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| Artist : Johnnie Bassett |
| Album : The Gentleman Is Back |
| Bitrate : VBR kbps |
| Label : Sly Dog |
| Year : 2009 |
| Genre : Blues |
| Rip date : Jun-14-2009 |
| Store date : Jun-30-2009 |
| Size : 70,5 MB |
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|Track Listing: |
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| 01 - Woman's Got Ways 05:05 |
| 02 - Keep Your Hands Off My Baby 03:58 |
| 03 - Nice Guys Finish Last 05:43 |
| 04 - Georgia 05:16 |
| 05 - Real Gitchieegumee 02:50 |
| 06 - Feeling Lucky Baby 05:11 |
| 07 - Meat On Them Bones 04:41 |
| 08 - I'm Lost 05:02 |
| 09 - I Can't See What I Saw In You 04:58 |
| 10 - I Love The Way You Look 04:26 |
| 11 - My Old Flame 07:26 |
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| 54:36 min |
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| Guitarist, singer and songwriter Johnnie Bassett grew up with blues |
| music all around him in his native Florida. His unique ability to |
| combine jump blues and Delta stylings gives his playing a distinctive |
| sound.s |
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| The self-taught guitarist recalls seeing Tampa Red, Arthur "Big Boy" |
| Crudup and other classic blues artists at fish fries in his |
| grandmother's backyard. Bassett cites Aaron "T-Bone" Walker as a major |
| influence, as well as B.B. and Albert King, Tiny Grimes and Billy |
| Butler. |
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| After Bassett's family moved to Detroit in 1944, he made his debut as a |
| guitarist with Joe Weaver and the Bluenotes, a teenage R&B band. The |
| group won local talent contests and were hired to back up Big Joe |
| Turner, Ruth Brown and others on their tour stops in Detroit. Bassett |
| went into the Army in 1958 and played in a country & western group while |
| stationed in Washington state. |
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| After returning to Detroit, he found work as a session guitarist for |
| Fortune Records by day and in nightclubs at night. In the studios, he |
| played backup to musicians and groups like Nolan Strong and the Diablos, |
| Andre Williams and the Don Juans and the Five Dollars. He also played |
| guitar on the first recording by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles while |
| traveling to Chicago to record as a session man for the Chess Records |
| label. During his Detroit days, he also accompanied John Lee Hooker, |
| Eddie Burns, Alberta Adams, Lowell Fulson and the T.J. Fowler Band at |
| their live shows, as well as Dinah Washington. |
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| In the 1960s, Bassett moved to Seattle, where he backed up Tina Turner, |
| Little Willie John and others. Jimi Hendrix was a frequent guest at the |
| bluesman's club gigs around Seattle. Before the decade ended, he moved |
| back to Detroit, where he's been based ever since. |
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| In 1994, Bassett received a lifetime achievement award from the Detroit |
| Blues Society. He later recorded an album for the Dutch Black Magic |
| label, I Gave My Life to the Blues (1996). Bassett and his band, the |
| Blues Insurgents ù which he's been fronting since the early 1990s ù have |
| made several U.S., Canadian and European tours in support of LPs |
| including 1997's Bassett Hound and 1998's Cadillac Blues. |
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