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Infobox musical artist | name = Big Jack Johnson| image = Big Jack Johnson - Chicago Blues Festival 2009.jpg|300px| caption = Big Jack Johnson performing at the Chicago Blues Festival , 2009| image_size = 250| background = solo_singer| birth_name =| alias =| birth_date = Birth date|1940|7|30|mf=y|birth_place = Lambert, Mississippi|Lambert , Mississippi , United States | death_date = Death date and age|2011|3|14|1940|7|30|mf=y Memphis , Tennessee , United States | origin =| instrument = Guitar , human voice|vocals | genre = Delta blues , country blues , electric blues | occupation = Musician , singing|singer , songwriter | years_active = 1960–2011| label = Earwig Records, various| associated_acts = Jelly Roll Kings, Big Jack Johnson and the Oilers| website =| notable_instruments = Big Jack Johnson (July 30, 1940 & ndash; March 14, 2011) http://communityvoices.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php/arts-entertainment-living/blue-notes/27866-mississippi-bluesman-big-jack-johnson-dies Mississippi bluesman Big Jack Johnson diescite web | url= http://www.hudsonriverpark.org/Calendar/art2006/blues/BigJackJohnson.pdf | title=Big Jack Johnson Bio | publisher=JW Entertainment at Hudson River Park web site | format=PDF | accessdate=2007-11-05 Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot was an United States|American electric blues musician .
One commentator noted that Johnson, along with R. L. Burnside , Paul "Wine" Jones , Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes and Super Chikan|James "Super Chikan" Johnson , were "present-day exponents of an edgier, electrified version of the raw, uncut Delta blues sound."cite book | first= Paul | last= Du Noyer | year= 2003 | title= The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music | edition= 1st | publisher= Flame Tree Publishing | location= Fulham, London | isbn= 1-904041-96-5 | page= 160
Biography
Johnson was born in Lambert, Mississippi|Lambert , Mississippi . His father was a blues and country music|country musician. Johnson started playing guitar with him, but in his teens shifted to an electric guitar . After meeting Frank Frost and Sam Carr at the Savoy Theatre in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1962, they preformed as The Jelly Roll Kings and The Nighthawkscite news | last = Russell | first = Tony | url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jun/01/big-jack-johnson-obituary | date = 2011-06-01 | accessdate = 2011-10-22 | Big Jack Johnson Obituary | location=London | work=The Guardian for 15 years, recording for Phillips International and Jewel Records with Frost as the bandleader .
The 1979 Earwig Music Company|Earwig Music release ''Rockin' the Juke Joint Down'' marked Johnson's first sound recording and reproduction|recordings as a singing|singer . Johnson's subsequent 1987 album for Earwig, The Oil Man , included his recording of "Catfish Blues." He has recorded both solo (music)|solo and as a member of the blues groups the Jelly Roll Kings and Big Jack Johnson and the Oilers (with poet/musician Dick Lourie ).
He performed and wrote "Jack's Blues" and performed "Catfish Medley" with Samuel L. Jackson on the Black Snake Moan (film)|Black Snake Moan , film soundtrack .cite web | url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462200/soundtrack | title=Soundtracks for Black Snake Moan | publisher=at the Internet Movie Database | accessdate=2007-11-05 Daddy, When Is Mama Comin Home? , his ambitious 1990 set for Earwig, presented social concernscite web |first= Bill |last= Dahl |url=Allmusic|class=artist|id=p391/biography|pure_url=yes|title=Allmusic biography |publisher=Allmusic.com|accessdate=2011-10-22
Johnson died from an undisclosed illness on March 14, 2011. According to family members, he had struggled with health issues in his final years, worsening to the point that there were erroneous reports of his death several times in the weeks prior to his death.citation needed|date=October 2011
Source:cite web|url=Allmusic|class=artist|id=p391/discography|pure_url=yes|title=Allmusic ((( Big jack Johnson > Discography > Main Albums )))
Filmography
The Jewish Cowboys (2003) (TV)
Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads (1992)
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IMDb name|0424590|Big Jack Johnson
Persondata | NAME = Johnson, Big Jack | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = American electric blues musician | DATE OF BIRTH = July 30, 1940 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Lambert, Mississippi|Lambert , Mississippi , United States | DATE OF DEATH = March 14, 2011 | PLACE OF DEATH = Memphis , Tennessee , United States DEFAULTSORT:Johnson, Big Jack Category:1940 births Category:2011 deaths Category:American blues musicians Category:American blues guitarists Category:American blues singers Category:American male singers Category:Songwriters from Mississippi Category:Blues musicians from Mississippi Category:People from Clarksdale, Mississippi
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