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Artist
Johnny Farmer
12+ albums
bluesfat possumelectronicmississippisexy
about
If you're lucky, you live in a town with four or five people that actually care about the quality of their work. Johnny Farmer is one of these. Johnny Farmer's hard life began on May 6, 1932, in Holly Ridge, a small community in the Delta, eight miles east of Leland, Mississippi. His earliest memory is of waking up at four to build a fire for the coffee his father and older brothers consumed before heading to the fields for the day. At twelve Johnny was strong enough to plow a mule with his elders and became one of the most disposable pieces in the sharecropping system. Johnny married in his early twenties. His new bride moved into the two-room shack where Johnny was born and lived with his family. Johnny worked the same fields, has never been farther from home than he could walk in a day, when there arose an opportunity to work on a road crew -- a definite improvement over sharecropping. Not long after landing his new job, Johnny's wife was killed in a bizarre accident. Johnny, like others listed on the payroll book as general labor, worked alongside dozers, graders, and excavators with a pick, shovel, or hoe. Whatever the driver missed with the box blade Johnny fixed with one of his tools. Not surprisingly, he knew how to operate a dozer, and understood precisely how the metal tracks responded to breaking, before ever having the chance to drive one. One day Johnny got his chance, and the rest is history. He became one with the bulldozer, was hell with the dozer, and sat on
top songs
albums
Wrong Doers Respect Me
The Skeleton Key
Putumayo Presents: Blues Lounge
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Putumayo Presents Blues Lounge
Blues Lounge
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New Beats from the Delta
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The Future Blues Club Night
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The Future Blues Club Night - Part 2
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Rough Guide to Blues and Beyond
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The Skeleton Key (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Darker Blues
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Skeleton key soundtrack