Luther “Snake Boy” Johnson

The confusing plethora of artists working beneath the name of Luther (nickname here) Johnson can keep even people that have a decent understanding of blues in a significant state of confusion. However in this biographical entrance, we concern ourselves with the life span and situations of Luther “Georgia Guy/Snake Guy” Johnson who, to create matters a lot more complicated, also proved helpful and recorded beneath the brands Small Luther and Luther Ruler. (As it happens his true name wasn’t also Luther, but Lucius.) Upon his armed forces discharge, he selected guitar as an associate from the Milwaukee Supreme Angels gospel group, functioning the local cathedral circuit. However the blues insect strike and he shortly had his very own small blues trio jointly, ultimately settling in Chicago by the first ’60s. He performed for some time with Elmore Adam and was a normal fixture in the Muddy Waters music group with the middle-’60s. He documented only a small amount Luther for Chess in the middle-’60s (“The Twirl”) and by 1970 was relocated to Boston, Massachusetts, functioning as a single artist. Another five years discovered him functioning steadily on the faculty and blues celebration circuit before cancers overtook him on March 18, 1976, at only 41 years.