Jimmy Rogers.

Jimmy Rogers (June 3, 1924 – December 19, 1997) was a blues singer, guitarist and

harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters' band of the 1950s

Jimmy Rogers was born James A. Lane in Ruleville, Mississippi, on June 3, 1924, and was

raised in Atlanta, Georgia and Memphis, Tennessee.[3] He adapted the professional surname

'Rogers' from his stepfather's last name. Rogers learned the harmonica alongside his

childhood friend Snooky Pryor, and as a teenager took up the guitar and played professionally

in East St. Louis, Illinois (where he played with Robert Lockwood, Jr., among others), before

moving to Chicago in the mid 1940s.[citation needed] By 1946 he had recorded his first record

as a harmonica player and singer for the Harlem record label, run by J. Mayo Williams. Rogers'

name did not appear on the record, which was mislabeled as the work of "Memphis Slim and

his Houserockers."