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CELEBRATING BLUES MASTER JIMMY JOHNSON’S 92nd anniversary…! LIVE STREAMING with his band SAT NOV 28TH 2pm Chicago time! Directly from Delmark Records!

A Brief History Of Jimmy Johnson… On November 25th, 1928 in Holly Spring, Mississippi, Verlie and Sam Thompson proudly introduced me into this world, their first boy child, James Thompson. I was the first boy of 10 children, with only one older sibling, my cherished sister Annie Mae, who would watch over me as I…

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