Editing Jimmy Rogers (section)

==Career==
Rogers was born Jay{{sfn|Eagle|LeBlanc|2013|p=196}} or James{{sfn|Dahl|1996|p=226}} Arthur Lane in [[Ruleville, Mississippi]], on June 3, 1924. He was raised in [[Atlanta, Georgia|Atlanta]] and [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]].{{sfn|Harris|1979|p=442}} He adopted his stepfather's surname.{{sfn|Russell|1997|p=161}} He learned to play the harmonica with his childhood friend [[Snooky Pryor]], and as a teenager he took up the guitar. He played professionally in [[East St. Louis, Illinois]], with [[Robert Lockwood, Jr.]], among others.{{sfn|Palmer|1982|p=200}} Rogers moved to Chicago in the mid-1940s.{{sfn|Gordon|2002|p=74}} By 1946, he had recorded as a harmonica player and singer for the Harlem record label, run by [[J. Mayo Williams]]. Rogers's name did not appear on the record, which was mislabeled as the work of [[Memphis Slim]] and His Houserockers.

In 1947, Rogers, [[Muddy Waters]] and [[Little Walter]] began playing together, forming Waters's first band in Chicago{{sfn|Palmer|1982|p=15}} (sometimes referred to as the Headcutters or the Headhunters, because of their practice of stealing jobs from other local bands).{{sfn|Palmer|1982|p=208}} The band members recorded and released music credited to each of them as solo artists. The band defined the sound of the nascent [[Chicago blues]] style (more specifically, South Side Chicago blues). Rogers recorded several sides of his own with small labels in [[Chicago]], but none were released at the time. He began to achieve success as a solo artist in 1950, with the song "[[That's All Right (Jimmy Rogers song)|That's All Right]]", released by [[Chess Records]], but he stayed in Waters's band until 1954.{{sfn|Russell|1997|p=161}} In the mid-1950s he had several successful records released by Chess, most of them featuring either [[Little Walter]] or [[Big Walter Horton]] on harmonica, notably "Walking by Myself".<ref>{{cite web|url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p350/biography|pure_url=yes}}|title=Good Rockin' Charles|last=Dahl|first=Bill|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=November 23, 2011}}</ref> In the late 1950s, as interest in the blues waned, he gradually withdrew from the music industry.<ref name="LarkinBlues">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Who's Who of Blues]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1995|edition=Second|isbn=0-85112-673-1|pages=309/311}}</ref>

In the early 1960s, Rogers briefly worked as a member of [[Howlin' Wolf|Howling Wolf]]'s band, before quitting the music business altogether for almost a decade.<ref name="LarkinBlues"/> He worked as a taxicab driver and owned a clothing store, which burned down in the [[1968 Chicago riots]] following the [[assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.]]  Rogers gradually began performing in public again, and in 1971, when fashions made him somewhat popular in [[Europe]], he began occasionally touring and recording, including a 1977 session with Waters which resulted in the album ''[[I'm Ready (Muddy Waters album)|I'm Ready]]''.<ref name="LarkinBlues"/> By 1982, Rogers was again a full-time solo artist. He continued touring and recording albums until his death.

In 1995, Rogers was inducted into the [[Blues Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.blues.org/halloffame/inductees.php4?YearId=10| title = 1995 Hall of Fame Inductees: Jimmy Rogers| website = The [[Blues Foundation]]| access-date = October 27, 2008| url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090210120243/http://blues.org/halloffame/inductees.php4?YearId=10 | archive-date = February 10, 2009 }}</ref> His song "That's All Right" was inducted by the organization in 2016 as a "Classic of Blues Recording", which identified it as a blues standard.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://blues.org/2016-blues-hall-of-fame-inductees/| title = 2016 Hall of Fame Inductees: Jimmy Rogers – "That's All Right" (Chess, 1950)| website = The [[Blues Foundation]]| date = September 14, 2016| access-date = March 1, 2017}}</ref>

Rogers died of [[Colorectal cancer|colon cancer]] in [[Chicago]] in 1997.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/20/arts/jimmy-rogers-73-guitarist-specializing-in-electric-blues.html|title=Jimmy Rogers, 73, Guitarist Specializing in Electric Blues|newspaper=New York Times|date=December 20, 1997}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1997/12/21/jimmy-rogers-bluesman-who-teamed-with-waters/|title=JIMMY ROGERS, BLUESMAN WHO TEAMED WITH WATERS|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=December 21, 1997}}</ref><ref name="Over">{{Cite web|url=https://themusicsover.com/2009/12/19/jimmy-rogers/|title=Died On This Date (December 19, 1997) Jimmy Rogers / Played With Muddy Waters |website=Themusicisover.com|date=December 19, 2009 |access-date=March 10, 2021}}</ref> He was survived by his son, [[Jimmy D. Lane]], a guitarist, [[record producer]] and [[audio engineering|recording engineer]] for Blue Heaven Studios and APO Records.