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JOHNNIE JOHNSON & THE KENTUCKY HEADHUNTERS THAT'LL WORK Elektra Nonesuch

The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | February 10, 1994 | Copyright

Eyelids might flutter at the thought of joining longtime Chuck Berry pianist Johnnie Johnson with primal country-rockers the Kentucky Headhunters, but the pairing works. Johnson met the Headhunters backstage at the Grammy awards two years ago. They struck up an immediate friendship and are on common, swing-boogie ground on this first album together. Johnson's previous disc featured Keith Richards and Eric Clapton, but it felt like too much of a celebrity guilt trip, as millionaire disciples tried to aid a founding father…

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