# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jimmy-mccracklin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:28:11.313Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jimmy-mccracklin"
name: "Jimmy McCracklin"
slug: "jimmy-mccracklin"
description: "James David Walker Jr., better known by his stage name Jimmy McCracklin, was an American pianist, singer, and songwriter. His style contained West Coast blues, Jump blues, and R&B. Over a career that spanned seven decades, he said he had written almost a thousand songs and had recorded hundreds of them. McCracklin recorded over 30 albums, and earned four gold records. Tom Mazzolini of the San Francisco Blues Festival said of him, \"He was probably the most important musician to come out of the Bay Area in the post-World War II years.\""
tagline: "American pianist, vocalist, and songwriter (1921-2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jimmy_Mc_Cracklin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1921-08-13"
deathDate: "2012-12-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.86
  momentum:             10.20288324116075
  historical:           10.95255733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1893512/"
    handle:    "nm1893512"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jimmymccracklin.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "چيمى مكراكلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McCracklin"
    title: "Jimmy McCracklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McCracklin"
    title: "Jimmy McCracklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McCracklin"
    title: "Jimmy McCracklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McCracklin"
    title: "Jimmy McCracklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McCracklin"
    title: "Jimmy McCracklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McCracklin"
    title: "Jimmy McCracklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ジミー・マクラクリン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McCracklin"
    title: "Jimmy McCracklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McCracklin"
    title: "Jimmy McCracklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BC%D1%96_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BD"
    title: "Джиммі Маккреклін"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/497acfd9-091f-4405-a603-0623d099cc1d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q743642"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump