Johnny Watson

When I said, Ian, he's like the Lone Ranger.

He looked at me like, what are you talking about? But he knew, you know, that song's kind of got a real Johnny Guitar Watson vibe to it.

You know, in the 70s, Johnny Guitar Watson made these kind of disco funk blues records.

Yeah.

So that's kind of what we're coming out.

Roger Troutman.

I mean, shit clip slip would motherfucking find records from the meters and, and, you know, Johnny guitar Watson or, or, you know, he was just a crate digger is what I call it.

So he basically developed our sound with the input of trying to keep a streak of but want to take us to a different level than, you know, NWA or Eazy or whatever or what we was hearing at the time.

So I credit a lot of our sound and jazzy sound because we were able to experiment and just not have to stick because we controlled our own shit.

Wow.

Johnny Guitar Watson is my earliest memory of music for one reason, and I always think about this when I'm making covers.

Yeah.

I think he was sitting in a wagon.

My girlfriend's cleaning up, thank you.

uh so yeah johnny guitar watson hilarious dude yeah uh he did that famous song superman lover which you probably know

i mean just look at the front cover this album for things he's got his mobile but it's like a crib baby's crib or something so

this back in the 50s he like was part of the beginning of the rock and roll scene uh and like he even invented this thing he like he did something weird with a speaker that created this sound that loads of the feedback to use.

And he's just a sick blues guitarist.

This is like I couldn't even think of my favorite solo of his but this is just an example of his style of playing just play it for a minute and

from 1977 Johnny guitar Watson a real mother for ya is playing it 32 minutes 30

He always announces the guitar.

Cool

... and, uh, Slim Harpo, uh, Johnny Guitar Watson.

So I had this guy that I worked with every day who kind of scared me in a good way.

He's like a brother.

Oh, yeah.

Johnny Guitar Watson, uh, whatever the hell it is.

Well, it's not Johnny Guitar, though, or-

Yeah, yeah

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Coco Taylor died on June 3, 2009.

Born on September 29, 1937, Joe Guitar Hughes became one of Houston's finest blues guitarists, inspired at age 14 by Johnny Guitar Watson.

Although less widely known than fellow Texans Albert Collins and Johnny Copeland, Hughes built a respected career through his expressive guitar playing and strong recordings, earning admiration as a skilled representative of the rich Texas blues tradition.

My favorite Clarksdale blues piano player, Lala Craig, was born on September 30, 1961.

So I was out walking and a song from the 1970s came on.

It's an R&B kind of bluesy sort of thing by a guy named Johnny Guitar Watson.

And it is called Ain't That a Bitch? And the reason it jumped out to me was I used to play it when I was in college radio back in the 70s.

The reason it jumped out is because there's a line in there that it says, these prices are so high, even Abdul-Jabbar couldn't hit him with a skyhook.

And so this was his.

And it's done with a sense of humor, but it's also done with a nice R&B blues kind of thing.

So Johnny Guitar Watson was quite an R&B guitarist.

Ain't that a bitch? And do yourself a favor and listen for three and a half minutes.