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Earl Johnson Vol 1 1927 £7.49

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Earl Johnson

TRACK LIST

Earl Johnson 01 - Ain`t nobody`s business 02 - Dixie 03 - Hen cackle 04 - Bully of the town 05 - I`m satisfied 06 - Three night`s experience 07 - Johnson`s old grey mule 08 - Boil dem cabbage down 09 - John Henry blues 10 - I don`t love nobody 11 - Shortenin` bread 12 - I get my whiskey from rockingham 13 - Red hot breakdown 14 - I`ve got a woman on sourwood mountain 15 - All night long 16 - Old grey mare kicking out of the wilderness 17 - They don`t roost too high for me 18 - Mississippi jubilee 19 - Leather breeches 20 - Poor little Joe 21 - The little grave in Georgia 22 - In the shadow of the pine 23 - Johnnie, get your gun

Robert Earl Johnson learned to play the fiddle from an early age, partly with some assistance from his father. When he was young, he used to practise together with his two brothers, Albert on banjo and Ester on guitar.[1] Between 1920 and 1934, Johnson was a regular participant at the Atlanta Fiddlers' Convention.[2] In 1923, Albert and Ester were the victims of an epidemic.[3] The same year, Johnson joined Fiddlin' John Carson's Virginia Reelers and within two years, he made his first recordings on Paramount Records. Initially, he recorded with the "Dixie String Band" and Arthur Tanner.[1] He became the Georgia state fiddle champion of 1926 in Atlanta.[4] Johnson formed the "Dixie Entertainers with guitarist Byrd Moore and banjoist Emmett Bankston and they made their first recordings for Okeh Records on February 21, 1927. When Byrd Moore left, Johnson added guitarist Lee "Red" Henderson and formed "The Clodhoppers". The new band became successful recording for Okeh in October 1927. Although he made his last recordings in 1931,[1] he continued to perform on the radio and on fiddlers' conventions for the remainder of his life. His last performance was on May 24, 1965 at the Stone Mountain Fiddlers' Convention in Georgia.[4] No less than a week later, he died of a heart attack.[5] Biog details courtesy of Wikipedia