Early life[edit]
Johnson was born near Terry, Mississippi, and in about 1910 moved to Crystal Springs, where he lived for most of his life.[3] He learned to play the guitar and, by 1914, was supplementing his income by playing at local parties with his brothers Major and LeDell. In 1916 Johnson married and moved to Webb Jennings' plantation near Drew, Mississippi, close to the Dockery Plantation.[4] There he met other musicians, including Charlie Patton and Willie Brown.[5]
Career[edit]
By 1920, Johnson was an itinerant musician based in Crystal Springs but traveling widely around the South, sometimes accompanied by Papa Charlie McCoy.[6] In 1928, he made his first recordings, with McCoy, for Victor Records,[3] including "Canned Heat Blues", in which he sang of drinking methanol from the cooking fuel Sterno.[3] The song features the refrain "canned heat, mama, sure, Lord, killing me." The blues group Canned Heat took their name from this song.[3] Johnson's "Big Road Blues" inspired Canned Heat's song "On the Road Again". A significantly different version of the song appears as "Canned Heat" on the album Big Road Blues by K. C. Douglas.
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