Time: 48:25
File: Flac
Released: 1999
Styles: Blues
Art: Front
1. I Don't Know Why (3:39)
2. You Don't Have to Go (4:12)
3. What You've Been Putting Down (5:09)
4. It's My Life Baby (4:27)
5. Stealing Chickens (4:00)
6. Love My Baby (2:57)
7. Five Long Years (5:23)
8. Hello Josephine (4:12)
9. C As In Chester (4:40)
10. If Blues Were Whiskey (3:56)
11. Rynborn Boogie (5:45)
In his early years in Mississippi, blues and gospel were his defining musical influences. It was during this period that he heard blues greats like Sonny Boy Williamson II, Robert Nighthawk, and Muddy Waters. His mother gave him his first guitar, and his cousin taught him to play it.
Johnson came to Chicago in the mid-1950s at a time when the West Side guitar style of Magic Sam and Otis Rush was developing. It was there that he chose the blues. During the 1960s, he played in Magic Sam's band and performed with various blues greats such as Sunnyland Slim, Bobby Rush, Little Addison, Willie Kent, and Jimmy Dawkins. From 1972 to 1980, he was a member of Muddy Waters' band, which also helped him achieve success. His first solo album, Luther's Blues, was also released during one of his tours with Waters.
In 1980, he left Waters' band and formed his own band, the Magic Rockers.[4] He also left Chicago and settled near Boston, but remained true to the West Side style, even as he shifted his repertoire towards jump blues. Since 1980, he has been the frontman of The Magic Rockers, recording for Telarc, Alligator Records, and Bullseye Blues, and undertaking extensive tours.
Live at the Rynborn FLAC
