Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis

Davis was born Charles W. Thompson, in Tippo, Mississippi. The album also included a track from another Chicago street performer, John Lee Granderson, and more established artists, such as Robert Nighthawk, Big Walter Horton, and Johnny "Man" Young. The music journalist Tony Russell wrote that it was "music of great charm and honesty". He recorded several tracks for various labels over the years, without commercial success. He continued to play alfresco on Chicago's West Side for decades. Davis died of a heart attack in December 1995, in his adopted hometown of Chicago. He was 70 years old. A 1989 photograph of Davis performing on Maxwell Street appeared on the front cover of BluesSpeak: The Best of the Original Chicago Blues Annual, published in 2010. ==Discography==

Albums Compilation albums ==References==