Tommy Johnson - Cool Drink of Water Blues

Tommy Johnson
Song Name: Cool Drink of Water Blues
By: Tommy Johnson
Song Local Name: Cool Drink of Water Blues
Album: Tommy Johnson Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order: 1928-1929
Link to buy: Document Records
Genre: folk music of the United States , American folk music , delta blues , early blues
Date Added: 27 Oct 2016
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Next to Son House and Charley Patton, no one was more important to the development of pre-Robert Johnson Delta blues than Tommy Johnson. Armed with a powerful voice that could go from a growl to an eerie falsetto range and a guitar style that had all of the early figures and licks of the Delta style clearly delineated, Johnson only recorded for two years -- from 1928 to 1930 -- but left behind a body of work that's hard to ignore. (http://www.allmusic.com/)

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