Jack Johnson Discography Mega

Johnson, known as Big Jack Johnson (July 30, 1939 or 1940 – March 14, 2011) was an American electric blues musician, one of the 'present-day exponents of an edgier, electrified version of the raw, uncut Delta blues sound.' He was one of a small number of blues musicians who played the mandolin.He won a W. Handy Award in 2003 for best acoustic blues album. Tracklisting: 1. Inaudible Melodies 2. Middle Man 3. Sexy Plexi 5. Bubble Toes 7. Fortunate Fool 8. Drink The Water.

Jack N. Johnson,^[1] known as Big Jack Johnson (July 30, 1939^[1] or 1940 – March 14, 2011) was an American electric blues musician, one of the 'present-day exponents of an edgier, electrified version of the raw, uncut Delta blues sound.'^[2][3] He was one of a small number of blues musicians who played the mandolin. He won a W. The lost door 2008 torrent. C. Handy Award in 2003 for best acoustic blues album.^[3][4]

Biography[edit]

Johnson was born in Lambert, Mississippi, in 1940, one of 18 children in his family.^[5][6] His father, Ellis Johnson, was a sharecropper, and his family picked cotton, but he was also a professional musician, leading a band at local functions and playing fiddle and mandolin in country and blues styles.^[3][5] Big Jack got his start in music playing with his father. In his teens, he began playing the electric guitar, attracted to the urban sound of B.B. King.^[3][5]

Johnson was nicknamed 'The Oil Man', because of his day job as a truck driver for Shell Oil.^[5] He was the father of 13 children.

His earliest professional playing, apart from his father's band, was with Earnest Roy, Sr., C. Dr fone cracked ios. V. Veal & the Shufflers, and Johnny Dugan & the Esquires.^[7]

In 1962, Johnson, Sam Carr and Frank Frost formed the Jelly Roll Kings and the Nighthawks, in which Johnson played bass, releasing two albums, Hey Boss Man (1962) and My Back Scratcher (1966).^[8][9] Johnson's first recordings as a vocalist are on the 1979 album Rockin' the Juke Joint Down, issued by Earwig Music.^[9][10] With Frost as the bandleader, they performed and recorded together for 15 years.^[10]

Johnson's first solo album, The Oil Man, including the song 'Catfish Blues', was released by Earwig in 1987.^[9][10] He recorded solo and as a member of the Jelly Roll Kings^[6] and Big Jack Johnson and the Oilers (with the poet and musician Dick Lourie).

He wrote and performed 'Jack's Blues' and performed 'Catfish Medley' with Samuel L. Jackson on the soundtrack of the film Black Snake Moan.^[11] His album Daddy, When Is Mama Comin Home? (1990) presents social concerns.^[10]

He subsequently performed and recorded with his band, the Cornlickers, with Dale Wise on drums, Dave Groninger on guitar, Tony Ryder on bass, and Bobby Gentilo on guitar. They recorded the albums Katrina (2009) and Big Jack's Way (2012).

Johnson died from an undisclosed illness on March 14, 2011.^[9] According to family members, he had struggled with health problems in his final years, worsening to the point that there were erroneous reports of his death in the days leading up to it.^[9]

Johnson was posthumously honored with a plaque on the Clarksdale Walk of Fame in August 2011.^[12] He also has a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail in Clarksdale.^[13]

Partial discography[edit]

• The Oil Man (1987)
• Rooster Blues (1987)
• Daddy, When Is Mama Comin' Home (1991)
• We Got to Stop This Killin' (1996)
• Live in Chicago (1997)
• All the Way Back* (1998)
• Live in Chicago* (1998)
• Roots Stew* (2000)
• The Memphis Barbecue Sessions (2002)
• Black Snake Moan (2007)
• Juke Joint Saturday Night Live (2008)
• Katrina (2009)
• Big Jack's Way (2010)^[14]

Filmography[edit]

• The Jewish Cowboys (2003) (TV)
• Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads (1992)

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abEagle, Bob; LeBlanc, Eric S. (2013). Blues - A Regional Experience. Santa Barbara: Praeger Publishers. p. 203. ISBN978-0313344237.
2. ^Du Noyer, Paul (2003). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music (1st ed.). Fulham, London: Flame Tree Publishing. p. 160. ISBN1-904041-96-5.
3. ^ ^abcdRussell, Tony (June 1, 2011). 'Blues, Big Jack Johnson obituary, One of the last of the rural deep south juke-joint bluesmen'. theguardian.com. The Guardian. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
4. ^'2003 W.C. Handy Blues Awards Winners'. billboard.com. Billboard. May 23, 2003. Retrieved October 11, 2015. Acoustic Blues Album of the Year: Big Jack Johnson, 'Memphis Bar-B-Que Sessions'
5. ^ ^abcdHowell, Dave (January 12, 1996). 'Big Jack Johnson's Blues Are Aimed at the Heart'. The Morning Call. Allentown, Pennsylvania. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
6. ^ ^ab'Big Jack Johnson Bio'(PDF). JW Entertainment at Hudson River Park web site. Retrieved November 5, 2007.^{[dead link]}
7. ^'Big Jack Johnson - Clarksdale'. bluestrail.org. The Mississippi Blues Foundation. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
8. ^Russell, Tony (June 1, 2011). 'Big Jack Johnson Obituary'. The Guardian. London. Retrieved October 22, 2011.
9. ^ ^abcde'Mississippi bluesman Big Jack Johnson dies'. Communityvoices.sites.post-gazette.com. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
10. ^ ^abcdDahl, Bill. 'Big Jack Johnson Biography & History'. AllMusic. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
11. ^'Soundtracks for Black Snake Moan'. at the Internet Movie Database. Retrieved November 5, 2007.
12. ^'Two historic marker dedications kick off Sunflower Blues Fest activities August 12'. Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival. July 28, 2011.
13. ^'Big Jack Johnson'. Mississippi Blues Trail.
14. ^'Big Jack Johnson Album Discography'. AllMusic. Retrieved October 12, 2015.

External links[edit]

• Big Jack Johnson on IMDb

On his 2013 album From Here to Now to You, the surfing soft rock superstar Jack Johnson continues the subtle shift in his sound that began on his previous album, To the Sea. Like he did there, Johnson again spices up the sweet and sleepy acoustic ballads that are his claim to fortune and fame with some songs that have a little more bubbly, uptempo pop in their DNA. He and his able band put some surprising bounce in lighthearted rockers like 'Shot Reverse Shot' and 'Washing Dishes'; give his tale of playing in punk bands as a teen, 'Tape Deck,' a nice shaggy loping feel; and get almost funky on the jam band-friendly 'Radiate.' These tracks give the album a few nice jolts of energy, though jolt may be the wrong word.

Maybe more like gentle nudges. Certainly not drastic enough to detract from the reliably mellow mood Johnson creates on the rest of the album as his quiet and peaceful tunes work like a shot of musical melatonin. Songs like the sweetly romantic 'I Got You,' the gently questioning 'Don't Believe a Thing I Say,' and the truly lovely ballad 'Change' are like melodic cocktails guaranteed to give you a light and breezy buzz with no hangover the next day. When he gets a little melancholy, which he does a couple times, he does it in such a pleasant way that the slightly dark sentiments float by like stray clouds. Only one song lets down the side, the treacly and slightly odd ode to parenthood 'You Remind Me of You,' which equates children with clones and sounds way too silly compared to the rest of the record. This one stumble aside, From Here to Now to You is another impressive record from Johnson. The way he mixes sounds, styles, and moods on the album is, like it was on To the Sea, a nice step in the right direction; the songs are typically strong; and the whole thing goes down as easily as ice-cold soda pop on a hot summer day.© Tim Sendra /TiVo.

Jack Johnson quietly turned into a star over the course of the 2000s, so it’s only fitting that he inaugurates the second decade of his recording career with To the Sea, an album that feels like the work of a soft rock superstar. Of course, that’s what Johnson is, but he’s avoided sounding that way by performing soft-shuffle acoustic numbers, camouflaging his pop move as a soundtrack to Curious George, then getting mellowly introspective on 2008’s Sleep Through the Static.

To the Sea blows away the drowsy cobwebs from Sleep, pushing the acoustic guitar to the background and letting his band groove politely, usually in an amiable, unhurried gait that never breaks a sweat even when the musicians goose the tempo a bit. Call it the signature of a surfer so bleached by the sun that he rushes nothing, but To the Sea substitutes the sunset strum-alongs of his earliest records for a sleek daytime sheen that might glimmer too brightly for hippies but it makes for a better overall pop record, the kind of album that suits Jack Johnson’s stature as surfer turned AAA crooner.© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo. Whether you love Jack Johnson, or find his amiable island charm a little too mild for your post-modern comfort, props must be given for his confidently re-creating a niche for acoustic singer/songwriter fare that had its heyday in the '70s. Not since then has a young artist seemed so comfortable projecting a sunny, angst-free persona, in service of a folk-derived, heart-centered musical agenda.

His legions of multi-generational fans suggest that the genre, which thrives on gentle charisma, prolific live appearances, and native comfort in concert settings both intimate and grand, was probably due for a revival. This live album (and accompanying DVD) captures Johnson performing for an adoring mob in his home state of Hawaii, as well as in San Francisco, Paris, Barcelona, New Hampshire, and other locales.

Although the renditions here are mostly identical to the versions on his solo albums and numerous soundtracks, he gently breathes new life into them by retooling some of his best-loved numbers into crowd-pleasing medleys. This works to good effect on the album opener 'Belle/Banana Pancakes,' which pairs a featherweight bossa nova with a bluesy shuffle about domestic bliss, accompanied by roars of approval and recognition from a Parisian audience. Another skilled segue matches Johnson's lightly funky 'Bubble Toes' with Charles Wright's '70s soul hit 'Express Yourself' - most likely the only shared reference in the respective repertoires of Jack Johnson and N.W.A - and displays the singing surfer's earthy ease with an R&B groove. Considering the abundance of live Johnson recordings and the existence of the concurrent concert film, does it makes sense to buy this album? Fans and completists will want to own it anyway, but the additional pull for even casual listeners is that all proceeds from the CD's sales will benefit the Kokua Hawaii Foundation and the Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation.© Paula Carino /TiVo.

Singer/songwriter Jack Johnson writes songs that just feel good, sticking to an equation that combines his warm, relaxed voice with an acoustic guitar. That cozy formula made him a favorite among American college crowds, so it's no surprise that Johnson sticks with what he does best for his third album, In Between Dreams. Producer Mario Caldato, Jr. Is back again, touching up Johnson's summery backdrop for another playful set of songs.

The genre-blending charm and sweetness that fueled Brushfire Fairytales and On and On hasn't changed that much, but does it really have to? Johnson, alongside drummer Adam Topol and bassist Merlo Podlewski, makes safe records. While there isn't anything wrong with that, taking a few more risks sonically and lyrically wouldn't work against him. Tender moments such as 'If I Could' and 'No Other Way' showcase a more reserved side on In Between Dreams. Other highlights include the lullaby-like 'Breakdown' and the bossa nova rhythms of 'Do You Remember.' Whether he's singing about being in love - which he does quite well on 'Better Together' and 'Banana Pancakes' - or reflecting on its hardships, Johnson's laid-back approach is his biggest strength.

In Between Dreams is a bit brighter and more upbeat, but his song remains the same. MacKenzie Wilson.