Artist: Jimmy Johnson feat. Lucky Peterson & Billy Branch
Album: I’m a Jockey
Genre: Blues
Label: Dreyfus Jazz
Year Of Release: 1993/2003
Format: FLAC (image+.cue)
Tracklist:
That Will Never Do
Jockey
Engine Number
My Ring
Highway 13
As The Years Go Passing By
Black And White Wall
The Highway Is A Like A Woman
In The Midnight Hiur
End Of A Rainbow
Look Over Yonder’s Wall
It shouldn’t have taken Johnson a full decade to find his way back into a studio, but such are the injustices of the record business. The wait was worth it, though — backed by his touring trio of the timeframe, Johnson mixes blues and soul, originals (a heartfelt “Black & White Wall” and the soaring ballad “My Ring”) and covers (his takes on McKinley Mitchell’s “End of a Rainbow” and Wilson Pickett’s “Engine Number 9” hit home), in decidedly solid contemporary form.
Review by Bill Dahl
