JOHNNY 'GUITAR' WATSON: Ganster of Love, 1957

JOHNNY 'GUITAR' WATSON:

Born February 3, 1935
Houston, Texas
Died May 17, 1996 (aged 61)
Yokohama, Japan
Genres Blues, blues-rock, electric blues, jazz blues, funk
Instruments Guitar, keyboards, bass, drums
Years active 1950s–1990s
Labels Federal, RPM, Keen, King, Chess, Fantasy, DJM




Ganster of Love
1957

Released 1957
Recorded 1953 - 1954
Genre Blues
Electric blues
Blues rock
Label Keen Records (1957)
King Records (1958)
Sanctuary Records (2002)

"I Got Eyes"
"Motorhead Baby"
"Gettin Drunk"
"Walkin To My Baby"
"Highway 60"
"Space Guitar (alt)"
"Sad Fool"
"What's Going On"
"Half Pint of Whiskey"
"No I Can't"
"Thinking"
"Broke and Lonely"
"Cuttin In"
"What You Do to Me"
"Those Lonely, Lonely Nights"
"You Can't Take It With You"
"I Just Wants Me Some Love"
"Gangster of Love"
"Space Guitar"
"Sweet Lovin Mama"


Johnny "Guitar" Watson - organ, synthesizer, bass, guitar, piano, conga, drums, keyboards, timbales, triangle, vocals, clavinet
Rudy Copeland, James Ivory Johnson, Randie Redman, Darcus Thomas, Marci Thomas, - vocals (bckgr)
Paul Dunmall, Knud Jensen - saxophone
Bruce Fowler - trombone, horn
Walt Fowler - trumpet, horn
Peter Martin Trumpet
Tommy Robertson - trombone
Emry Thomas - drums, vocals (bckgr), whistle, siren, bell tree
Albert Wing - horn, sax







Gangster Of Love
Johnny "Guitar" Watson

Jesse James and Frank James,
Billy the Kid and all the rest,
Supposed to be some bad cats
Out in the West.

But when they dug me,
And my gangster ways,
They hung up their guns,
And made into their graves.

Cause I'm a gangster of love,
Say, I'm a gangster of love.
Oh, well now,
When I walk down the street,
All the girls that I meet
Say: "he's a gangster of love"

(Yeah!)

I robbed a local beauty contest,
for their first place winner,
they found her with me out in Hollywood,
eating a big steak dinner.
They tried to get her to go back,
to pick up her prize.
She stood up and told them:
"You just don't realize, that he's a gangster of love"

And in the morning,
gangster of love.
(Uuh yeah, now!)
When I walk in to a bar,
girls from... from near and far,
say: "he's a gangster of love".

(Alright!)

I jump on my white horse Cadillac,
I ride across the border line,
I rope 65 girls,
I kiss them all the same time,
I take 25 or 30,
I put 'em all on a freight,
A million dollar reward for me,
In each and every state,
Sheriff say "Is you "Guitar" Watson?"
In a very deep voice
And I say "yes sir brother sheriff, and that's your wife on the back of my horse"

Cause I'm a gangster of love
I'm a gangster of love

(Yeah!)

When I walk down the street,
All the girls that I meet
Say: "he's a gangster of love"

T-BONE WALKER, Imperial Recordings 1950-54

Aaron Thibeault Walker 'T-BONE WALKER'
Linden, Texas, 1910
Los Angeles, California, 1975

Pionero de la guitarra eléctrica. El primer solista eléctrico de blues.
Una figura fundamental en la evolución del blues hacia el rock and roll. Chuck Berry o BB King quedaron enganchados a las escalas y acordes de jazz blues del texano.
Fundador del blues de Texas en los años 30.
El origen del paso del pato.



Complete Capitol Black and White Recordings
3 Cds.
Años 40.




The Complete 1950-1954 Imperial Recordings
52 temas.




Gibson ES-250
The ES-250 first appeared in the 1940 Gibson AA catalog with the slogan: "Gibson has created the best electric guitar possible to make." This top-of-the-line instrument was an upgraded version of the popular ES-150. It had significant refinements which distinguished it from the earlier mid-range model. These included a larger body, a more deluxe fingerboard, headstock, tuners and tailpiece, and a bar pickup with individual mini-blades acting as separate polepieces for each string--for "maximum tonal reproduction."





Gibson ES-5 Switchmaster
Desde 1949


The ES-5 combines the acclaimed features of the L-5 with the finest method of electronic guitar amplification. Three separately controlled, adjustable magnetic pickups reproduce the full, rich tones and harmonics to make the ES-5 truly ‘the instrument of a thousand voices.'" — Gibson catalog, circa 1951

The Gibson ES-5 Switchmaster was truly a guitar ahead of its time. First introduced in 1949, the ES-5 Switchmaster was the first ES guitar to be fitted with three pickups, and was initially intended solely for jazz players. It was dubbed the “supreme electronic version” of Gibson’s L-5 and offered a unique four-knob control circuitry that allowed players to manage pickup selection by adjusting the volume of each pickup, thus eliminating the pickup selector switch. Yet despite its pioneering circuitry and three-pickup layout, the ES-5 Switchmaster was not immediately embraced by jazz players while competing guitar manufacturers rushed to introduce their own similar models, including the Epiphone Zephyr Emperor of the early 1950s and the Fender Stratocaster in 1954.





Gibson Barney Kessell model





Fender Tweed 4x100 Bassman
The ’50s Fender Bassman was the pro bassist’s answer to amplifying a great new invention: the Fender Precision Bass® guitar. This powerful 50-watt rig could easily compete with the common instrumentation of the day: horns, piano, four-piece drum kit with calfskin heads, and maybe even an electric guitar through a nice, new 10-watt amp! By the ’60s and ’70s, the original all-tube “Tweed” 4x10 Bassman was popular with rock, country and blues guitarists as a reliably great-sounding and easy-to-use guitar amp. Even some emerging British amp designers of the day copied its circuitry for use in their most celebrated designs.

In the 1990s, Fender released an affordable reissue of the now-collectible ’59 Bassman amplifier to massive acclaim. Many guitarists, tired of experimenting with preamps, equalizers, and effects racks, rediscovered the simple pleasure of plugging into a Fender tube amp. The Bassman’s wide stage coverage, touch-sensitive dynamics and full-frequency “swirl” make it the perfect vehicle for building a great tone with almost any guitar or effect. The reissue Bassman continues to be a staple of the Fender guitar amp line to this day.




Gibson EH-150




Gibson EH-150
Galería de amplificadores anteriores a la Guerra Mundial.



Frases:

'When I heard T-Bone Walker play the electric guitar I had to have one. He had a touch that nobody has been able to duplicate."--B.B. King

"All the things people see me do on the stage I got from T-Bone Walker." --Chuck Berry

"When T-Bone Walker came, I was into that. That was the sound I was looking for." --Albert King

"No one else can touch T-Bone in the blues on guitar."--Jimmy Witherspoon

"He was the first man that made the electric guitar popular."--John Lee Hooker

FREEDIE KING, Let´s Hide Away and Dance Away 1961

TEXAS BLUES
Freddie King
'The Texas Cannonball' King.
Gilmer, Texas, 1934
Dallas, Texas, 1976





Let´s Hide Away and Dance Away
1961

* Fred Jordan – guitar, rhythm guitar
* Freddie King – guitar, vocals
* Philip Paul – drums
* Gene Redd – saxophone
* Clifford Scott – saxophone
* Sonny Thompson – piano
* William "Bill" Willis – bass guitar


Compositor de instrumentales de blues y genial guitarrista de Texas. ‘Hide Away’ es un tema esencial en la historia del rock and roll.



Similares: Eddie Taylor, Jimmy Rogers, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Eric Clapton, Lonnie Mack, Michale Bloomfield, Buddy Guy, Jeff Beck.







Gibson ES-335

La guitarra Gibson ES-335 Dot Reissue es una gran guitarra de semicaja, ideal tanto para sonidos tipo Jazzy hasta sonidos mas contundentes de R'n'R...

The ES-335 brought hollowbody tradition and solidbody performance together in 1958,
and it is still one of the all-time classic guitar designs.

JIMMIE VAUGHAN, fabuloso 2010

El hermano de SRV.
Fundador de los Fabolous Thunderbirds de Kim Wilson.
Dallas, Texas.
Strange Pleasure, 1994
Plays Blues, Ballads and Favorites, 2010
JIMMIE VAUGHAN