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Johnny "Guitar" Watson
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Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson - guitarist, vocalist A working bluesman since his teenage years in the early 1950s, Johnny "Guitar" Watson scored numerous chart successes in the 1970s with a unique guitar-based sound that mixed the feel and instrumental technique of the blues with the bass-heavy sound of funk. Watson also excelled as a vocalist. His singing was by turns sexy, humorous, and political; his guitar playing exploited the full range of the instrument's powers. He was also a prolific songwriter. When Watson died in 1996 at the age of 61, he was receiving the most modern form of musical homage: rappers and hip-hop musicians quoting or "sampling" his recordings. Watson was born in Houston on February 3, 1935
One Size Fits All 50th Anniversary Edition
By Frank Zappa
Label: Zappa Records
Released: 2025
Track listing:
CD 1:
Inca Roads; Can't Afford No Shoes; Sofa No. 1; Po-Jama People; Florentine Pogen; Evelyn, A Modified Dog; San Ber'dino; Andy; Sofa No. 2; Inca Roads – Rough Mix; Ralph Stuffs His Shoes – “Token” Outtake; Ralph Stuffs His Shoes – Basic Tracks, Take 5; Ralph Stuffs His Shoes – Instrumental Mix, Master Take; Can’t Afford No Shoes – Rough Mix; Sofa No. 1 – Basic Tracks, Take 6; Sofa No. 1 – Master Take, Early Mix.
CD 2:
Po-Jama People – Old Mix; Florentine Pogen – Rough Mix; Florentine Pogen – Alternate Solo; Evelyn, A Modified Dog – Session Outtakes; Bitch, Bitch, Bitch – In Rehearsal; Bitch, Bitch, Bitch – Basic Tracks, Take 1; San Ber’dino – Rough Mix I; San Ber’dino – Rough Mix II; San Ber’dino – Rough Mix III; Something/Anything – Rough Mix; Andy – Rough Mix; Sofa No. 2 – Rough Mix.
CD 3:
Live In Rotterdam, 28/9/1974: Tush Tush Tush (A Token Of My Extreme); Stink-Foot; Inca Roads; Approximate; Cosmik Debris; Florentine Pogen; Montana; RDNZL.
CD 4:
Live In Rotterdam, 28/9/1974 + bonus live tracks: Dupree’s Paradise Intro; Blind Mice Blues; Dupree’s Paradise – Part 1; Dupree’s Paradise – Part 2; Pygmy Twylyte; Room Service; Tush Tush Tush (End Vamp); Ralph Stuffs His Shoes – Live in Gothenburg, Sweden, 25/9/1974; Po-Jama People – Live in Gothenburg, Sweden, 25/9/1974.
Sun Ra Arkestra at SFJAZZ Center
by Harry S. Pariser
Sun Ra Arkestra SFJAZZ Center Summer Season San Francisco July 18-21, 2023 Though on the surface, Dead & Company and the Sun Ra Arkestra--the first a Grateful Dead offshoot focusing on rock tunes featuring extended jams, the other an avant-garde jazz ensemble that remains ahead of its time--might seem really ...
Jon Cleary: The New Orleans Collection: So Swell
by Pierre Giroux
Newvelle Records, which was established in 2015, believes that in the digital age there is an opportunity to build a new model for the creating and distributing music. Each year, Newvelle releases a series of six albums, exclusively on vinyl, that pairs musicians with celebrated artists, writers and poets. The New Orleans Collection contains four single ...
Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2019
by John Kelman
Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Various Venues Montréal, Canada June 27 -July 1, 2019 Forty years. Not a lifetime, perhaps, but a remarkably long time for any festival to not only continue to exist but, despite increasing challenges, to thrive. An even greater achievement when it's the Festival International de ...
Ron Carter: Always at the Center of the Action
by Victor L. Schermer
Great jazz bassists can always be identified by the fact that you really listen to them! A good jazz bassist keeps good time and gets the chords right, but a great bassist, going as far back as Jimmy Blanton, Scott LaFaro, Charlie Haden, or Jimmy Garrison, catches your ear because you're surprised and moved by what ...
We Want Groove: Rock Candy Funk Party
by Glenn Astarita
This quartet repurposes the jazz-funk sounds of yesteryear into a tasteful, eclectic mix, packed with memorable compositions and aided by the crystalline recording process, enabling the music to breathe amid great detail and depth. Featuring blues-rock guitar hero Joe Bonamassa trading licks with guitarist Ron DeJesus, Rock Candy Funk Party was recorded at drummer Tal Bergman's ...
Johnny "Guitar" Watson: Blues Masters: The Very Best of Johnny "Guitar" Watson
by Ed Kopp
Johnny “Guitar" Watson was a vastly underappreciated blues and R&B trendsetter whose adventurous guitar style influenced the likes of Bo Diddley, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa. The Very Best of Johnny “Guitar" Watson focuses on the years 1952 through 1963, the period when Watson made his best music. Many of these tracks were previously unavailable on ...
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