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Listening to music a few nights ago, a new Justin Johnson video popped up on the “Recommend” feed. After four or five seconds in-depth discussion, we* decided to use some of Justin Johnson’s funky blues guitar music for MOT.
I know that all our sports fans will either be singing along with Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” or singing the blues. Since it is difficult to do both at once, here are some hill country swamp blues (oxymoron, I know) for your morning viewing, here are some new blues from Justin.
In the quote at the top, Justin Johnson said he got his first jump start inspiration for the blues when he heard Lightning Hopkins perform “Last Night.” Going back to his original muse, here is Lightning Hopkins and the tune that started Justin on his way to find the blues.
On to Justin Johnson himself, this has to be one of the most haunting versions of “Summertime” I ever heard.
On to a bit of wood and weed for our fan club:
For our Louisiana contingent, here are a few “Gators in the Swamp.”
* sockpuppet and moi.
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