Track Listings (10) - Disc #1| All Artists: Johnny Jones Title: Can I Get an Amen Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Blue Label Original Release Date: 1/1/2007 Re-Release Date: 4/24/2007 Genres: Blues, Pop Style: Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 693723958620 |
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Legendary guitar player Johnny Jones comes from the same 50s Chicago scene that produced many a great blues musician over the years. Originally from Eads, Tennessee, Johnny became enthralled with the guitar as a teenage... more » |
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Album Description Legendary guitar player Johnny Jones comes from the same 50s Chicago scene that produced many a great blues musician over the years. Originally from Eads, Tennessee, Johnny became enthralled with the guitar as a teenager after witnessing a Joe Hill Louis performance and it was in Chicago where he played some of his earliest gigs with Junior Wells and Freddie King. Later moving to Memphis and working with many of the great blues names of the times, Johnny eventually formed the recording group The King Casuals, of which featured an up and coming young guitarist by the name of Jimi Hendrix. The impressionable young Jimi was enthralled with Johnny's biting and dirty guitar licks and picked up much from him. Following lengthy stints with Earl Gains and Bobby `Blue' Bland and discouraged by the hard life and little financial rewards of so many of the day's bluesmen, Johnny semi retired from the biz, only playing local shows in the still healthy Nashville area. Following the massive resurgence in traditional blues in the 90s, Johnny found himself recording for the Dutch label Black Magic, releasing his first real album, I Was Raised On The Blues. It is from the ensuing 1998 tour of Europe that Can I Get An Amen was recorded. A stellar and well recorded live performance with his band from The Muhle Hunziken in Bern, Switzerland, Can I Get An Amen captures an evening with the phenomenal blues guitar of the one and only Johnny Jones. Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsLots of sweet elecrric blues guitar ! terry sknary | hollywood | 08/23/2008 (5 out of 5 stars) "this guy is a legend and this is a electric blues guitar lovers disc. I have since bought all his others..nice stuff.. jimi hendrix liked his style so much he joined his band,,nuff said!!" Biting blues guitar like only Johnny Jones can Denis | NJ, USA | 12/15/2009 (5 out of 5 stars) ""Can I Get an Amen" is a live performance, and a superb one at that. Many people unfortunately don't know of Johnny Jones, yet he doesn't deserve to be missed by any blues lover! Johnny renders completely original, exuberant covers to dusty, tired ole blues standards and makes you want to hang on to every note. He has a beautiful singing voice and a constantly wry smile on his face, always playful and wicked with his lyrics and the style of singing. Whether he would dish out striking verses matter-of-factly or wax a love ballad, it's all soul and all in his very own inimitable style.
This live performance is especially rousing. I always wonder how the man, who is probably over 70 now and has been on the road for most of his life, can still be so excited about performing and does it with so much energy and heart! The recording quality is excellent, and you can hear Johnny's biting guitar solos in full glory. His guitar tone is absolutely original and immediately recognizable from the crowd of blues slingers. He weaves very interesting, thoughtful melodies in his solos. Without shredding needlessly on guitar or getting too much into rock, he makes his solos heard, loud and clear, where every note bites your ear, and every note matters. His solos are not so much "phrase" by "phrase" as they are "word" by "word" - note by note without tricks, chorus, or smears. As organic as it gets. "Can I Get an Amen" is a great find, and I am happy to have been given this as a gift. I already own Johnny's "Blues In the House", which is out of print but a super blues record with plenty of fun, sly songs there." |
