SUPER CHIKAN – Inställt

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The Blues started out in over a hundred years ago as a rural music, and many of the originators of Blues music wrote songs with agricultural themes, with work songs, or ballads about crops or pests or the weather, and about their own dogs and mules. Old country harp players might imitate farmyard animals in their wailing cries, barks and moans, but a more recent Blues player has gone the whole nine yards and called himself after a domesticated ‘critter’. It would be hard to find a man with deeper roots in the Delta than Super Chikan.

James Johnson was born in Darling MS in 1951, the nephew of Big Jack Johnson, the hill-country Blues guitarist whose intense, archaic, one-chord juke-joint boogies spoke to those origins of the Blues. James moved around the Delta working on relatives’ farms as a kid, and he liked feeding the chickens, imitating and ‘talking to’ them, leading his friends to call him ‘Chikan Boy’. He learned to play a diddley-bow, and when he was 13, James bought a beat-up second-hand guitar from a Salvation Army store in Clarksdale, but he was not looking for a career in music. He worked a variety of jobs as a young man, and while employed as a truck driver, he would make up his own songs to fill the lonely hours. His buddies persuaded him to record some demo records and he tried playing with some musician friends, but he preferred the freedom and spontaneity of being a solo artist. James adopted the ‘Super Chikan’ tag when he finally started performing, and his songs usually included some crowing and scratching on his guitar.

MR BO & THE VOODOOERS
Mr Bo och hans band backar upp artisten Super Chikan.
Bandets medlemmar är:
Mr Bo -sång&gitarr
Bo Hansson -hammond
Lars Mellqvist -bas
Roger Mörck -trummor

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