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(2015/JSP) 53 tracks. Recordings from the 1950s with Chicago blues pianist Johnny Jones. more

Johnny Jones: Doin' The Best I Can (2-CD)

(2015/JSP) 53 tracks.
Recordings from the 1950s with Chicago blues pianist Johnny Jones.

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  • Interpret: Johnny Jones

  • Album titlle: Doin' The Best I Can (2-CD)

  • Genre Blues

  • Label JSP Records

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 0788065424527

  • weight in Kg 0.2
Jones, Johnny - Doin' The Best I Can (2-CD) CD 1
01 Sweet little woman Johnny "Little" Jones
02 I may be wrong Johnny "Little" Jones
03 Wait baby Johnny "Little" Jones
04 Hoy, hoy Johnny "Little" Jones
05 Chicago blues Johnny "Little" Jones
06 Doin' the best I can Johnny "Little" Jones
07 Come on if you're coming Tampa Red
08 Please try to see it my way Tampa Red
09 One Sunday morning Big Maceo
10 Just tell me baby Big Maceo
11 Do you remember Big Maceo
12 Big city blues Big Maceo
13 It's too late now Tampa Red
14 I'll find my way Tampa Red
15 Midnight boogie Tampa Red
16 I miss my lovin' blues Tampa Red
17 Since my baby's been gone Tampa Red
18 She's a cool operator Tampa Red
19 Look-a-there, look-a-there Tampa Red
20 True love Tampa Red
21 All mixed up over you Tampa Red
22 So much trouble Tampa Red
23 Ti-ri-lee Joe Turner (Piano) (1907-1990)
24 Oke-she-moke-she-pop Joe Turner (Piano) (1907-1990)
25 T V Mama Joe Turner (Piano) (1907-1990)
Jones, Johnny - Doin' The Best I Can (2-CD) CD 2
01 Baby what's wrong Elmore James
02 I believe Elmore James
03 Sinful woman Elmore James
04 I held my baby last night Elmore James
05 Round house boogie JT Brown
06 Kickin' the blues around JT Brown
07 Saxony boogie JT Brown
08 Dumb woman blues JT Brown
09 Early in the morning Elmore James
10 Hawaiian boogie Elmore James
11 Can't stop lovin' Elmore James
12 Make a little love Elmore James
13 Make my dreams come true Elmore James
14 Strange kinda feelin' Elmore James
15 Dark and dreary Elmore James
16 Sho' nuff I do Elmore James
17 1839 blues Elmore James
18 Cut that out Junior Wells
19 Ways like an angel Junior Wells
20 Hoodoo man Junior Wells
21 Tomorrow night Junior Wells
22 Eagle rock Junior Wells
23 Junior's wail Junior Wells
24 Eagle twelve year old boy Elmore James
25 Coming home Elmore James
26 It hurts me too Elmore James
27 Knocking at your door Elmore James
28 Elmore's contribution to jazz Elmore James
Johnny Jones & The Beat Boys Faithful viewers of ‘The!!!!Beat,’ Nashville... more
"Johnny Jones"

Johnny Jones & The Beat Boys

Faithful viewers of ‘The!!!!Beat,’ Nashville deejay Bill ‘Hoss’ Allen’s groundbreaking syndicated 1966 R&B TV program, got an earful of Johnny Jones’ incisive guitar each week as leader of the show’s house band, The Beat Boys. Jones was Nashville’s top electric blues axeman for decades. 

Born August 17, 1936 in Eads, Tennessee, Jones lived with his father in Memphis after his parents separated before venturing to Chicago in 1955 to stay with his mother. "That’s when I really started got serious about the guitar," said the late Jones. "I had just been riding around banging on it. But I got to Chicago, man, and I got to hanging around those clubs, and I go, ‘Wow! This is what I want to do right here!’" He began playing professionally the next year.

Johnny was chosen by prolific Nashville producer Ted Jarrett to play behind singer Gene Allison with saxist Jimmy Beck’s combo. Jarrett gave Jones his first studio jobs, notably on Beck’s 1959 hit Pipe Dreams and Larry Birdsong’s Every Night Of The Week, both on the Champion label. Before long, Jones was gigging six nights a week at the city’s New Era Club with the Imperials. "I stabilized the blues guitar in Nashville," he said. Jones’ two-part 1963 instrumental Really with the Imperial 7 came out on ‘Hoss’ Allen’s Hermitage label.

Jones was a key early influence on the musical development of Jimi Hendrix, based in Nashville in the early ‘60s. "I taught Jimi," said Jones. "He had everything else that he needed, but he needed a direction. I gave him a direction." When Hendrix split town, Jones took over Jimi’s King Casuals, anchored by bassist Billy Cox; that was basically the band he brought to ‘The!!!!Beat.’ The luxurious after-hours instrumental Finger Lickin’ , with Allen babbling in the background, came out on the Hollywood logo in 1967, Jones’ crew still listed as the Beat Boys.

Emcee Gorgeous George set Johnny and the King Casuals up with promoter Henry Wynne in Atlanta, leading to a contract with William Bell’s Peachtree label. Bell placed three late ‘60s Jones 45s with Brunswick: a funky Soul Poppin’, the Hendrix tribute Purple Haze, and an Albert King-influenced Chip Off The Old Block. Peachtree released two more on him, Mighty Low and Do Unto Others, during the early ‘70s, but an extended hiatus preceded Jones hiring on with Bobby Bland’s orchestra in 1976 for three years. "One of the best moves I ever made," he said.

When Johnny came off the road in ‘79, disco was wiping out Nashville’s blues scene, so he ran a soul food restaurant. "I got in that thing and stayed 14 years!" he said. Producer Fred James tracked him down and in 1997 brought several Nashville blues greats including Jones to Utrecht for Blues Estafette, leading to a deal with Black Magic and Jones’ debut CD. More discs followed, notably 2000's ‘In The House,’ a fine live set on Detlev Hoegen’s Crosscut label co-starring veteran Nashville singer Charles Walker (the two sometimes toured as a unit). Jones died October 14, 2009 in Nashville at 73, his body discovered by exterminators inside his apartment.

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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Tracklist
Jones, Johnny - Doin' The Best I Can (2-CD) CD 1
01 Sweet little woman
02 I may be wrong
03 Wait baby
04 Hoy, hoy
05 Chicago blues
06 Doin' the best I can
07 Come on if you're coming
08 Please try to see it my way
09 One Sunday morning
10 Just tell me baby
11 Do you remember
12 Big city blues
13 It's too late now
14 I'll find my way
15 Midnight boogie
16 I miss my lovin' blues
17 Since my baby's been gone
18 She's a cool operator
19 Look-a-there, look-a-there
20 True love
21 All mixed up over you
22 So much trouble
23 Ti-ri-lee
24 Oke-she-moke-she-pop
25 T V Mama
Jones, Johnny - Doin' The Best I Can (2-CD) CD 2
01 Baby what's wrong
02 I believe
03 Sinful woman
04 I held my baby last night
05 Round house boogie
06 Kickin' the blues around
07 Saxony boogie
08 Dumb woman blues
09 Early in the morning
10 Hawaiian boogie
11 Can't stop lovin'
12 Make a little love
13 Make my dreams come true
14 Strange kinda feelin'
15 Dark and dreary
16 Sho' nuff I do
17 1839 blues
18 Cut that out
19 Ways like an angel
20 Hoodoo man
21 Tomorrow night
22 Eagle rock
23 Junior's wail
24 Eagle twelve year old boy
25 Coming home
26 It hurts me too
27 Knocking at your door
28 Elmore's contribution to jazz