Johnny 'Guitar' Watson

This essential vinyl edition presents Watson’s underrated debut album, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, originally issued by King Records in 1962 and long unavailable on vinyl. The LP contains a collection of studio recordings taped in the early 1960s, most of them produced by the great Johnny Otis (with label manager Syd Nathan as executive producer). The material consists of classic blues songs (“Those Lonely, Lonely Nights”, which was mistitled on the original LP as “Those Lonely, Lonely Feelings”); soulful R&B flavored blues (the Top-10 smash “Cuttin’ In”, and “Posin’”); dance numbers with catchy horns and a rolling piano played by Ernie Freeman (“What You Do to Me”, “Sweet Lovin’ Mama”), as well as touching ballads (“I Just Wants Me Some Love”). The LP even contains a Tin Pan Alley standard with strings (“Embraceable You”). Some of these cuts offer a conscious effort by the King label to cast Watson in a Ray Charles mold, particularly on “Broke and Lonely” and the aforementioned “ I Just Wants Me Some Love”.

1: Cuttin' In
2: Embraceable You
3: Broke and Lonely
4: What You Do to Me
5: Gangster of Love
6: Highway 60
7: Looking Back
8: Deana Baby
9: Those Lonely, Lonely Nights
10: Posin'
11: That's the Chance You've Got to Take
12: I Just Wants Me Some Love
13: Sweet Lovin' Mama
14: You Can't Take It With You
15: One More Kiss
16: Gettin' Drunk

Number of Discs: 1

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