Jimmy Johnson [US1]

Aliases: The Jimmy Johnson Band
The Jimmy Johnson Blues Band
Real name: James Earl Thompson
Born: November 25, 1928
Died: January 31, 2022
Country: United States
IPI: 00074080293 2 works
Affiliation: BMI
Comments: Blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
Family: Syl Johnson Brother

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Originals

		Title	Performer	Release date	Covered by
		Ain't No Way	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1998	Kirk Fletcher
		Ashes in My Ashtray	The Jimmy Johnson Band	1979	(2 artists)

Covers by Jimmy Johnson [US1]

	Title	Performer	Release date	Originally by
	Ain't That Just Like a Woman	The Jimmy Johnson Blues Band	1978	Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
	All Your Love	Jimmy Johnson and Luther Johnson Jr	1975	Magic Sam
	Ashes in My Ashtray	Jimmy & Syl Johnson	2001	The Jimmy Johnson Band
	As the Years Go Passing By	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1994	Fention Robinson
	Black Night	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1998	Charles Brown and His Band
	Blue Monday	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1998	James Davis
	Born Under a Bad Sign	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1993	Albert King
	Breaking Up Somebody's Home	The Jimmy Johnson Blues Band	1978	Ann Peebles
	Bring It on Home to Me	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1993	Charles Brown & Amos Milburn, Sam Cooke
	Chicken Heads	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1984	Bobby Rush
	Cold Cold Feeling	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1984	T-Bone Walker
	Crosscut Saw	Jimmy Johnson and Luther Johnson Jr	1975	Tommy McClennan REL, Tony Hollins REC
	Cut You Loose	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1998	Ricky Allen
	Driving Nails in My Coffin	The Jimmy Johnson Band	1979	Jerry Irby
	Drowning on Dry Land	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1993	Albert King
	End of the Rainbow	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1994	McKinley Mitchell
	Engine Number 9	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1994	Wilson Pickett
	I Believe My Time Ain't Long	Jimmy Johnson and Luther Johnson Jr	1975	Pinetop and Lindberg, Robert Johnson, Elmo James
	I Have the Same Old Blues	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1984	Little Milton
	In the Midnight Hour	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1994	Wilson Pickett
	Is It Because I'm Black	Jimmy & Syl Johnson	2001	Syl Johnson
	Little by Little	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1984	Junior Wells
	Look over Yonders Wall	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1978	James (Beale Street) Clark, Elmore James
	My Own Fault	Jimmy Johnson and Luther Johnson Jr	1975	Muddy Waters and His Guitar, B.B. King and His Orchestra
	Riding in the Moonlight	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	November 28, 2000	Howling Wolf
	Same Old Blues	Jimmy Johnson & Luther Johnson Jr.	September 4, 2001	Moloch
	Serves Me Right to Suffer (Memory Pain)	The Jimmy Johnson Blues Band	1978	Percy Mayfield
	So Many Roads	Jimmy Johnson and Luther Johnson Jr	1975	Otis Rush
	Something You Got	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1993	Chris Kenner
	Sweet Little Angel	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1978	Lucille Bogan, B.B. "Blues Boy" King and His Orchestra
i	Take Five	The Jimmy Johnson Band	1979	The Dave Brubeck Quartet
	That Will Never Do	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1994	Little Milton
	The Highway Is Like a Woman	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1994	Percy Mayfield
	The Sky Is Crying	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1993	Elmo James and His Broomdusters
	The Things That I Used to Do	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	November 28, 2000	Guitar Slim and His Band
	Tobacco Road	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1978	John D. Loudermilk
	You Don't Have to Go	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1993	Jimmy Reed and His Trio
	You Don't Know What Love Is	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1984	Fenton Robinson
	Your Turn to Cry	The Jimmy Johnson Blues Band	1978	James Davis

Songs written by Jimmy Johnson [US1]

Original songs

Title	Written by	Originally by	Original date	Covered by
Ain't No Way	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1998	Covered by Kirk Fletcher
Ashes in My Ashtray	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	The Jimmy Johnson Band	1979	Covered by (2 artists)

Releases

Albums

Title	Performer	Release date	Label
A Road May End Somewhere	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1998	Birds & Blues
"Heap See"	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1984	Blue Phoenix
I'm a Jockey	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1994	Birdology
Johnson's Whacks	The Jimmy Johnson Band	1979	Delmark
Livin' the Life	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1993	Black and Blue
Ma Bea's Rock	Jimmy Johnson and Luther Johnson Jr	1975	MCM
Ma Bea's Rock [Reissue]	Jimmy Johnson & Luther Johnson Jr.	September 4, 2001	Storyville [DK]
Pepper's Hangout	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	November 28, 2000	Delmark
Tobacco Road	Jimmy Johnson [US1]	1978	MCM
Two Johnsons Are Better Than One!	Jimmy & Syl Johnson	2001	Evangeline [GB]