Johnny Woods

b. 1 November 1917, Looxahoma, Mississippi, USA, d. 1 Feb 1990, Olive Branch, Mississippi, USA. Like his sometime partner, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Woods had not been uncovered until he was in his fifties and it had been through McDowell that he previously his first opportunity to record, although that they had not really seen each other for eight years in those days. A self-taught harmonica-player, he created his technique, which relied upon rhythmic statistics, by adapting the task hollers he noticed in the areas where his family proved helpful. Due to that, Woods was at his greatest when performing single on ‘Therefore Many Frosty Mornings’ and ‘Heading Up The Nation’, or playing an average one-chord traditional Mississippi piece such as for example ‘Long-Haired Doney’ (also called ‘My Jack port Don’t REQUIRE NO Drinking water’), which he documented with both McDowell and R.L. Burnside.