Robert A. Johnson

“Sunday Morning Like,” “Increase Difficulty,” and “I’ve Got a Twenty Area Home” are one of the titles within the wealthy tempo and blues catalogue this songwriter and performer is in charge of, alongside partner Sam Mosley. The group began doing work for the Malaco clothing within the ’70s, urged to create material that might be ideal for performers such as for example Bobby “Blue” Bland, Latimore, and Johnnie Taylor, amongst others. Growing curiosity about the artistry of songwriting groups behind the industrial smashes resulted in possibilities for Mosley and Robert A. Johnson to record independently, producing a couple of albums like the critically-lauded Juke Joint. Sadly, Johnson’s life finished before production covered through to this album, rendering it a Juke Joint that’s very much a memorial as a location to allow good times move. Johnson have been an essential area of the kind of metropolitan Southern soul audio connected with Malaco. The duo’s personal recordings featuring superb sidemen such as for example pianist Jimmy Johnson had been set alongside the wants of Z.Z. Hill, along with the unavoidable hyperlink with Bland. Lots of the second option artist’s sides through the ’80s feature a minumum of one tune compiled by this team.