Birth name Hammie Nickerson Labels Victor Records | Occupation(s) Musician Name Hammie Nixon | |
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Born January 22, 1908Brownsville, Tennessee, United States ( 1908-01-22 ) Record label Victor Talking Machine Company Albums Mandolin Blues, Legendary Country Blues Artists - CD A Similar People Sleepy John Estes, Yank Rachell, Charlie Pickett, Bob Koester | ||
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Hammie Nixon (January 22, 1908 – August 17, 1984) was an American harmonica player.
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Life and career
Born Hammie Nickerson in Brownsville, Tennessee, he began his music career with jug bands in the 1920s and is best known as a country blues harmonica player, but also played the kazoo, guitar and jug. He played with guitarist Sleepy John Estes for half a century, first recording with Estes in 1929 for the Victor Records label. He also recorded with Little Buddy Doyle, Lee Green, Clayton T. Driver, Charlie Pickett and Son Bonds.
During the 1920s Nixon helped to pioneer the use of the harmonica as a rhythm instrument in a band setting, rather than as a novelty solo instrument. After Estes died in 1979, Nixon played with the Beale Street Jug Band (also called the Memphis Jug Band). Nixon's last recording, "Tappin' That Thing" (Hmg Records), was recorded shortly before his death in 1984, in Jackson, Tennessee.
Songs
Tappin' That Thing
You're Gonna Look Like a Monkey When You Get Old
Viola Lee Blues
Holy Spirit - Don't Leave Me
You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone
Brownsville Blues
My Baby Left Town
Skinny Mama
Sugar Mama Blues
It's a Good Place to Go
Hammie's Windy Blues
Soon One Morning
Jesus on the Main Line
Trouble Trouble Blues
She Keeps Me Worried and Bothered All the Time
Somebody Done Changed That Little Lock On My Door
Sweet Old Kokomo [feat Memphis Piano Red]
Yellow Yam Blues [feat Sleepy John Estes]
Holy Spirit - Don't You Leave Me
Meet Me in the Bottom
Worried Life Blues
I Can't Afford to Do It
Untitled Instrumental
So Glad I'm Living
Ida Mae
So Long Blues
Corrine - Corrina
I Want To Live So God Can Use Me
Weary Worried Blues
Hammie Nixon's Boogie
Last Night
Good Morning - School Girl