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(2010/no label) 13 tracks. Johnny Burgin - gtr/voc, Rick Kreher - gtr, Rob Lorenz - drums, John... more

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Rockin' Johnny: Now's The Time

(2010/no label) 13 tracks.
Johnny Burgin - gtr/voc, Rick Kreher - gtr, Rob Lorenz - drums, John Sefner - bass, Greg Sefner - pno/org.
Track 13: Kenny Smith - drums, Sho Komiya - bass.

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Interpret: Rockin' Johnny
Album titlle: Now's The Time
Genre Blues
Label ROCKIN' JOHNNY BAND
Artikelart CD
Preiscode Y10
EAN: 0684900000928
weight in Kg 0.1

Burgin, Rockin' Johnny - Now's The Time CD 1
01	Pink Champagne	Rockin' Johnny
02	Now's The Time	Rockin' Johnny
03	Guess I'll Walk Alone	Rockin' Johnny
04	Hot Sauce	Rockin' Johnny
05	War Boy	Rockin' Johnny
06	I'm Gonna Build Me A Playhouse	Rockin' Johnny
07	Pico	Rockin' Johnny
08	Hippie Dance	Rockin' Johnny
09	Chicago Woman	Rockin' Johnny
10	A Man And The Blues	Rockin' Johnny
11	Little Red Rooster	Rockin' Johnny
12	The Chaser	Rockin' Johnny
13	Sweet Love	Rockin' Johnny

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

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"Rockin' Johnny"

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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