Big Jack Johnson & The Oilers

Big Jack Johnson July 30 1940 – March 14 2011 Was An American Electric Blues Musician. One Commentator Noted That Johnson Along With R. L. Burnside Paul "Wine" Jones Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes And James "Super Chikan" Johnson Were "present-Day Exponents Of An Edgier Electrified Version Of The Raw Uncut Delta Blues Sound." Biography Johnson Was Born In Lambert Mississippi. His Father Was A Blues And Country Musician. Johnson Started Playing Guitar With Him But In His Teens Shifted To An Electric Guitar. After Meeting Frank Frost And Sam Carr At The Savoy Theatre In Clarksdale Mississippi In 1962 They Preformed As The Jelly Roll Kings And The Nighthawks For 15 Years Recording For Phillips International And Jewel Records With Frost As The Bandleader. The 1979 Earwig Music Release Rockin' The Juke Joint Down Marked Johnson's First Recordings As A Singer. Johnson's Subsequent 1987 Album For Earwig The Oil Man Included His Recording Of "Catfish Blues." He Has Recorded Both Solo And As A Member Of The Blues Groups The Jelly Roll Kings And Big Jack Johnson And The Oilers With Poet/musician Dick Lourie . He Performed And Wrote "Jack's Blues" And Performed "Catfish Medley" With Samuel L. Jackson On The Black Snake Moan Film Soundtrack. Daddy When Is Mama Comin Home? His Ambitious 1990 Set For Earwig Presented Social Concerns Johnson Died From An Undisclosed Illness On March 14 2011. According To Family Members He Had Struggled With Health Issues In His Final Years Worsening To The Point That There Were Erroneous Reports Of His Death Several Times In The Weeks Prior To His Death. Citation Needed Partial Discography The Oil Man 1987 Rooster Blues 1987 Daddy When Is Mama Comin' Home 1991 We Got To Stop This Killin' 1996 Live In Chicago 1997 All The Way Back* 1998 Live In Chicago* 1998 Roots Stew* 2000 The Memphis Barbecue Sessions 2002 Black Snake Moan 2007 Filmography The Jewish Cowboys 2003 TV Deep Blues A Musical Pilgrimage To The Crossroads 1992 read less