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Big Jack Johnson (born July 30, 1940, Lambert, Mississippi) is a modern electric blues musician. He has recorded both solo and as a member of the blues groups the Jelly Roll Kings and Big Jack Johnson and the Oilers. He performed and wrote “Jack’s Blues” and performed “Catfish Medley” with Samuel L. Jackson on the Black Snake Moan film soundtrack.
Big Jack Johnson, born July 30, 1940 in Lambert MS is one of the most popular and influential of the contemporary Delta Blues musicians active today. He is affectionately known as the “Oil Man”, a nickname he earned during his early years working for Shell Oil as a truck driver. He was first influenced by his father to take up the guitar and quickly mastered the finer points of the blues by sitting in with his father’s band around the area in his early teens. As a young blues musician, he came under the sway of the eloquent electric single string work of BB and Albert King.
Influenced not only by the blues music all around him, but also by the sounds of the white Country artists emanating out of the Grand Ole Opry, Big Jack’s music is that of the Mississippi juke joint. He peppers his blues with not only the traditional blues of his fellow Mississippi and Chicago forbearers but also brings elements of funk and soul that keeps the dance floors packed.
Big Jack Johnson, born July 30, 1940 in Lambert MS is one of the most popular and influential of the contemporary Delta Blues musicians active today. He is affectionately known as the “Oil Man”, a nickname he earned during his early years working for Shell Oil as a truck driver. He was first influenced by his father to take up the guitar and quickly mastered the finer points of the blues by sitting in with his father’s band around the area in his early teens. As a young blues musician, he came under the sway of the eloquent electric single string work of BB and Albert King.
Influenced not only by the blues music all around him, but also by the sounds of the white Country artists emanating out of the Grand Ole Opry, Big Jack’s music is that of the Mississippi juke joint. He peppers his blues with not only the traditional blues of his fellow Mississippi and Chicago forbearers but also brings elements of funk and soul that keeps the dance floors packed.
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Aeroslavee
Fortunately found out about him today! RIP
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Gypsy_51
Dear Big Jack Johnson, rest in peace! God bless your family.
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morticiagurl
We'll miss you Big Jack! Gone too soon, but what a sound you left for us! Rest in peace.
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ogilouk
еееееееееее
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JoshCIVM
Oh yeah.
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adam-uk
Like Jack Johnson... but bigger!
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