Can I Get an Amen

Legendary guitar player Johnny Jones comes from the same 50s Chicago scene that produced many a great blues musician over the years. Originally from Eads, Tennessee, Johnny became enthralled with the guitar as a teenager after witnessing a Joe Hill Louis performance and it was in Chicago where he played some of his earliest gigs with Junior Wells and Freddie King. Later moving to Memphis and working with many of the great blues names of the times, Johnny eventually formed the recording group The King Casuals, of which featured an up and coming young guitarist by the name of Jimi Hendrix. The impressionable young Jimi was enthralled with Johnny's biting and dirty guitar licks and picked up much from him. Following lengthy stints with Earl Gains and Bobby `Blue' Bland and discouraged by the hard life and little financial rewards of so many of the day's bluesmen, Johnny semi retired from the biz, only playing local shows in the still healthy Nashville area. Following the massive resurgence in traditional blues in the 90s, Johnny found himself recording for the Dutch label Black Magic, releasing his first real album, I Was Raised On The Blues. It is from the ensuing 1998 tour of Europe that Can I Get An Amen was recorded. A stellar and well recorded live performance with his band from The Muhle Hunziken in Bern, Switzerland, Can I Get An Amen captures an evening with the phenomenal blues guitar of the one and only Johnny Jones.