Johnnie Johnson Sessions with a Keyboard Legend (Full)

Recorded at Utopia Studio, Bearsville, NY, 1999
Johnnie Johnson (Piano)
Jimmy Vivino (Guitar)
James Wormworth (Drums)
Michael Monroe "Mike" Merritt (Bass)

[@stevefranklin5714]

Wonderful, thank you for this

[@jbsbluesbreakers3347]

ah man. this is GOLD. Thank you for sharing

[@АлексЗолотов-ю4ф]

Thanks for that great video!

[@johnjensen4984]

Even the great guitar man playing great 🎸⭐

[@edouglaspratt]

Without Johnny Johnson, Chuck Berry may not have made it. Maybe. Johnny's the unsung hero of Chuck's second gen Rock 'n Roll. Johnny boosted Chuck up into the throne, the King of Rock 'n Roll. Building on first gen Rock... Teddy Bunn, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Goree Carter, Tiny Webb, Gatemouth Brown, Bill Jennings, T-Bone Walker and many more... Chuck strategically targeted his Rock attack on Jim Crow and led the integration of audiences when lynching was incalculably commonplace. And Johnny was the patient, solid, always reliable-when-sober backup man. Together they created rowdy, rebellious masterpieces. And Chuck was the genius vernacular poet and composer with the instigating stage presence; he made Little Richard jealous and maddened Jerry Lee Lewis' racism. Johnny and Chuck each had their demons, Chuck passive-aggressively changing key to confuse, show up, and embarrass his band, but Johnny hung in there and the higher consciousness and joy they gave the world are timeless. And still broadcasting in outer space, I believe literally. If not, figuratively. But surely. -Doug Pratt, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

[@joggejor]

Very well put. Besides the fantastic musicianship, I also still find the lyrics to be so fresh, striking and imaginative, similar to Johnny Guitar Watson's.
"I was campaign-shouting like a southern diplomat"

[@gaveller]

So that's where 'Go Johnnie Go' came from?!?!

[@robertosanchez2344]

Good

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1:07

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2:16

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13:25 normal tempo

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19:25 slower tempo