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▄▄▓██████▓▄▄▄▄ artist..: king solomon ░ ▀ ▐▓▌
▓███████████████▓▄▄ album...: blues take one ▓█▓
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▓████████▓▓ ▀█▓ genre..: blues ███
▓████████▓▌ █▓ ripdate: 10.06.2004 ██▓
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▐▓███████▓▓ This is the debut album for Johny B. Willis, ▓▓███████▓▌
▓▓███████▓▓ aka, King Solomon. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ Johny B. Willis was born on October 14, 1956, to ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Casey and Christine Willis in Tutwilier, ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Mississippi. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ Johny's parents were poor cotton pickers in ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ rural Mississippi who lived in a small rundown ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ house about 80 miles southeast of Memphis, ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Tennessee. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ Casey and Christine separated when Johny was one ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ and a half years old. Six months later Christine ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ left Mississippi and moved to St. Paul, ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Minnesota hoping for a better life for herself, ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Johny, and his older brother and sister. Johny's ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ grandmother gave Christine her life's savings of ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ $500.00 dollars to start out on her new life. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ Christine remained on welfare for five or six ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ years after moving north for a new start. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ Casey Willis was found dead in the Mississippi ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ River about seven months before he was to go up ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ to be with his family again. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ Little Stevie Wonder was an early influence that ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ inspired Johny's desire to play music. Johny ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ also had two uncles who played and sung music, ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ and an aunt who wrote songs. Johny was very ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ proud and happy when his mother bought him an ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Imitation electric guitar when he was twelve ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ years old. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ Bass guitar is Johny's instrument of choice; ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ although, he also plays some keyboard and lead ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ guitar. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ Johny started his professional career at age 23 ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ when he joined the Percy Strother band in ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Minnesota. Strother opened for some of the blues ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ greats such as B B King and Koko Taylor. Johny ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ has also played gigs with the late great ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Temptations. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ A long musical career has taken Johny all over ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ America, Amsterdam, Belgium, England, Germany, ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ and Canada. It has always been his desire to ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ have his own band. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ Rockin J Recording Company also debuts its ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ company with this album. George L. Carmouche and ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Ann B. Carmouche are the owners of the company, ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ which started in 2004 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ Carmouche discovered Johny's unique vocal ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ potential while he was performing during a jam ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ session at Swamp Mama's Blues Cafe in Baton ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Rouge. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ Immediately after meeting, Carmouche and Willis ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ soon learned that they were both songwriters ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ with a love of music, approaching a spiritual ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ plane. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ A collaboration of soulful lyrics mixed with a ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ gumbo of down home musical talent has produced ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ what we believe is an album second to none in ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ this genre. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ A love of music with rhythm and spirituality, ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ particularly blues, jazz, and old time rock & ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ roll is the foundation upon which Rockin J ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Recording Company begins what Carmouche has high ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ hopes will be - a new creative influence to ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ music lovers all over the world. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ Johny B. Willis is the company's first artist, ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ and he possesses an emotional and spiritual ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ union with the lyrics and measures produced on ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ this debut album. Carmouche and Willis both ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ share the connection to good lyrics and melody. ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Both sense that the universal energy of karma ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ birthed their collaboration to produce Blues ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Take One. They also expect to present many more ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ albums, conjured up from deep within their ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ souls. Every song is produced with the pride of ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ a fine craftsman. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ "Lost a good thing", was written by Johny after ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ losing his first love. Once was enough for Johny ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ and he wants to give special credit to his new ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ wife, Mary for her participation and patience ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ during the production of this project. Mary ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ performed the voice over on "Smokin That Stuff." ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ A special thanks to Lester "pick" Delmore for ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ his fantastic contribution on the drums, Ian ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Webster for his unique sound on lead guitar, and ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Nelson Blanchard for first class keyboard. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ It is hoped that "Pick" and Ian will join ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Solomon as members of the band. ▓▓███████▓▓
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▓▓███████▓▓ The album was recorded at Techno Sound Recording ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Studio in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The owner, ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ Nelson Blanchard has so many talents that were ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ lent to this recording that they are too ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ numerous to mention. His meticulous mixing and ▓▓███████▓▓
▓▓███████▓▓ mastering of the final cut created a first class ▓▓███████▓▓
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