Artist: Johnny Tucker - Title: Seven Day Blues
Label: Highjohn Records - Release Dote: 2-16-2018
Genre: Blues: West Coast Blues
Johnny Tucker is the tenth child born of nineteen siblings to a seasonal sharecropper and his wife. His interest in music began when he would sit on the porch and listen to his father play the guitar for his mother. Johnny started playing drums and was first influenced by Lowell Fulson’s record Black Knight . He learned the music by listening and playing along with the songs. He listened to James Brown records and learned to play his tunes too. Johnny first came to Los Angeles in 1964, where he hooked up with Phillip Walker as a featured singer doing a James Brown act singing top ten hits of the times. Later, he became a drummer with Walker’s band and began traveling the world for the next 34 years.
Along the way, he played with other great artists such as Floyd Dixon, Robert Cray, Johnny Otis, The Five Royals, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Lowell Fulson and Johnny Copeland. Johnny has traveled and performed extensively in the U.S., Canada, Japan and Europe. In 1967 Johnny met James “Broadway” Thomas while they were playing with the Johnny Otis band. In 1997 these two teamed up and put out an album titled Stranded .
Tucker returns with his second album on HighJohn Records, Seven Day Blues , the first being the 2006 release, Why You Lookin’ At Me? Label chief Bob Auerbach teamed up the legendary blues showman with Big Jon Atkinson and his crew at Big Tone Studios in Hayward, CA for a series of sessions in the summer of 2017. The resulting collection of 15 new tracks is a treasure trove of classic R&B and Chicago-style blues, with a neo-retro Sun Studio tube amp feel that gives his “big as all outdoors” vocals a smooth warmth in a loving, live recording setting. Atkinson gathered together a house band of himself, Troy Sandow, and Scott Smart, who traded off on guitars and bass along with drummers Malachi Johnson and Marty Dodson. He set them all up in one big room, surrounded by vintage gear, with Tucker in the center who taught the players the essence of the blues and his vision for each song, capturing the sound, energy and magic of the moment direct to tape. A few select guests were brought in to add spice and flair to the already sublime tracks. Harmonica master Bob Corritore shares harp duties with Sandow on half the album, while Bob Welch added organ and Kid Ramos and his guitar make an appearance for one cut.
Track Listing 1. Talkin' about you baby 2:13 2. Tired of doing nothing 4:02 3. Why do you let me down so hard 4:12 4. love and Appreciation |lo Georgia) 2:34 5. Seven day blues 3:54 6. Come on home wilh me 2:59 7. Teil you all 3:29 8. Something I want to teil you 3:51 9. Gonna give you one more chance 4:17 10. I wanna do It 3:36 11. Do-right man 3:38 12. One of these days 5:17 13.1 can't walt 3:19 14. listen everybody 3:33 15. You can leave my house 5:38 Total Time: 57min 12sec
Performer List: Johnny Tucker: Vocals (All TracksJ Big Jon Atkinson: Guitar 11,3,4,6,8,9,10,11,12,13,14) Bass (2,5,15| Bob Corritore: Harmonica (3,4,6,10,13) Kid Ramos: Guitar (7) Troy Sandow: Harmonica (2,5,8,1 1,14,15) Bass (1,3,4,6,9,10,1 1,12,13,14) Scott Smart: Guitar (1,2,3,4,5,6,9,10,1 1,12,14,15) Bass (8) Malachi Johnson: Drums (1,2,5,8,9,1 1,12,14,15) Marty Dodson: Drums (3,4
Musicians:
Johnny Tucker -Big Jon Atkinson - Bob Corritore - Kid Ramos -Troy Sondow - Scot Smart
Johnson - Marty Oodson - BobWelch
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