Johnny Heartsman

Johnny Heartsman
Born: Feb 9, 1937 in San Fernando, CA
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Died: Dec 27, 1996 in Sacramento, CA
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Soul-Blues, Funk
Biography: Shaven-headed Johnny Heartsman did so many musical things so well that he's impossible to pigeonhole. His low-moaning lead guitar work greatly distinguished a myriad of Bay Area blues recordings during the '50s and '60s, and still played his axe with delicious dexterity and dynamics into the '90s. But ...Read full biography
The Touch
Released: 1991
Label: Alligator Records
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Few electric bluesman have been more versatile than Johnny Heartsman, and that versatility is impossible miss on The Touch. Recorded when Heartsman was 54, this unpredictable CD finds the singer incorporating ...Read full review
Made in Germany
Released: 1995
Label: Inakustik
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It would be wrong to say that Johnny Heartsman died young, although he died at a relatively young age -- Heartsman was 59 when the blues world lost him on December 27, 1996. You can certainly call his ...Read full review
More Johnny Heartsman albums: Main Albums (5)
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