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Clarence “Jelly” Johnson

Low Down Papa

By Clarence “Jelly” Johnson

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Moanin' The Blues; It's All Over Now; Have Mercy; Dyin' With The Blues; Graveyard Bound; Corn Trimmers; That's Your Yass Yass Yass; The Bye Bye Blues; Five O'Clock Stomp; Houston Blues; Gotta Be Booked Blues; I Wish You Would; I'm Going Away Just To Wear You Off My Mind; Gulf Coast Blues; You're Always Messin' 'Round With My Man; Low Down Papa; Jelly's Blues; He May Be Your Man; Joe Oliver Blues; You Shall Reap What You Sow.

Clarence Johnson: Low Down Papa

by Nic Jones
April 6, 2011

Pianist Clarence “Jelly" Johnson recorded for the Paramount label between 1923 and 1925. He was also accompanist to Chicago blues singers Sodarisa Miller and Edna Taylor amongst others, and recorded piano rolls in New York for the QRS label alongside James P. Johnson and Fats Waller. But, apart from that, very little is known about him, ...