Artist: Junior Watson
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
Long Overdue
Year:
Tracks: 17
If I had a Genie
Year:
Tracks: 14
Despite playing the role of perrenial sideman, often in fine bands that left field much to be coveted in the visibleness department, Mike "Junior" Watson was, and is, one of the well-nigh influential megrims guitarists of his generation. In fact, undermentioned Robben Ford's defection into fusion, Watson was rivaled only by Hollywood Fats as martin Luther King Jr. of the alfred Hawthorne in California and only by Jimmie Vaughan anywhere else. While he and Vaughan have radically different approaches, Watson's Hollywood Fats', as does his ability to blast on the face of it every traditional electric blues elan. But whereas Fats was a sea captain of mimckry, Watson has a spontaneous, original bent grass laced with his oddball sense of humor. After starting out with harper Gary Smith in northern California in the early '70s, he teamed with Rod Piazza's Mighty Flyers (née Flying Sauce Band) for 11 age, where he was instrumental in injecting the Chicago-styled blues band (and countless others in its wake) with ample doses of sweep, culling licks from guitarists Bill Jennings, Tiny Grimes, and Billy Butler. Along the style he gigged with Charlie Musselwhite, Jimmy Rogers, Luther Tucker and others, finally connexion the '80s edition of Canned Heat, with whom he continued to tour until the late '90s.
