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2. Tommy Johnson (musician) - Wikipedia

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   In the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), a character named Tommy Johnson, played by Chris Thomas King, describes selling his soul to the devil to play guitar.The Tommy Johnson character in the film plays a number of songs originally recorded by the blues musician Skip James and accompanies the Soggy Bottom Boys, a band consisting of the film's three main protagonists plus Johnson, on ...

3. Canned Heat - Wikipedia

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   The group has been noted for its efforts to promote interest in blues music and its original artists. It was launched by two blues enthusiasts Alan Wilson and Bob Hite, who took the name from Tommy Johnson's 1928 "Canned Heat Blues", a song about an alcoholic who had desperately turned to drinking Sterno, generically

4. On the Road Again (Canned Heat song) - Wikipedia

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   "On the Road Again" is based on early blues songs by Tommy Johnson and Floyd Jones. [5] The lyrics to Johnson's "Big Road Blues" (1928) include: "Well I ain't goin' down that big road by myself ... If I don't carry you gonna carry somebody else". In "Dark Road" (1951), Jones "reshaped Tommy Johnson's verses into an eerie evocation of the Delta ...

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6. Thomas Johnson - Wikipedia

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   Tom Johnson (footballer, born 1911) (1911–1983), English football defender for Sheffield United and Lincoln City; Tom Johnson (footballer, born 1926) (1926–2018), English football left half or forward for Darlington and Bradford Park Avenue; Tommy Johnson (footballer, born 1901) (1901–1973), English football forward for Manchester City ...

7. David "Honeyboy" Edwards - Wikipedia

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   Edwards was present on the night Johnson drank the poisoned whiskey that killed him, [4] and his story has become the definitive version of Johnson's demise. Edwards also knew and played with other leading bluesmen in the Mississippi Delta, including Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, and Johnny Shines. He described the itinerant bluesman's life: