A working bluesman since his teenage years in the early 1950s, Johnny "Guitar" Watson scored numerous chart successes in the 1970s with a unique guitar-based sound that mixed the feel and instrumental technique of the blues with the bass-heavy sound of funk. Admired by guitarists specializing in various styles of music, and recruited as a sideman by the avant-garde rock musician Frank Zappa, Watson also excelled as a vocalist. His singing was by turns sexy, humorous, and political; his guitar playing exploited the full range of the instrument's powers. He was also a prolific songwriter. When Watson died in 1996 at the age of 61, he was receiving the most modern form of musical homage: rappers and hip- hop musicians quoting or "sampling" his recordings.
TRACKLIST
Hot Little Mama
I Love To Love You
Don't Touch Me
Too Tired
Those Lonely, Lonely Nights
Someone Cares For Me
Oh Baby
Give A Little
Three Hours Past Midnight
Ruben
Love Me, Baby
She Moves Me
Love Bandit (aka Gangster of Love)
Lonely Girl
Ain't Gonna Hush
Hot Little Mama No. 2
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