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Big Jack Johnson - Catfish Blues (1992)

Johnson was born in Lambert, Mississippi, in 1940, one of 18 children in his family. His father, Ellis Johnson, was a sharecropper, and his family picked cotton, but he was also a working musician, leading a band at local functions and playing fiddle and mandolin in country and blues styles. Big Jack got his start in music playing with his father. In his teens, he began playing the electric guitar, attracted to the urban sound of B.B. King.

Johnson was nicknamed "The Oil Man", because of his day job as a truck driver for Shell Oil.

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