| 词条 | Jimmy Johnson (blues guitarist) |
| 释义 |
James Earl Thompson[1] (born November 25, 1928), known professionally as Jimmy Johnson, is an American blues guitarist and singer. BiographyJohnson was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Several of his brothers had careers in music, among them the soul musician Syl Johnson and the bassist Mack Thompson, who played with Magic Sam. In his younger years he played piano and sang in gospel groups. He and his family moved to Chicago in 1950, where he worked as a welder and played guitar in his spare time. He began playing professionally with Slim Willis in 1959, changing his last name to Johnson, as did his brother Syl. As a guitarist he was influenced by Buddy Guy and Otis Rush. He played with Freddy King, Albert King, Magic Sam, Otis Rush, and Eddy Clearwater, among others.[2] In the 1960s he played music in more of an R&B style, working with Otis Clay, Denise LaSalle, and Garland Green. He had his own group from the early 1960s, and by the mid-1960s he had released his first single. By 1974, Johnson had returned to playing blues, working with Jimmy Dawkins and touring Japan with Otis Rush in 1975.[3] His first solo albums appeared on MCM Blues Records in 1978 and Delmark Records in 1979, when he was fifty years old. Reviewing the 1979 Johnson's Whacks, Robert Christgau wrote in Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981): "Syl's cousin performed better on Alligator's Living Chicago Blues Volume I, but only marginally, and he compensates by showing unexpected chops as a writer. Whether hoping to make the cover of Living Blues magazine or complaining that women aren't loyal any more, he comes across as a bold-faced contemporary. But his basic wail starts to sound thin after a while, his band is only solid, and his guitar can't carry the extra load."[4] In November 1980, Johnson was awarded at the first annual Blues Music Awards, held in Memphis. His career continued to pick up until December 2, 1988, when his touring van crashed in Indiana, killing his band's keyboardist, St. James Bryant, and bassist, Larry Exum.[3] Johnson was injured and took an extended break from the music industry. He returned to record for Verve Records in 1994. In 2002, he recorded with his brother Syl. He remained active and toured Europe in 2009, performing in the United Kingdom and at the Copenhagen Blues Festival in Denmark. He collaborated in 2014 on Beyond Any Form, an album of Persian traditional music.[5] Discography
NoteThe subject of this article has sometimes been confused with another blues musician called Jimmy Johnson, who was born James Franklin Johnson in Fordyce, Arkansas, on February 23, 1926, and died in Los Angeles on November 25, 2000. James Franklin Johnson wrote the song "Don't Answer the Door", which was recorded by B. B. King.[6] External links
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://repertoire.bmi.com/writer.asp?page=1&blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&fromrow=1&torow=25&affiliation=BMI&cae=74080293&keyID=342660&keyname=THOMPSON%20JAMES%20EARL&querytype=WriterID |title=Songwriter/Composer: Thompson James Earl |work=BMI Repertoire |publisher=Repertoire.BMI.com |accessdate=2011-04-08 }}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Johnson, Jimmy}}2. ^Dahl, Bill. [{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p91052/biography|pure_url=yes}} Jimmy Johnson: Biography]. Allmusic.com. 3. ^1 {{cite book| first= Tony| last= Russell| year= 1997| title= The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray| edition= | publisher=Carlton Books| location= Dubai| pages= 125| isbn= 1-85868-255-X}} 4. ^{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: J|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=J&bk=70|accessdate=February 27, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}} 5. ^{{cite news|url=http://chnpress.ir/NSite/FullStory/News/?Id=1649&Serv=0&SGr=0|work=Cultural Heritage News Agency|title="Neither Angel Nor Devil Am I" Released|date=August 12, 2014|accessdate=October 19, 2014|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712212826/http://chnpress.ir/NSite/FullStory/News/?Id=1649&Serv=0&SGr=0|archivedate=July 12, 2015|df=}} 6. ^{{cite book| first1= Bob| last1= Eagle| first2= Eric S.| last2= LeBlanc| year= 2013| title= Blues: A Regional Experience| publisher= Praeger | location= Santa Barbara, California| pages=299 | isbn= 978-0313344237}} 13 : 1928 births|Living people|People from Holly Springs, Mississippi|American blues guitarists|American male guitarists|American blues singers|American male singers|Blues musicians from Mississippi|Guitarists from Mississippi|Class Records artists|Delmark Records artists|20th-century American guitarists|20th-century male musicians |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。