Johnny Guitar Watson Essential Works 1953-1962 Vinyl LP 2023

LP 1

1.Highway 60
2.No I Can't
3.Motorhead Baby
4.I Got Eyes
5.What's Going On
6.Thinking
7.Half Pint of Whiskey
8.Space Guitar
9.Getting Drunk
10.Hot Little Mama
11.Don't Touch Me
12.Three Hours Past Midnight
13.Love Me Baby
14.She Moves Me

LP 2

1.Gangster of Love
2.One Room Country Shack
3.Deana Baby
4.The Bear
5.One More Kiss
6.Johnny Guitar
7.Untouchable
8.Sweet Lovin' Mama
9.I Just Wants Me Some Love
10.Cuttin' In
11.Broke and Lonely
12.Posin'
13.The Eagle Is Back
14.Looking Back

A singer/guitarist known for two essential albums in the funk sphere - 'Ain't That a Bitch' and 'A Real Mother For You' - Johnny Watson was first of all a highly respected bluesman with close ties to the R&B scene of the fifties. When Johnny Watson's grandfather died, he left his grandson a guitar, but Grandma insisted that Johnny shouldn't ever play 'the devil's music' - the blues - on such a 'holy' instrument that had accompanied so many gospels. Johnny at once thought about nothing else. In Los Angeles he would spend the fifties under the influence of Amos Milburn and Chuck Higgins, with whom he played for a time before creating his own group to trawl through every club in the city.