Label: Arhoolie Records.
Release Date: January 20, 1998.
Recording Time: 58 minutes.
Release Info: Studio Recording, ARHCD 9007.
Recording Date: August 13, 1970 - January 9, 1971.
Recording Location: Chicago, IL.
Styles: Country Blues.
Eighteen songs recorded by Lewis in 1970 and 1971. If Lewis were one of the few practitioners of the Southern country slide blues guitar, this would be an important document. But the fact is that because there are so many similar performers in the style who recorded more prolifically and with greater imagination, it's just a solid journeyman entry in the field. Lewis does have an affable storytelling manner to his songwriting, and gets in some nifty laidback slide licks; a couple of the more ambitious tunes were inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King. ~ Richie Unterberger
Credits: Leon Kelert - engineer; Johnie Lewis - composer, guitar, harmonica, kazoo, primary artist, vocals; Charlie Musselwhite - guest artist, harmonica; John Steiner - engineer; Chris Strachwitz - engineer, liner notes, photography, producer.
Tracks: 1) Hobo Blues; 2) He Met Me on a Thursday Morning; 3) Uncle Sam Ain't No Woman; 4) Can't Hardly Get Along; 5) My Little Gal; 6) North Carolina Blues; 7) I'm Gonna Quit My Baby; 8) Baby, Listen to Me Howl; 9) You Gonna Miss Me (About Dr. Martin Luther King); 10) Mistake in Life (Handsome Stranger); 11) I Got to Climb a High Mountain; 12) My Mother Often Told Me; 13) Lewis' Little Girl Done Stole a Black Cat Bone; 14) The Jumpin' Jive; 15) Poor Boy; 16) Guitar Blues (Hound Dogs on My Track); 17) Comb My Baby's Hair; 18) Oh Lord, Tell Me Right from Wrong.