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16910879 | Play | John the Revelator | 03:43 Tools | |
16910914 | Play | Honeydrippin' Baby | 03:48 Tools | |
16910877 | Play | Rockin' My Blues To Sleep | 03:48 Tools | |
16910891 | Play | Curb Your Dog | 02:53 Tools | |
16910882 | Play | Hard Time Livin' | 04:59 Tools | |
16910881 | Play | Hell Bent | 03:23 Tools | |
16910884 | Play | Don't Say I Never Told You So | 02:58 Tools | |
16910890 | Play | Blue & Lonesome (live) | 04:23 Tools | |
55709372 | Play | Milk Cow Blues | 04:57 Tools | |
16910904 | Play | Hey Hey | 03:02 Tools | |
16910878 | Play | My Rice Ain't Got No Gravy | 02:53 Tools | |
16910880 | Play | Broke Again | 02:41 Tools | |
16910896 | Play | Boogie Back To Texas | 03:07 Tools | |
16910883 | Play | Prince Charming | 04:06 Tools | |
16910927 | Play | Johnny's Deathray Boogie (live) | 04:31 Tools | |
16910893 | Play | Mandolin Boogie | 03:36 Tools | |
16910889 | Play | Graveyard Blues | 04:39 Tools | |
16910894 | Play | Mister Moon | 04:46 Tools | |
16910887 | Play | Roads On Fire | 04:15 Tools | |
16910886 | Play | Future Blues | 05:09 Tools | |
16910885 | Play | Sleeping With The Devil | 03:30 Tools | |
16910892 | Play | Kind Hearted Woman | 04:22 Tools | |
16910898 | Play | Dirty People | 05:32 Tools | |
16910916 | Play | House Cleaning Blues (live) | 04:59 Tools | |
16910909 | Play | Too Many Bad Habits | 02:58 Tools | |
16910888 | Play | (It's All Over Now) baby Blue | 05:04 Tools | |
16910905 | Play | I'll Be Around | 04:18 Tools | |
16910911 | Play | Pass Your Tender Lips | 03:35 Tools | |
16910934 | Play | The Last Meal | 03:11 Tools | |
16910908 | Play | I'm A Fool To Care | 02:36 Tools | |
16910918 | Play | Froggy Bottom | 04:21 Tools | |
16910910 | Play | Livin' With The Blues | 03:59 Tools | |
16910917 | Play | Before I Grow Too Old | 04:06 Tools | |
16910899 | Play | Ride Your Train | 02:01 Tools | |
16910912 | Play | The Hustle Is On | 02:17 Tools | |
16910907 | Play | House Cleaning Blues | 03:36 Tools | |
16910906 | Play | That's the Price | 05:23 Tools | |
16910919 | Play | John The Revelator (live) | 04:44 Tools | |
16910933 | Play | You Can't Be Lucky All The Time | 05:09 Tools | |
16910897 | Play | Blue & Lonesome | 04:16 Tools | |
16910903 | Play | Let's Go To Big Houston | 02:44 Tools | |
16910925 | Play | Need Your Love So Bad | 05:00 Tools | |
16910902 | Play | Tomorrow Night | 04:34 Tools | |
16910900 | Play | Steadfast | 05:20 Tools | |
55709374 | Play | Hill Top | 03:55 Tools | |
55709376 | Play | Moonlight Train | 02:45 Tools | |
16910922 | Play | Mamma, Talk To Your Daughter | 03:55 Tools | |
16910901 | Play | Visitor in My Dreams | 05:42 Tools | |
16910921 | Play | Reap What You Sow | 03:07 Tools | |
16910940 | Play | Teardrops On My Windowpane | 04:57 Tools | |
55709373 | Play | Something I Can't Do | 03:59 Tools | |
16910967 | Play | Woke Up Screamin' | 03:57 Tools | |
16910958 | Play | Rain Down Tears | 04:18 Tools | |
55709377 | Play | Red Light | 02:45 Tools | |
16910913 | Play | Terminal Love | 02:57 Tools | |
16910923 | Play | Things I Used To Do | 03:56 Tools | |
16910952 | Play | Texas Drifter | 04:31 Tools | |
16910915 | Play | I'm From Texas | 05:26 Tools | |
55709379 | Play | Blues Time | 02:12 Tools | |
55709382 | Play | Bayou Blues | 03:57 Tools | |
16910926 | Play | Lonesome Traveler | 03:29 Tools | |
16910941 | Play | In The Doorway Cryin' | 04:07 Tools | |
16910931 | Play | Prodigal Son's Waltz | 03:22 Tools | |
55709375 | Play | Down In The Alley | 02:38 Tools | |
16910939 | Play | Johnny's Deathray Boogie | 04:32 Tools | |
16910924 | Play | Thick and Thin | 05:41 Tools | |
16910953 | Play | Where You At? | 02:45 Tools | |
55709386 | Play | Fresh Air | 05:24 Tools | |
16910928 | Play | Glad to Get to Hell | 02:38 Tools | |
55709381 | Play | Kid Man Blues | 03:57 Tools | |
16910944 | Play | Mandolin Moan | 04:59 Tools | |
16910932 | Play | Tomorrow Night (live) | 05:37 Tools | |
87577545 | Play | Roll on Mississippi | 03:57 Tools | |
55709385 | Play | Backdoor Man | 05:24 Tools | |
55709384 | Play | Sweet Katrina | 03:57 Tools | |
16910935 | Play | Phonograph Blues | 03:21 Tools | |
16910964 | Play | Stones In My Pathway | 05:17 Tools | |
16910920 | Play | Let's Go To Big Houston (live) | 04:15 Tools | |
89495140 | Play | Working In The Garden | 04:15 Tools | |
16910943 | Play | Texas Flood | 05:24 Tools | |
16910930 | Play | Prince Charming (live) | 04:06 Tools | |
55709389 | Play | Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar | 03:07 Tools | |
55709388 | Play | Broken Heart | 03:07 Tools | |
16910938 | Play | Thinkin' 'Bout Junior | 02:12 Tools | |
77118283 | Play | Wake up Bobby | 03:07 Tools | |
16910895 | Play | Where You At | 02:45 Tools | |
55709378 | Play | Mandolin Boogie (live) | 02:45 Tools | |
16910929 | Play | Johnny's Deathray Boogie/Thrill on the Hill | 04:31 Tools | |
16910962 | Play | Down In The Valley | 06:01 Tools | |
55709392 | Play | Good Morning Judge | 03:07 Tools | |
55709380 | Play | Kind Hearted Woman (live) | 02:12 Tools | |
16910946 | Play | My Rice Ain't Got No Gravy (live) | 03:57 Tools | |
89495141 | Play | Blues Walk | 03:57 Tools | |
89495142 | Play | Hellhound On My Trail | 03:57 Tools | |
89495143 | Play | Sittin' On Top Of The World | 03:57 Tools | |
89495144 | Play | Looks Can Be Deceivin' | 03:57 Tools | |
16910963 | Play | Boogie Back to Texas (Got the California Blues) | 03:07 Tools | |
55709387 | Play | Thinkin' Bout Junior | 03:07 Tools | |
89495145 | Play | Teardrops On My Window Pane | 03:07 Tools | |
55709391 | Play | Woke Up Screamin ' | 03:07 Tools |
When it comes to Americana Roots Music and especially the Blues, the late great Stephen Bruton knew what he was talking about. Those who knew him knew that he always got to the point. His description of his long time friend and musical comrade in arms is succinct and quite a heady compliment, but then, Johnny Nicholas is an amazing talent. For four decades Johnny’s consummate musicianship and vocal skills have graced live music scenes across the country and abroad. He has toured, performed and recorded with many true blues and Americana Roots Music legends including: Mississippi Fred McDowell, Robert Lockwood Jr., Johnny Shines, Big Walter Horton, Roosevelt Sykes, Nathan Abshire, Robert Pete Williams, Eddie Taylor, Billy Boy Arnold, Hound Dog Taylor, Johnny Young, Houston Stackhouse, and Boogie Woogie Red. He recorded and toured with Johnny Shines and Snooky Pryor, producing and playing guitar on their W.C. Handy Award-winning album Back to the Country. He was a lead vocalist and multi-instrumentalist with Asleep at the Wheel when they won their first of many Grammy Awards. He gave Blues Guitar Icon Ronnie Earl his first gig in the now legendary band Guitar Johnny and the Rhythm Rockers. He has also shared the stage and performed with the likes of Howlin Wolf, BB King, Muddy Waters, Bonnie Rait, Eric Clapton, Pops and Mavis Staples, Delbert McClinton, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard,and Jimmie Vaughan among many others. He can wow a festival crowd of thousands or a small room of devotees. There are mysteries within this history, but remember that true history is written in the uncharted depths of a passionate spirit striving to fathom the mysteries, the pain and the joy of life and love. Here’s what you need to know about Johnny Nicholas—the rest and the best is all in his music. Johnny discovered the blues at an early age, grooving to the great R&B that was blasting from the airwaves in the late 50’s and early 60’s—Jimmy Reed, Lightnin Slim, Slim Harpo, Lloyd Price, Larry Williams, Little Walter, Ray Charles and The Howling Wolf were all Big Blips on this impressionable young man’s radar screen. Like fellow Greek-American Johnny Otis had a generation earlier, this Johnny easily made the leap into the soulful world of the Blues, a music very similar in feeling and expression to the Rembetika music he heard as a child in the Greek community. In 1966, he hopped the train to New York City to see his idol the Wolf. He ended up hanging with Wolf’s band at the Albert Hotel by day (where Wolf’s band AND Muddy’s band and Otis Spann were all staying) and at Ungano’s nightclub by night where the Wolf was holding musical court while on a two week prowl of the Big Apple. This experience cemented his love of the blues while providing inspiration and a gateway to friendships and musical adventures that would help mold a successful career and still smolder in this talented and restless soul. The common thread between all these influences is that of a true storyteller and troubadour, a living connection to the roots of American music that started in the Mississippi Delta and continues to flow down the river of traditional and contemporary sounds that emanate from Johnny Nicholas. “JOHNNY NICHOLAS IS ONE OF THE BEST BLUESMEN EVER, BLACK OR WHITE. ” ~ STEPHEN BRUTON Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.