Johnny Dyer

b. 1938, Rolling Fork, Mississippi, USA. Dyer used the harmonica when he was seven so when an adolescent sat along with Smokey Wilson in an area club. He transferred to LA in January 1958 and produced his own music group, the Blue Records, backing visitors such as for example J.B. Hutto, Jimmy Reed and Jimmy Rogers. He afterwards produced a duo with George Smith, in those days still working only a small amount Walter Jnr. He documented several singles for Shakey Jake’s Great Period label before reducing an record, Johnny Dyer AS WELL AS THE LA Dukes, for Murray Brothers in 1983. A number of the monitors were later released in Japan by Mina Information. In 1991, William Clarke included him on CRISIS, an anthology of modern LA bluesmen. Shortly afterwards, he produced the Houserockers with guitarist Rick Homlstrom, who acquired previously documented with Clarke, Billy Boy Arnold, Fishing rod Piazza and Smokey Wilson. PAY ATTENTION were able to combine Holstrom’s Pee Wee Crayton -inspired technique with Dyer’s even more down-home harmonica playing, including a highly effective edition of Small Walter’s ‘Blue Midnight’. Tremble It! added pianist Tom Mahon on a couple of original music that encapsulate the cross types west coast-Chicago design.