Johnny Shines
- MatchJohnny Shines
- 100%Tampa Red
- 86%Bukka White
- 81%Jimmy Rogers
- 74%Mississippi Fred McDowell
- 74%Roosevelt Sykes
- 69%Sleepy John Estes
- 68%Champion Jack Dupree
- 68%Eddie Boyd
- 67%Big Joe Williams
- 67%Lightnin' Hopkins
Biography
26 April 1915, Frayser, Tennessee, USA, d. 20 April 1992, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Johnny Shines was taught to play the guitar by his mother and sometimes worked the streets of Memphis for tips with a group of other youths. In 1932 he set up as a sharecropper in Hughes, Arkansas, but still worked part-time as a musician. During the 30s he hoboed around the work-camp and juke-joint circuit in the company of such men as Robert Johnson, with whom he appeared on a radio show in 1937. His ramblings... Read more
Genres
Tags
blues
delta blues
guitar
blues rock
folk
blues
delta blues
guitar
blues rock
folk
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