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Lil Johnson

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Wikimp3 information about the music of Lil Johnson. On our website we have 11 albums and 70 collections of artist Lil Johnson. You can find useful information and download songs of this artist. We also know that Lil Johnson represents Blues genres.

Biography

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Lil Johnson made use of one thing that always sells in music, everytime: sex. She eventually toned down her lyrics somewhat, since record company censorship was beginning to plague her as well as shifting public taste. Nonetheless, she recorded quite a few sides between the late '20s, when she first appeared in the recording studios, and 1937, when she performed on her last known songs. Like many pianists and singers from this period, her recordings fell into a state of copyright limbo in which just about anyone capable of sequencing a series of tracks was able to release her songs on anthologies relating to the blues and boogie-woogie piano. There was a particular interest in Johnson's case among producers of collections such as Copulatin' Blues, a title that apparently seems appealing enough to be used for several different collections by unrelated labels. Song titles such as "You'll Never Miss Your Jelly Till Your Jelly Roller Is Gone" reveal how appropriate her material is to such collections, although she never really made up her mind which direction she wanted to go into with the food-equals-sex metaphors; at one point switching from jelly rolls to peanuts — "Get 'Em From the Peanut Man," the listener is advised — and eventually settling on something that is actually healthy, cabbage. "Anybody Want to Buy My Cabbage?" Johnson asks on this side, one of several of her records in which the solid feel of the rhythm and the peskiness of the blues improvisations make up for relatively uninspired lyrics.

Collections

Title: Blues Sisters

Genre: Blues

Title: State Street Jive

Genre: Blues

Title: Dirty Sexy Blues

Genre: Blues

Title: Whorehouse Blues

Genre: Blues

Title: Squat It

Genre: Blues

Title: Piano Blues

Genre: Blues

Title: Play It for Me

Genre: Blues

Title: Detroit Rocks

Genre: Blues

Featuring albums

Title: Rude Dudes

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Blues

Title: The Essential (CD2)

Artist: Tampa Red

Genre: Blues

Title: Sex & Blues

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Blues

Genres