Don Johnson

A gospel singer in one from the Sanctified sects, Johnson was from Columbus, Mississippi, and was last heard about in Arkansas in 1964. Appreciated by Lonnie McIntorsh as ‘the singingest girl I’ve ever known’, Johnson possessed an enormous contralto voice, using a rasping vibrato as wide being a cathedral door. She was at her greatest when associated with McIntorsh’s metronomic electric guitar, or that of Can Shade; her have Sanctified Singers had been endearingly ragged, and she needed to order these to ‘Arrive on’ or ‘Obtain the defeat’. The actual fact that recordings including such advertisement libs had been released speaks because of their fresh authenticity. Two monitors with the Memphis Sanctified Performers (which Shade played electric guitar) beautifully comparison her rough design with Melinda Taylor’s sweeter tone of voice.