip And Jump / Old Joe Clark / Blue Bonnet Rag / Low Man On A Totem Pole Country Capers / This Is Southland / Arkansas Traveller / Swingin' On The Strings | ||||
| 1954 | LP 12" CAPITOL T-520 (F) |
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2 GUITARS COUNTRY STYLE - (Speedy WEST & Jimmy BRYANT) | ||||
| 1960 | LP 12" CAPITOL T-1314 (mono) / ST-1314 (stereo) (F) |
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COUNTRY CABIN JAZZ - (Speedy WEST & Jimmy BRYANT) | ||||
| 1966 | LP 12" IMPERIAL LP-12310 (US) |
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BRYANT'S BACK IN TOWN - Peach Grove Express / Elena Goodbye / Rattle Dance / Fraulein / Scottish Eagle / Blow Your Hat In The Creek / Buggy Ride / Lonesome / Fender Bender / Happy Guitar / Julie's Gone / Model 400 Buckboard | ||||
| 1966 | LP 12" STETSON HAT 3137 (UK) |
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BRYANT'S BACK IN TOWN - Peach Grove Express / Elena Goodbye / Rattle Dance / Fraulein / Scottish Eagle / Blow Your Hat In The Creek / Buggy Ride / Lonesome / Fender Bender / Happy Guitar / Julie's Gone / Model 400 Buckboard | ||||
| 1966 | LP 12" IMPERIAL LP-12315 (US) |
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LAUGHING GUITAR, CRYING GUITAR - Laughing Guitar / Joy Ride / Spanish Two-Step / Freight Train Take Me Home / Shivaree Mountain / Corn Ball / Crying Guitar / I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry / Crying In The Chapel / Why Should I Cry / Laughing Face Crying Heart / The Heart Of A Clown | ||||
| 1967 | LP 12" IMPERIAL LP-12338 (US) |
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WE ARE YOUNG - For We Are Young / Island Of Corina / Tabasco Road / Moody Afternoon / Melissa / Come Alive Polka / Little Star / Pedro's Guitar / Long Walk Home / Lazy Guitar / Whistle Stop / Rapid Transit | ||||
| 1967 | LP 12" IMPERIAL LP-12349 (US) |
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WINGING IT WITH NORVEL & IVY - Shinbone / Slow Poke / Buckaroo / Tabasco Road / Please Pass The Biscuits / Cotton Fields / Cotton Pickin' / Waterloo / Yakety-Axe / Oh Lonesome Me / Trevor's Theme / Flowers On The Wall | ||||
| 1967 | LP 12" IMPERIAL LP-12360 (US) |
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THE FASTEST GUITAR IN THE COUNTRY - 12th Street Rag / Little Rock Getaway / Caravan / Down Yonder / Georgia Boogie / Orange Blossom Special / Tico-Tico / Indiana (Back Home Again In Indiana) / 10 Wheels / Stumbling / Voxwagon / Sugarfoot Rag | ||||
| 1967 | LP 12" DOLTON BST-17505 (US) |
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PLAY COUNTRY GUITAR WITH JIMMY BRYANT (GUITAR PHONICS, VOLUME 5) - Guitar lessons by the Guitar Phonics System : Wildwood Flower / Columbus Stockade Blues / Boogie For Guitar / Steel Guitar Rag | ||||
| 1967 | LP 12" SUNSET SUM-1185 (mono) / SUS-5185 (stereo) (US) |
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RELEASE ME - Jimmy BRYANT & Glenn KEENER - Release Me / Make The World Go Away / Am I Losing You / Missing You / Lock, Stock And Teardrops / 4 Walls / Still / Am I That Easy To Forget / Just Out Of Reach / When 2 Worlds Collide | ||||
| 1984 | LP 12" PATHE MARCONI 155 0831 (F) |
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2 GUITARS COUNTRY STYLE - (Speedy WEST & Jimmy BRYANT) - Serenade To A Frog / Georgia Steel Guitar / Bryant's Bounce / Midnight Ramble / Hop, Skip And Jump / Blue Bonnet Rag / Low Man On A Totem Pole / Old Joe Clark / Country Capers / This Is Southland / Swingin' On The Strings / Arkansas Traveler | ||||
| 1988 | LP 12" STETSON HAT 3078 (UK) |
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COUNTRY CABIN JAZZ | ||||
| 1989 | LP 12" SEE FOR MILES 267 (UK) |
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GUITAR TAKE-OFF | ||||
| 1990 | LP 12" STEP ONE SOR-0062 (US) |
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FOR THE LAST TIME - (Speedy WEST & Jimmy BRYANT) - Moonlight Valley / Boogie Man / West Is Calling / On The Move / Speedy Recovery / Chase / Wound Tight / Jumpin' Jeepers / Rolling Sky / Lazy Guitar | ||||
| 05/1995 | CD RAZOR & TIE 82067 (US) |
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STRATOSPHERE BOOGIE - THE FLAMING GUITAR OF SPEEDY WEST & JIMMY BRYANT - Stratosphere Boogie / Blue Bonnet Rag / Cotton Pickin' / Old Joe Clark / Sleepwalker's Lullaby / Arkansas Traveler / The Night Rider / Low Man On A Totem Pole / Speedin' West / Comin' On / Bryant's Bounce / Midnight Ramble / Pickin' Peppers / Shuffleboard Rag / Bustin' Thru / Flippin' The Lid | ||||
| 05/1997 | 4 CD BEAR FAMILY BCD 15956 (D) |
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FLAMIN' GUITARS - (Speedy
WEST & Jimmy BRYANT) :
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| 03/1999 | CD RAZOR & TIE 82192 (US) |
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SWINGIN' ON THE STRINGS - (Speedy WEST & Jimmy BRYANT) - Frettin' Fingers / Lover / Two Of A Kind / Yodeling Guitar / West Of Samoa / Opus 1 / Truck Driver's Ride / T-Bone Rag / Skiddle-Dee-Boo / China Boy / Railroadin' / Jammin' With Jimmy / Deep Water / This Ain't The Blues / Rolling Sky / Whistle Stop / Hillcrest (Opus 3) / Pushin' The Blues / Swinging' On The Strings / Caffeine Patrol | ||||
| 11/2000 | CD JASMINE 3515 (UK) |
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THERE'S GONNA BE A PARTY - (Speedy WEST & Jimmy BRYANT) - Lover / Blue Bonnet Rag / There's Gonna Be A Party For The Old Folks / Tag Along / Birth Of The Blues / Missouri Waltz / Speedin' West / Indian Love Call / Cracker Jack / Limehouse Blues / Arkansas Traveler / Whistle Stop / T-Bone Rag / Sleepwalker's Lullaby / Two of a Kind / Country Capers / Honolulu / I Love You So Much It Hurts / This Ain't The Blues / Texas Playboy Rag / Kentucky Waltz / Flippin' The Lid / Let The Rest Of The World Go By / Railroadin' / I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) / Skiddle-Dee-Boo / Hop, Skip And Jump / Snow Deer / Dragging The Steel / Comedy With Tennessee Ernie Ford | ||||
| 12/2003 | CD SUNDAZED ? (US) |
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FRETTIN' FINGERS - THE LIGHTNING GUITAR OF
JIMMY BRYANT :
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