Texas Johnny Brown is truly one of the legendary figures of the American blues
scene. Johnny began his professional musical career in Houston in the
mid-1940s with
Amos Milburn's
"Aladdin Chickenshackers". Johnny played guitar on many of Milburn's
recordings on Aladdin Records, and Milburn and other members of his band
backed Johnny during his Atlantic Records recording session in 1949. Johnny
also appeared on
Ruth Brown's
first Atlantic Records recordings, which were cut during those sessions. Three
of Johnny's original songs from his Atlantic session, There Goes the Blues,
Bongo Boogie and Blues Rock, were included on an Atlantic compilation of blues
guitarists in 1986. Johnny recut There Goes the Blues for his debut
full-length CD, Nothin' But the Truth, which was released in 1998 by Choctaw
Creek Records. Johnny toured with
Bobby "Blue" Bland and
Junior Parker
in the 1950s and 1960s as guitarist and bandleader and was a studio musician
for Houston's Duke/Peacock Records. He recorded a number of his own
compositions for Duke/Peacock, including Snakehips and Suspense, and his
distinctive guitar style graced the recordings of numerous other Duke/Peacock
blues artists, including
Bland,
Parker and
Joe Hinton.
Johnny also wrote the beautiful blues classic, Two Steps from the Blues, which
was one of Bland's biggest hits. Nothin' But the Truth marks the first time
that Johnny recorded Two Steps from the Blues himself. Nothin' But the Truth
also contains nine new original compositions by Johnny and an instrumental
version of Aretha Franklin's Am 't No Way. Nothin' But the Truth was nominated
for a W.C. Handy Blues Award (1999) for Comeback Album of the Year and
received Real Blues Magazine '5 Real Blues Awards as Best Texas Blues CD (New)
and Best Independently Released Blues CD for 1998.
(quoted from Texas Johnny Brown's official website)
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