BLUES, BLUES, BLUES: Johnny TUCKER

⬇️ JOHNNY TUCKER ⬇️

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BIOGRAPHY

Johnny Tucker is the tenth child born of nineteen siblings to a seasonal sharecropper and his wife. His interest in music began when he would sit on the porch and listen to his father play the guitar for his mother. Johnny started playing drums and was first influenced by Lowell Fulson’s record Black Knight.

He learned the music by listening and playing along with the songs. He listened to James Brown records and learned to play his tunes too. Johnny first came to Los Angeles in 1964, where he hooked up with Phillip Walker as a featured singer doing a James Brown act singing top ten hits of the times.

Later, he became a drummer with Walker’s band and began traveling the world for the next 34 years. Along the way, he played with other great artists such as Floyd Dixon, Robert Cray, Johnny Otis, The Five Royals, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Lowell Fulson and Johnny Copeland.

Johnny has traveled and performed extensively in the U.S., Canada, Japan and Europe. In 1967 Johnny met James "Broadway” Thomas while they were playing with the Johnny Otis band. In 1997 these two teamed up and put out an album titled Stranded..... (Wikipedia)

Stranded

(with James Thomas)