Johnny "guitar" Watson

Johnny Guitar Watson - Ain't That A Bitch (1976) {1996 DJM Germany}  Music

Posted by TestTickles at June 9, 2021
Johnny Guitar Watson - Ain't That A Bitch (1976) {1996 DJM Germany}

Johnny Guitar Watson - Ain't That A Bitch (1976) {1996 DJM Germany}
EAC Rip | FLAC with Accurate Rip and log | scans | 226 mb
MP3 CBR 320kbps | RAR | 84 mb
Genre: R&B, soul, funk

Ain't That A Bitch is the 1976 album by vocalist/guitarist Johnny Guitar Watson. While this states it was pressed in West Germany, they had already become Germany by 1996, when this was mastered and released on compact disc by DJM.
Johnny "Guitar" Watson - The Best Of The Modern Years [Recorded 1955] (2005)

Johnny "Guitar" Watson - The Best Of The Modern Years [Recorded 1955] (2005)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 211 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 121 MB | Covers - 9 MB
Genre: Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Blue Note (7243 8 64714 2 0)

Although Johnny "Guitar" Watson had already recorded some sides for Federal (including the astonishing instrumental "Space Guitar"), the majority of those tunes featured the piano-playing Young John Watson. It was when he began recording for the Bihari Brothers' RPM subsidiary of Modern Records that he "became" Johnny "Guitar" Watson and his amazing legacy really began. The songs are solid West Coast blues, but they're brought to the next level by Watson's impassioned vocals and his incredible biting, staccato guitar solos. Watson's tenure at RPM was short-lived (as were most of his label relationships) and all these tracks were recorded in 1955, but they were wildly influential on a number of great guitarists and still hold their power 50 years down the road…

Johnny "Guitar" Watson - The Funk Anthology (2005)  Music

Posted by Rtax at July 5, 2023
Johnny "Guitar" Watson - The Funk Anthology (2005)

Johnny "Guitar" Watson - The Funk Anthology (2005)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1 GB | MP3 CBR 320kbps - 368 MB
2:34:25 | Soul, Blues, Funk | Label: Shout Factory

Shout! Factory's two-disc The Funk Anthology compiles the best of blues icon Johnny "Guitar" Watson's recordings for the DJM label from 1970 to 1981. Also included are three tracks off Watson's 1994 comeback album, Bow Wow.

Johnny "Guitar" Watson - Love Jones (1980) [1996, Remastered Reissue]  Music

Posted by BlondStyle at April 30, 2017
Johnny "Guitar" Watson - Love Jones (1980) [1996, Remastered Reissue]

Johnny "Guitar" Watson - Love Jones (1980) [1996, Remastered Reissue]
R&B, Soul/Funk, Soul-Blues | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (JPEG) | 44:24 Min | 299,01 Mb
Label: Sequel Records (UK) | Cat.# NEM CD 779 | Released: 1996-02-26 (1980)

From 1974 through 1980, Johnny "Guitar" Watson was on a tear no one, including George Clinton or Bootsy Collins, could equal. While the P-Funk machine began to run out of steam by 1978 - with the exception of the Brides of Funkenstein - Watson kept churning out the weird, kinky funk well into the era of Rick James. Love Jones, his last fine record for quite awhile, had all the trademarks in place: the choppy, heavily reverbed and wah-wahed guitar that had made Watson a blues sensation, the sci-fi keyboards, the handclap that Nile Rogers and Bernard Edwards ripped off for Chic, the expandable horn section that intertwined with the guitar riffs, and the punched up basic basslines that kept the funk a simple but ultimately moving thing.
Johnny "Guitar" Watson - A Proper Introduction To...Space Guitar (2006) {Proper}

Johnny "Guitar" Watson - A Proper Introduction To…Space Guitar (2006) {Proper}
EAC Rip | FLAC with CUE and LOG | scans | 261 mb
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | RAR | 99 mb
Genre: blues, blues rock, R&B, rock & roll

A Proper Introduction To Johnny "Guitar" Watson: Space Guitar is a 2006 compilation CD by Johnny "Guitar" Watson. This was released by the Proper label.
Johnny Guitar Watson - Funk Beyond The Call Of Duty (1977) {Sequel Recods}

Johnny Guitar Watson - Funk Beyond The Call Of Duty (1977) {Sequel Recods}
EAC 0.99pb5 | FLAC tracks level 5 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 600dpi | 227MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 97MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Funk, Soul

It all kinda came together on this 1977 LP: the ferocious funk Johnny had gotten into plus the blistering blues chops he'd always had. Includes Johnny's R&B hit Love That Will Not Die.

Johnny Guitar Watson - Giant (1978) {Sequel Recods}  Music

Posted by tiburon at May 11, 2020
Johnny Guitar Watson - Giant (1978) {Sequel Recods}

Johnny Guitar Watson - Giant (1978) {Sequel Recods}
EAC 0.99pb5 | FLAC tracks level 5 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 600dpi | 233MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 78MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Funk, Soul

Johnny's smokin' R&B sound continued to funkify (and dip into those Chic-like disco jams) on this 1978 LP. His new version of Gangster of Love went R&B Top 40; here's the complete release plus the unissued bonus cuts Base Station One and Do Me Bad So Good !
Johnny "Guitar" Watson - Untouchable! The Classic 1959-1966 Recordings (2007) {Ace Records CDCHD 1180}

Johnny "Guitar" Watson - Untouchable! The Classic 1959-1966 Recordings (2007) {Ace Records CDCHD 1180}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 235 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 158 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 24 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1959-66, 2007 Ace Records | CDCHD 1180
Rhythm & Blues / Blues / Electric Blues / Early R&B

Veteran photographer Brian Smith has good reason to remember the night of 3 April 1965 that R&B legend Johnny “Guitar”’ Watson played Manchester’s Twisted Wheel club, with sidekick- Larry Williams, “It was the first time I took out my wife [39 years married, last June] - though I still stuck to the job in hand and buggered off to the ‘Wheel All-Nighter’ after I had put her on the bus home. I got a few decent black and whites on at Twisted Wheel, and then a couple at the Princess Club, same week: on stage, and some posed too.”

Johnny Guitar Watson - A Real Mother For Ya (1977)  Music

Posted by tiburon at May 11, 2020
Johnny Guitar Watson - A Real Mother For Ya (1977)

Johnny Guitar Watson - A Real Mother For Ya (1977)
X Lossless Decoder | FLAC tracks | Cue+Log+M3U | Scans 200dpi | 276MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 98MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Funk, Soul

The disco period in Johnny "Guitar" Watson's catalog was spotty at best. You I first heard Johnny while stationed in Australia, of all places. Luckily, we had a D.J. who was really up on his music - especially Funk and Soul. As soon as I heard Mr. Watson coming from the speakers, I just HAD to know who was making that driving, funky sound. I had to wait for the next supply ship to make it to our "out-in-the-bush-on-the-edge-of-the-world" Naval base (about two months) before I got my own copy of this album, but it was worth the wait. Between Rick James, Parliament, and Johnny "Guitar" Watson, it is a toss-up as to who is the funkiest. But, while the music is great, it is only half of the goods. Johnny's lyrics are the other half, and they are witty, funny, sometimes a social commentary (even then they are still funny and witty).
Johnny 'Guitar' Watson - At Uncle Po's Carnegie Hall, Hamburg 1976 (2017)

Johnny 'Guitar' Watson - At Uncle Po's Carnegie Hall, Hamburg 1976 (2017)
Blues, Jazz, Funk, Soul | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 00:56:22 | 132 MB
Label: Jazzline Records | Release Year: 2017

"Reinvention" could just as easily have been Johnny "Guitar" Watson's middle name. The multi-talented performer parlayed his stunning guitar skills into a vaunted reputation as one of the hottest blues axemen on the West Coast during the 1950s. But that admirable trait wasn't paying the bills as the 1970s rolled in. So he totally changed his image to that of a pimp-styled funkster, enjoying more popularity than ever before for his down-and-dirty R&B smashes "A Real Mother for Ya" and "Superman Lover."