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(Valcour Records) 10 tracks, digisleeve Texas hill country-based troubadour Johnny Nicholas is... more

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Johnny Nicholas: Mistaken Identity (CD)

(Valcour Records) 10 tracks, digisleeve

Texas hill country-based troubadour Johnny Nicholas is no stranger to Louisiana. In fact he’s spent a whole lot of time in Acadiana over the last few years and his musical journey has led him across the Texas-Louisiana border many times in the past. In his own words, “This album is a homecoming, bringing me back to the place where I cut my teeth and grew up musically on the prairies and bayou country of Southwest Louisiana in the ‘70s. Link Davis Jr (son of the legendary “Pappa” Link Davis) brought me to Basile and introduced me to Nathan Abshire, who lived behind the Bear Cat Lounge on Highway 190 (chronicled in the aptly titled track, Highway 190).”

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Interpret: Johnny Nicholas
Album titlle: Mistaken Identity (CD)
Genre Country
Preiscode VCD3
Label VALCOUR
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0195269028183
weight in Kg 0.1

Nicholas, Johnny - Mistaken Identity (CD) CD 1
01	She Stole My Mojo	Johnny Nicholas
02	Mule And The Devil	Johnny Nicholas
03	Spark To A Flame	Johnny Nicholas
04	Mistaken Identity	Johnny Nicholas
05	Guadalupe's Prayer	Johnny Nicholas
06	Wanna Be Your Baby	Johnny Nicholas
07	Tight Pants	Johnny Nicholas
08	She Didn't Think Of Me That Way	Johnny Nicholas
09	Highway 190	Johnny Nicholas
10	River Runs Deep	Johnny Nicholas

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"Johnny Nicholas"

Johnny Nicholas

“Johnny Nicholas is one of the best bluesmen ever, black or white.”
~ STEPHEN BRUTON
Make no mistake: Johnny Nicholas knows from the blues. His credentials? Impeccable. Conviction? Immeasurable. And chops? If an instrument’s got strings, keys, or reeds, rest assured he can play the hell out of it. He’s also a consummate songwriter and no slouch of a singer, either, blessed with a warm, toasty growl of a voice that can roll from rumble to croon and back again with seductive ease. In the words of kindred musical spirit Marcia Ball, he “writes instant classics and sings them to break your heart and rock your soul,” while no less of an authority than the late, great B.B. King once observed, “[Johnny] learned from some of the same guys I did and he sings and plays the real down-home blues.”

A lot of those “same guys,” in fact, welcomed a young Johnny Nicholas into their homes, treating him not just as a wide-eyed acolyte of the blues, but as one of their own: “They took me in because they thought a lot more of me than I thought they did, obviously,” he marvels today, “but then later on I realized that I just have this gift, you know? I can reach deep down in those blues and get way down to the bottom like those guys. And they treated me like family.”

But still, there’s something about the term “bluesman” that just doesn’t quite fit Nicholas. To quote the aforementioned Marcia Ball again, he’s far more of an “innovative traditionalist.” Some might call that an oxymoron, but for Nicholas, it’s a point of direction that’s given him a sense of purpose ever since his mentor Robert Lockwood Jr. — the stepson of Robert Johnson — set him straight way back in his salad days. “I got to spend a lot of time with him when I was really young, and, he admonished me early on, saying, ‘Hey, why you wanna be playing Little Walter and Muddy Waters songs? You don’t need to be copying other people’s songs. You’re Johnny Nicholas — play your own stuff, write your own stuff,’” Nicholas recalls with a smile. “And that really stuck with me.”

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