Showing posts with label Big Jack Johnson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Big Jack Johnson. Show all posts

July 10, 2021

Big Jack Johnson 15th Piazza Blues Festival (2003)


Found hidden in my pile here !
Big Jack was a true Bluesman and played with the 2 old timers from
 the King Biscuit  Radio show!

He received his first big break in 1962 when he sat in with the duo of Frank Frost, 
who was playing both guitar and harmonica, and drummer Sam Carr at Clarksdale’s Savoy Theater. Both men were considerably older Carr  was born in 1926, Frost in 1936  and had been playing together for a number of years, initially in St. Louis.
Enjoy the Oil Man !!

Track List:

01-Track 01.mp3
02-I Got Love.mp3
03-Every Day I Have The Blues.mp3
04-Maggie Lee.mp3
05-Track 05.mp3
06-Hummingbird.mp3
07-Two Trains.mp3
08-Intrumental.mp3
09-Big Boss Man.mp3
10-You Got Me Wrong.mp3
11-For Your Love.mp3
12-Bluebird.mp3

NOTE
192 KBS
excellent soundboard recording

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August 20, 2014

Big Jack Johnson - Live Norwich Chenango Blues Fest 1996

Big Jack Johnson live on 1996 presented by The Rippin' Frog.


One commentator noted that Johnson, along with R. L. Burnside, Paul "Wine" Jones,
Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes and James "Super Chikan" Johnson, were "present-day exponents of an edgier, electrified version  of the raw, uncut Delta blues sound.
In 1962, Johnson joined with Sam Carr and Frank Frost to form The Jelly Roll Kings and The Nighthawks. Johnson's first recordings as a vocalist appeared on the 1979 album Rockin' the Juke Joint Down, on Earwig Music. With Frost as the bandleader, they performed and recorded together for 15 years.
He has recorded both solo and as a member of the blues groups the Jelly Roll Kings and Big Jack Johnson and the Oilers (with poet/musician Dick Lourie). Johnson's album for Earwig, The Oil Man (1987), includes "Catfish Blues."
He performed and wrote "Jack's Blues" and performed "Catfish Medley" with Samuel L. Jackson on the Black Snake Moan film soundtrack. Daddy, When Is Mama Comin Home? (1990) presents social concerns. His last recordings were with the Corn Lickers and delivered some of his best ever work
Johnson died from an undisclosed illness on March 14, 2011.According to family members, he had struggled with health issues in his final years, worsening to the point that there were erroneous reports of his death several times in the weeks prior to his death.
Big Jack was a Blues force  
R.I.P. and welcome to the big band in the sky!

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