Jimmy Burns
James Olin Burns, born February 27, 1943 in Dublin, Mississippi, is a soul‑blues
singer-songwriter and guitarist. He learned guitar on the Hilliard Cotton
Plantation, sang in a church choir, and moved to Chicago at age 12, where he
joined the Medallionaires. His breakthrough came with the 1972 single "I Really
Love You", later listed among Northern soul’s top 500 in 2000. After a hiatus,
James Olin Burns returned in the early 1990s, recording Leaving Here Walking
(1996) for Delmark, earning a National Association of Independent Record
Distributors award; he followed with Night Ti...
