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Tommy JohnsonBig Road Blues ()

MP3 of "Big Road Blues" by Tommy Johnson


This audio is part of the collection: 78 RPMs & Cylinder Recordings

Artist/Composer: Tommy Johnson
Date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
Source: Public Domain 4U
Keywords: Blues

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Reviewer: JSHNYC - - October 22, 2007
Subject: never heard a bad version of this song...
Never heard a bad version of this song......but my favorite version would have to be Willie Lofton's, which he recorded as "Dark Road Blues" and added a savage fret-tapping riff that sounds literally like he's beating the E string against the frets with his fist. Tommy's is slower and sedate but has a nice menacing undercurrent to it.

My fave Tommy Johnson song, "Canned Heat Blues", is also available elsewhere on archive.org.

Reviewer: richjw - - September 16, 2007
Subject: Tommy Johnson
Nice to hear a nice clear MP3 of this tune. I wonder if anyone can upload "Cool Drink of Water Blues", another great Tommy Johnson song?

Reviewer: hasfleas - - October 19, 2006
Subject: big treasure
great to hear a clear version of this favourite of mine

Reviewer: gankmore - - July 15, 2004
Subject: not related to the GD version
still great, I'm just saying, same name! But deadheads will recognize "the sun gonna shine in my back door some day."