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Johnny Guitar Watson
Space Guitar
Genres: Blues, Pop

Track Listings (18) - Disc #1
1. Highway 60
2. No I Can?t
3. Motorhead Baby
4. I Got Eyes
5. Walkin? To My Baby
6. What?s Goin? On
7. Thinking
8. Half Pint Of Whiskey
9. Space Guitar
10. Gettin? Drunk
11. You Can?t Take It With You
12. Cuttin? In
13. Broke And Lonely
14. I Just Wants Me Some Love
15. Sweet Lovin? Mama
16. In The Evenin?
17. Gangster Of Love
18. Space Guitar (Unissued alternate version)

CD Details

All Artists: Johnny Guitar Watson
Title: Space Guitar
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Varese Fontana
Release Date: 10/12/2004
Album Type: Original recording remastered
Genres: Blues, Pop
Styles: Regional Blues, Texas Blues, West Coast Blues, Electric Blues, Modern Blues
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 030206661125

Synopsis

Album Description

Includes Watson?s best mid-?50s recordings for Federal Records and early ?60s sides for King. Also features one of the biggest hits of his career, the top 5 hit "Cuttin? In" and the stratospheric instrumental "Space Guitar." As a bonus there is an earlier second take of "Space Guitar" that?s similar in structure but utterly different improvisationally.

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CD Reviews

Early Guitar Watson Showcase

Terence Allen | Atlanta, GA USA | 02/27/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Johnny "Guitar" Watson is best known for his hit song "Gangster of Love," but when most of these recording were made, he was just a young blues singer/guitarist who was trying to find his way.

This nice collections shows off the young Watson, who was even billed as Young John Watson, show off his singing and playing skills on such cuts as "Half Pint Of Whiskey," " Cuttin' In," "Half Pint Of Whiskey," "Gettin' Drunk," and two versions of his classic "Space Guitar."

Watson was a very talented singer and player who in his later years embraced an eccentric funk star, but these songs show his blues beginnings, and reveal a talent that still isn't as appreciated as he should be.

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