The Oil Man

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:42:13
Personnel: Big Jack Johnson (vocals, guitar); Frank Frost (piano); Walter Roy (bass); Ernest Roy (drums). Producers: Michael Robert Frank/Jack Johnson. Recorded at Acme Recording, Chicago, Illinois on June 7 & 8, 1986. Includes liner notes by Michael Robert Frank. Personnel: Big Jack Johnson (vocals, guitar); Frank Frost (piano). Audio Remixer: Paul Smith . Liner Note Author: Michael Robert Frank. Recording information: ACME Recording, Chicago, IL (06/07/1986/06/08/1986). Photographers: Patty Johnson; Alan Howell. Unknown Contributor Role: Tom Doerr. Arranger: Big Jack Johnson. Throughout the '60s and '70s, guitarist/vocalist Johnson performed with Frank Frost and Sam Carr in the Jelly Roll Kings, a gritty, soulful blues trio. Through a circuitous route, he finally recorded this, his first solo album, over the course of two days in 1986. Frost turns up on piano, but THE OIL MAN is clearly Johnson's show. He makes his Chicago roots clear with two Howlin' Wolf covers ("Killing Floor" and "How Many More Years") and the Muddy Waters-associated "Catfish Blues," but even at this early date, the country influences that would later become more prevalent are heard (Merle Travis's "Steel Guitar Rag"). Though his is a raw, hardcore electric blues sound, Johnson isn't afraid to let his outside interests show. Walter Roy's bass playing, which would define the subsequent sound of Johnson's rhythm section even when Roy wasn't in it, owes more to the punchy tone of Jack Bruce than to Willie Dixon. Throughout THE OIL MAN, Johnson's cutting, uncomplicated guitar work and emotive vocals maintain an impressive viscerality.
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)