Johnny Burgin CD: Live (CD) - Bear Family Records

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(Delmark) 14 tracks This live album features twelve brand new originals and two covers by... more

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Johnny Burgin: Live (CD)

(Delmark) 14 tracks
This live album features twelve brand new originals and two covers by artists who don't play together regularly for a full house full of enthusiastic fans. The band only had one night to catch it - making this recording a crazy but exciting high wire act!

An absolute highlight is the driving blues harp of blues legend Charlie Musselwhite on California Blues. You could feel a jolt of v going through the crowd as Portland, Oregon-based Rae Gordon entered the stage. The end result is a raw, fresh and original all-star blues played with live energy. Recorded on 1.5.19 at Redwood Cafe, Cotati, CA.

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Interpret: Johnny Burgin
Album titlle: Live (CD)
Label DELMARK
Genre Blues
Price code VCD3
Artikelart CD
Year of publication 2019
EAN: 0038153085827
weight in Kg 0.1

Burgin, Rockin' Johnny - Live (CD) CD 1
01	You Got To Make A Change	Johnny Burgin
02	Can't Make It Blues	Johnny Burgin
03	She Gave Me The Slip	Johnny Burgin
04	You're My Trinket	Johnny Burgin
05	The Leading Brand	Johnny Burgin
06	I Got To Find Me A Woman	Johnny Burgin
07	Late Night Date Night	Johnny Burgin
08	You Took The Bait	Johnny Burgin
09	Daddy's Got The Personal Touch	Johnny Burgin
10	Louisiana Walk	Johnny Burgin
11	Blues Falling	Johnny Burgin
12	California Blues	Johnny Burgin
13	When The Bluesman Comes To Town	Johnny Burgin
14	Jody's Jazz	Johnny Burgin

Rockin' Johnny In mid-1990s Chicago, musical worlds burgeoned, collided and cohered. Young... more

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"Johnny Burgin"

Rockin' Johnny

In mid-1990s Chicago, musical worlds burgeoned, collided and cohered. Young jazz players crafted their own take on different traditions. Rockers turned toward country. A few became rock stars. Through it all, blues singer/ guitarist Rockin' Johnny Burgin set his own pace. Back then, and today, a slew of disciples of this city's 12-bar traditions turned their tributes into overwrought clichés. Rockin' Johnny stood apart from all of that. He absorbed the right lesson from West and South Side mentors.

That was: economy should be a blues musician's ally. Pack a world into a few sharp notes and let the spaces sing for themselves. At the same time, Johnny stayed hungry enough to book his own groups throughout large cities and small towns, and tells that story in the song Shoe Leather And Tire Rubber. Meanwhile, he sharpened his skills when he served as a sideman for such legends as Tail Dragger, Jimmy Burns, Sam Lay, Pinetop Perkins, Billy Boy Arnold, Little Arthur Duncan and Jimmy Lee Robinson. Some outside gigs added fuel for his originality—like a memorable night at Beat Kitchen working alongside perverse R&B singer Andre Williams.

But when that decade ended, Johnny walked away from music. Johnny's early and, ultimately, brief time away from the stage echoed Wes Montgomery's decision in the early 1950s to hold factory jobs: the jazz guitarist had a a family to support, and remarked, "What I wanted to do didn't matter as much as what I had to do." A couple years ago, Johnny got back into performing and released NOW'S THE TIME in 2010.

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