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Big Jack Johnson - Roots Stew (2000)

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Big Jack Johnson - Roots Stew (2000)

Big Jack Johnson - Roots Stew (2000)
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Genre: Blues | Label: M.C. Records | Catalog Number: 0039 | Release Date: 11.Apr 2000 | RAR 5% Rec. | RS.com

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1. Jump For Joy 3:38
2. Hummingbird 4:41
3. Since I Met You Babe 4:47
4. Cherry Tree 5:15
5. You're Gonna Make Me Cry 4:19
6. Late Night With Jack 7:21
7. Too Many Rats 5:07
8. Going Too Far 5:33
9. Beale Street 3:45
10. I'm Trying To Do All I Can 6:50
11. I Wanna Go Home 6:10
12. So Long Frank Frost 6:02


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*****No Pass*****




Review by Cub Koda
Johnson's third album for M.C. is his strongest outing to date, with more than its share of interesting little wrinkles. With the exception of one tune, Johnson penned everything on here, all of them sturdy juke-joint-styled blues that spotlight his trebly accented guitar work and husky vocals. But the real surprises are his acoustic tracks, where he plays driving mandolin in emulation of Yank Rachell, especially on his heartfelt tribute "So Long Frank Frost." Another off-the-wall delight is his eerily evocative instrumental take of "Since I Met You Baby" played on electric lap steel. A very strong effort, and one well worth picking up.



by Bill Dahl

Contemporary Mississippi blues doesn't get any nastier than in Big Jack Johnson's capable hands. The ex-oil truck driver's axe cuts like a rusty machete, his rough-hewn vocals a siren call to Delta passion. But he's a surprisingly versatile songwriter; Daddy, When Is Mama Comin Home?, his ambitious 1990 set for Earwig, found him tackling issues as varied as AIDS, wife abuse, and Chinese blues musicians in front of slick, horn-leavened arrangements!

Big Jack Johnson was a chip off the old block musically. His dad was a local musician playing both blues and country ditties at local functions; by the time he was 13 years old, Johnson was sitting in on guitar with his dad's band. At age 18, Johnson was following B.B. King's electrified lead. His big break came when he sat in with bluesmen Frank Frost and Sam Carr at the Savoy Theatre in Clarksdale. The symmetry between the trio was such that they were seldom apart for the next 15 years, recording for Phillips International and Jewel with Frost, the bandleader.

Chicago blues aficionado Michael Frank was so mesmerized by the trio's intensity when he heard them playing in 1975 at Johnson's Mississippi bar, the Black Fox, that Frank Frost eventually formed Earwig just to capture their steamy repertoire. That album, Rockin' the Juke Joint Down, came out in 1979 (as by the Jelly Roll Kings) and marked Johnson's first recordings as a singer.

Johnson's subsequent 1987 album for Earwig, The Oil Man, still ranks as his most intense and moving, sporting a hair-raising rendition of "Catfish Blues." The '90s have been good to Big Jack Johnson. In addition to Daddy, When is Mama Comin Home?, he released a live record and two studio albums — 1996's We Got to Stop This Killing and 1998's All the Way Back. He also appeared in the acclaimed film documentary Deep Blues and on its resulting soundtrack, returning in 2000 with Roots Stew.






Other Big Jack Johnson
Big Jack Johnson - Daddy, When Is Mama Coming Home (1991)
Big Jack Johnson - We Got To Stop This Killin' (1996)
Big Jack Johnson - Live In Chicago (1997)
Big Jack Johnson - All The Way Back (1998)