Jimmy Burns & The Soul Message Band - Full Circle

Artiest/Band: Jimmy Burns & The Soul Message Band Album:  Full Circle Release 19th September 2025  Label: Delmark Records Format: CD/LP/DL/Vinyl Genre: Blues Curtis Mayfield meets Jimmy McGriff! Chicago Soul & Blues meets Chicago B3 organ swingin' jazz/blues grooves! This concept inspired Delmark to explore the historical recordings made by JIMMY BURNS when he was very young.......►►►

Jimmy Burns & The Soul Message Band - Full Circle - DELMARK 891 (digital download and CD)  

CD STREET DATE: September 19, 2025

 

Curtis Mayfield meets Jimmy McGriff! Chicago Soul & Blues meets Chicago B3 organ swingin' jazz/blues grooves! This concept inspired Delmark to explore the historical recordings made by JIMMY BURNS when he was very young. The records were originally released as 45 rpm vinyl split singles from Jimmy in the '60's, at the time so popular among music fans and venues with jukeboxes.  Jimmy also proposed a list of songs he always liked; songs that brought back nice warm memories, such as the two blues: Big Joe Turner’s World of Trouble, and Lil’ Son Jackson’s Rock Me Mama, as well as Express Yourself, a powerful tune by Charles Wright, who was also–like Jimmy–a Clarksdale, Mississippi area native. That’s how JIMMY BURNS has come FULL CIRCLE. 

 

Fimmy Burns & The Soul Message Band
Full Circle (CD and digital download)
Delmark 891, 2025

 

with SOUL MESSAGE BAND: Chris Foreman - Hammond B3 organ Greg Rockingham - drums Lee Rothenberg - guitar (all tracks, except 4 & 8) Geof Bradfield - tenor sax (2, 3, 7, 9) Greg Jung - alto sax (4 & 8) with special guests: Typhanie Monique - vocals (3, 5, 6, 7) Steve Eisen - baritone sax (1, 5, 6) & tenor sax (1, 6)

Tracklist 1 Express Yourself 4:19 2 World of Trouble 6:28 3 I Really Love You 4:28 4 Ain’t That Funk for You 5:41 5 Too Much Lovin’ 4:26 6 Give Her To Me 4:38 7 It Use To Be 4:32 8 Since I Fell for You 6:46 9 Rock Me Mama 4:29 10 Where Does That Leave Me? 4:55 Jimmy Burns - vocals (all tracks) & guitar (9)

1) EXPRESS YOURSELF (4:19) (Charles W. Wright)
(Music Power, Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Group Corp, BMI)
2) WORLD OF TROUBLE (6:28) (Big Joe Turner) (BMI)
3) I REALLY LOVE YOU (4:28) (Robert Newsome)
(Moo-Lah Publ. Co., BMI)
4) AIN'T THAT FUNK FOR YOU (5:41) (Albert Grey)
(Second Floor Music, BMI)
5) TOO MUCH LOVIN' (4:26) (Lowman Pauling)
(Fort Knox Music Inc, Trio Music Company, BMI)
6) GIVE HER TO ME (4:38) (Charles Colbert)
(Author Music, Inc., BMI)
7) IT USED TO BE (4:32) (James Olin Burns)
(Silver Fox Productions Inc, BMI)
8) SINCE I FELL FOR YOU (6:46)
(Woodrow Buddy Johnson) (Warner Bros. Inc, ASCAP)
9) ROCK ME MAMA (4:29) (Melvin "Lil' Son" Jackson)
(EMI Unart Catalogue Inc, BMI)
10) WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE ME? (4:55)
(Barry George Despenza & Gregory C. Washington)
(Despen Music Co, BMI)
executive production and supervision by Julia A. Miller and Elbio Barilari, produced by Elbio Barilari
Recorded at Delmark Records Riverside Studio on July 28-29, 2023 and May 12, 2025
engineered and mastered by Julia A. Miller at Delmark Records' Riverside Studio
mixed by Elbio Barilari and Julia A. Miller

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 Discography

Leaving Here Walking (1996) – Delmark
Night Time Again (1999) – Delmark
Back to the Delta (2003) – Delmark
Stuck In The Middle (2011) – Velrone
It Ain’t Right (2015) – Delmark
Live at B.L.U.E.S. (2007) – Delmark

Singles
“Forget It” (1964) – USA Records
“Give Her To Me” (1965) – Tip Top Records
“You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone” (1966) – Tip Top Records
“I Don’t Need (Your Help)” (1966) – Tip Top Records
“I Tried” (1970) – Minit Records
“I Really Love You” (1972) – Erica Records
“Can’t Get Over” (1980) – Dispo Records EP