Jimmy Johnson (James Earl Thompson): Johnson's Whacks on CD
Johnson's Whacks
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
- Label:
- Delmark
- Year of recording ca.:
- 1979
- Item number:
- 6122836
- UPC/EAN:
- 0038153064426
- Release date:
- 10.6.1993
Product Information
When Jimmy Johnson's first album, Johnson's Whacks hit the streets at the end of the seventies, he was heralded as being part of a new blues generation that could actually write fully-realized, mature SONGS (as opposed to borrowing or stealing jukebox standards). Delmark even printed a lyric sheet for that LP, a first in blues cover art!
Delmark recently reissued North / South, a 1982 gem, for the CD age, and it's amazing how little this has dated. The bass-driven funk rhythms are definitely products of their time--any current bar band would have thumb popped these songs to excess, but Larry Exum's bass work still sounds tasteful this close to the new millennium...And each time you think you know where one of these songs is going, Johnson throws in a chordal progression that sounds appropriate.
James Porter, New City
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 The Twelve Bar Blues
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2 Ashes In My Ashtray
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3 I Stand Alone
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4 Slamming Doors
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5 Take Five
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6 Strange How I Miss You (When I Haven't Even Lost You Yet)
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7 Poor Boy's Dream
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8 I Need Some Easy Money
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9 Driving Nails In My Coffin
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10 Jockey Sports
