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Super Chikan
12+ albums
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Super Chikan (James Louis Johnson) is a Delta Blues musician from Clarksdale, Mississippi. He was born February 16, 1951 in Darling, Mississippi. His uncle, Big Jack Johnson is also a blues musician. The Blues Foundation announced the 2011 Blues Music Award nominations, and Super Chikan is once again nominated for BB King Entertainer of the Year and Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year. James "Super Chikan" Johnson is a Blues Music Award winning American blues musician, artist and guitar maker based in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He is the nephew of fellow blues musician Big Jack Johnson. James Louis Johnson was born in Darling, Mississippi on February 16, 1951. He spent his childhood moving from town to town in the Mississippi Delta and working on his family's farms. He was very fond of the chickens on the farm, and before he was old enough to work in the fields, he would walk around talking to them. This led his friends to give him the nickname "Chikan Boy". At an early age, Johnson got his first rudimentary musical instrument, a "diddley bow", which was simply a piece of wood with a piece of baling wire stretched from end to end. As he grew up, he came up with new ways to improve and vary the sounds he could make with it, and finally, in 1964, at the age of thirteen, he bought his first guitar, an acoustic model that had only two strings, from a Salvation Army store in Clarksdale. As an adult, “Super Chikan” began driving a truck for a living. During the long stret
