Straight out of Chicago

Rockin' Johnny & House Band | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 21, 1998)
• Original Release Date: March 24, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Delmark
• ASIN: B000006AH9
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #446,238 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. House Band Blues

2. Undercover Lover

3. Got My Eyes On You

4. Confusion Blues

5. If You Got Money

6. Sweet Thing

7. Stranger Blues

8. Cut You A Loose

9. Stompin' At The Fishmarket

10. My Woman Is Gone

11. Tend To Your Business

12. Sugar Mama

13. I Wanna Boogie

14. Tribute To Fast Fingers

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid, hard-driving, traditional Chicago Blues., June 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Straight out of Chicago (Audio CD)

This CD features great postwar Blues guitar work from Rockin' Johnny, a young man who has spent most of his 20's slinging his Rickenbacker in juke joints around Chicago. This is 180 degrees away from the Stevie Ray Vaughn rocked-out pseudo-Blues. There is no Jimi Hendrix influence here. Johnny's guitar is clean, thoughtful, & melodic. He really makes that Rickenbacker talk. The three guest vocalists (Robert Plunkett, Tail Dragger & Sam Lay) are all west-side veterans who add a lot of flavor to this fantastic disc. Rockin' Johnny is also great to witness live.

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent classic-sounding Chicago blues, May 7, 2008

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Otis Spain "It's blues time!" (Spain) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Straight out of Chicago (Audio CD)

I must confess that at first I don't gave too much hope to this young man with the vintage Rickenbacker on his debut album. Well, I was wrong!
Rockin' Johnny is not the best blues singer in the world, alright, but what he does here with his guitar and band (plus some superb guests too) is nothing short of 1st-class good old vintage Chicago blues. 1st-class. I'd rate the slow one "Sweet Thing", sung by the late drummer Robert Plunkett, as one of the very best (if not the best) blues tracks of the 1990's. Down to the very ground and far below!