Johnny Nicholas Rockin' My Blues To Sleep (CD)
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Johnny Nicholas: Rockin' My Blues To Sleep (CD)
An album dedicated to his old friend Doug Sahm with a collection of lesser known, but many obscure and fascinating R&B tracks from the heyday of music. Recorded in 2000, what he announced came out excellently: 'Texas Louisiana Blues & Dance Hall Favorites'. JOHNNY NICHOLAS - gtr,voc, RILEY OSBORNE - kbds, JACK BARBER - bass, ERNIE DURAWA - drums, plus horns. Special guests: MARCIA BALL - pno,voc, FLOYD DOMINO - pno, STEPHEN BRUTON - gtr, etc.
Article properties:Johnny Nicholas: Rockin' My Blues To Sleep (CD)
Interpret: Johnny Nicholas
Album titlle: Rockin' My Blues To Sleep (CD)
Label TOPCAT
Genre Blues
Artikelart CD
- Preiscode Y10
EAN: 0014172010125
- weight in Kg 0.1
Nicholas, Johnny - Rockin' My Blues To Sleep (CD) CD 1 | ||||
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01 | Rockin' My Blues To Sleep | Johnny Nicholas | ||
02 | Rain Down Tears | Johnny Nicholas | ||
03 | The Last Meal | Johnny Nicholas | ||
04 | I'm A Fool To Care | Johnny Nicholas | ||
05 | Where You At | Johnny Nicholas | ||
06 | Reap What You Sow | Johnny Nicholas | ||
07 | Woke Up Screamin' | Johnny Nicholas | ||
08 | Mamma, Talk To Your Daughter | Johnny Nicholas | ||
09 | In The Doorway Cryin' | Johnny Nicholas | ||
10 | The Hustle Is On | Johnny Nicholas | ||
11 | Things I Used To Do | Johnny Nicholas | ||
12 | Before I Grow Too Old | Johnny Nicholas | ||
13 | Boogie Back To Texas | 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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