Johnny Nicholas Too Many Bad Habits (2-LP+ Book)

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Johnny Nicholas: Too Many Bad Habits (2-LP+ Book)

(Hilltop) 26 tracks.
Deluxe Boxed Set double vinyl album includes a 68-page scrapbook filled with photos, four full-color posters, memorabilia and digital download card.

Too Many Bad Habits was recently nominated for a GRAMMY for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package, as well as a Blues Blast Magazine award in the “Historical and Vintage Recording” category and the Alex Steinweiss "Best In Show" award at the 2018 Making Vinyl Packaging Awards.

In the late 1960’s, the college town of Ann Arbor Michigan found itself at the epicenter of a resurgence in Blues music. At the heart of the Ann Arbor Blues revival was guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Johnny Nicholas. Arriving from the East coast for the 1970 Blues Festival, he brought some of the best Blues players out of retirement and brought them together night after night in local clubs and concerts. While he performed with dozens of well-known artists in those venues, among the most frequent and popular with local Blues lovers were the legendary Big Walter Horton, Johnny Shines, and Boogie Woogie Red.

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Interpret: Johnny Nicholas
Album titlle: Too Many Bad Habits (2-LP+ Book)
Genre Blues
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Artikelart LP
Label Hilltop Records
EAN: 0192914251965
weight in Kg 1.2

Nicholas, Johnny - Too Many Bad Habits (2-LP+ Book) LP 1
01	Mandolin Boogie	Johnny Nicholas
02	Looks Can Be Deceivin'	Johnny Nicholas
03	Too Many Bad Habits	Johnny Nicholas
04	Sittin' On Top Of The World	Johnny Nicholas
05	Got The Train	Johnny Nicholas
06	Rock My Blues Away	Johnny Nicholas
07	Blues Walk	Johnny Nicholas
08	Grinnin' In My Face	Johnny Nicholas
09	The New Canned Heat Blues	Johnny Nicholas
10	West Wind	Johnny Nicholas
11	Blues Came Fallin' Down	Johnny Nicholas
12	Careless Love	Johnny Nicholas
13	Gettin' Outta Town	Johnny Nicholas
14	Hellhound On My Train	Johnny Nicholas

Nicholas, Johnny - Too Many Bad Habits (2-LP+ Book) LP 2
01	Move On Down The Line	Johnny Nicholas
02	Pump Jockey Blues	Johnny Nicholas
03	Believe I'll Make A Chage	Johnny Nicholas
04	Prisoner Blues	Johnny Nicholas
05	Apple Groove Rhumba	Johnny Nicholas
06	Looks Can Be Deceiving	Johnny Nicholas
07	That's Alright Mama	Johnny Nicholas
08	Hootie Blues	Johnny Nicholas
09	Money Marbles And Chalk	Johnny Nicholas
10	Lonesome Traveller	Johnny Nicholas
11	Froggy Bottom	Johnny Nicholas
12	Soon Forgotten	Johnny Nicholas

Johnny Nicholas “Johnny Nicholas is one of the best bluesmen ever, black or... more

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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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