New topic
Printable| Author | Message |
Johnny "Guitar" Watson ~ Telephone Bill You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
- E-mail - orgNote -  Report post to moderator |
Johnny used to boast that this was the first rap track ever put out. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Well it surely WAS one of the first, if not THE first.
I don't know when the song was recorded, but Johnny's album was released in 1980, and there were several rap records in 1979. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Yeah it was recorded in late 1979 but wasn't released until after '79 lol | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Criminally underrated artist and of my FAVE guitarists ever....
This song has been ruling my rotation lately...
The Funk Anthology is sheer heaven on eardrums. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Criminally underrated would be an understatement when it comes to someone like Johnny. Dude never really got his props either. He was a flashy guitarist and he also mastered the talk box later in his career. | |
| - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |