Louise Johnson

Louise Johnson traveled with Charley Patton, Kid Home, and Willie Dark brown in the Mississippi Delta to Grafton, WI, to take part in a famed nation blues recording program for Paramount Information held on, may 28, 1930. On that time, Johnson trim her just known monitors, four bits of barrelhouse piano blues, like the brazen and lusty “Over the Wall structure.” Clarence Lofton provides claimed to end up being the piano participant on these monitors, while Son Home (who offered spoken interjections for Johnson’s recordings, even though some say it had been actually Willie Brownish who do the speaking) offers taken care of that Johnson do her personal playing on all tracks, and it appears most likely that she do. In an additional little bit of blues cleaning soap opera, Johnson apparently started the trip to Grafton as Patton’s sweetheart, only to go back to Mississippi because the sweetheart of Son Home, a switch of occasions that Patton converted into the music “Joe Kirby Blues” (Johnson resided within the Joe Kirby plantation north of Robinsonville, MS, at that time). Johnson was an attractive and fiery vocalist and an adept pianist, and something wishes she might have recorded a lot more than four tracks, but her efficiency on that day time in Wisconsin provides a minimum of a glance of her design.