JOHNNY GUITAR WATSON Blues Soul Original CHESS Lp 1490
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May 31, 2011
Sold Date
May 24, 2011
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Description
THE BLUES SOUL OF JOHNNY GUITAR WATSON
By Johnny Watson -
Artist: Johnny Watson
Title: "The Blues Soul of Johnny Guitar Watson"
Year: 1964
Format: LP
Label: CHESS 1490
Notes: Stereo CONDITION: Record is in very good visual condition, with at most some light scuffing - should play just fine; jacket has foxing on rear at the slick edges, otherwise very good condition with little real ring-wear and no owner marks, etc.
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This 1964 album (same as I Cried for You) displays an entirely different facet of the multitalented R&B star's musical personality. Here he's an accomplished jazz pianist in a trio setting, giving old standards like "Witchcraft" and "Misty" his own vocal twist. Lowell Fulson's "Reconsider Baby" is the only blues number on the LP.Tracks
Title
Composer
Time
1 Witchcraft Coleman, Leigh
2 I Cried for You
3 I'll Remember April DePaul, Johnston, Raye
4 Polka Dots and Moonbeams Burke, VanHeusen
5 Exactly Like You
6 When Did You Leave Heaven
7 Reconsider Baby Fulson
8 Misty
Johnny "Guitar" Watson (February 3, 1935 – May 17, 1996) was an American blues and funk guitarist and singer.
Watson's ferocious "Space Guitar" of 1954 pioneered guitar feedback and reverb. Watson would later influence a subsequent generation of guitarists. His song "Gangster of Love" was first released on Keen Records in 1957. It did not appear in the charts at the time, but later became a hit in 1978 and identified as Watson's "most famous song".
He toured and recorded with his friend Larry Williams, as well as Little Richard, Don & Dewey, The Olympics, Johnny Otis and, in the mid-1970s with David Axelrod. He also played with Sam Cooke, Herb Alpert and George Duke. But as the popularity of blues declined and the era of soul music ascended in the 1960s, Watson, in his inimitable style, transformed himself from the southern blues singer with pompadour into the urban soul singer with pimp hat. He went all out – the gold teeth, broad-brimmed hats, fly suits, designer sunglasses, and ostentatious jewellery made him one of the most colorful figures in the West Coast funk circle.
He modified his music accordingly. His LPs Ain't That a Bitch (from which the successful singles "Superman Lover" and "I Need It" were taken) and Real Mother For Ya were landmark recordings of 1970s funk. "Telephone Bill" (on 1980's Love Jones) featured complex, rapid-fire lyrics that foreshadowed rap music. His subsequent LPs employed and popularized the modern "computer sound". In 1978, Watson's backup band (as the "Watsonian Institute") recorded Master Funk, an album with a stronger jazz influence.
In his exhaustively researched book Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke (2005), Peter Guralnick claims that Watson was an actual pimp, as well as a performer. Watson himself, however, reportedly felt "ambivalent" about prostituting women, even though it "paid better" than music.
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