Big Jack Johnson – Catfish Blues

Big Jack Johnson

When Is Mama Comin’ House Contemporary Mississippi blues didn’t get any nastier than in Large Jack Johnson’s qualified hands. The ex-oil common carrier’s axe cut like a rusty machete, his rough-hewn vocals a siren phone call to Delta interest. But he was a surprisingly versatile songwriter; Father, When Is Mama Comin’ Residence, his ambitious 1990 set for Earwig, discovered him taking on problems as varied as AIDS, other half misuse, and Chinese blues artists before slick, horn-leavened setups.
Huge Jack Johnson was a chip off the old block musically. His dad was a local musician playing both blues as well as country ditties at neighborhood features; by the time he was 13 years old, Johnson was sitting in on guitar with his papa’s band. At age 18, Johnson was complying with B.B. King’s electrified lead. His luck came when he rested in with bluesmen Frank Frost and Sam Carr at the Savoy Cinema in Clarksdale. The proportion among the trio members was such that they were rarely apart for the next 15 years, taping for Philips International as well as Gem with Frost, the bandleader.

Rockin’ the Juke Joint Down Chicago blues enthusiast Michael Frank was so enthralled by the trio’s strength when he heard them playing in 1975 at Johnson’s Mississippi bar, the Black Fox, that Frank Frost ultimately developed Earwig just to catch their balmy collection. The resulting cd, Rockin’ the Juke Joint Down, appeared in 1979 (as by the Jelly Roll Kings) as well as marked Johnson’s first recordings as a singer. Johnson’s succeeding 1987 album for Earwig, The Oil Man, still rates as one of his most intense and relocating, sporting a hair-raising performance of “Catfish Blues.”.
We Reached Stop This Killin’ The ’90s excelled to Johnson. In addition to Dad, When Is Mama Comin’ Residence, he released a real-time document as well as two center albums– 1996’s We Got to Stop This Killin’ and 1998’s Right Back. He additionally appeared in the acclaimed film documentary Deep Blues and on its resulting soundtrack, returning in 2000 with Roots Stew. The new millennium saw Johnson proceeding as an energetic entertainer and also recording artist, collaborating with Kim Wilson on 2002’s The Memphis Barbeque Procedure and also launching Katrina, his “homage to the land, individuals, and also spirit of Mississippi,” in 2009. Unfortunately, Big Jack Johnson was in disease as the decade drew to a close and the 2010s began, as well as he died at age 70 in a Memphis hospital on March 14, 2011.

Father, When Is Mama Comin’ Home Contemporary Mississippi blues didn’t get any kind of nastier than in Large Jack Johnson’s capable hands. Rockin’ the Juke Joint Down Chicago blues fanatic Michael Frank was so enthralled by the trio’s strength when he heard them playing in 1975 at Johnson’s Mississippi bar, the Black Fox, that Frank Frost at some point formed Earwig simply to catch their balmy repertoire. Johnson’s subsequent 1987 cd for Earwig, The Oil Guy, still places as one of his most intense as well as relocating, showing off a hair-raising performance of “Catfish Blues.”.

 

 

 

Big Jack Johnson
Big Jack Johnson (July 30, 1940 – March 14, 2011) was an American electric blues musician, one of the “present-day exponents of an edgier, electrified

 

from “Deep Blues”