King Orville's Bootleg Volume Two

by Orville Johnson

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1.	Blueprint for the Blues 03:51	info	buy track
2.	Everybody Wants to Laugh 05:04	info	buy track
3.	Girl of Seven 02:02	info	buy track
4.	Do You Call That a Buddy 04:31	info	buy track
5.	Do the Popeye 03:09	info	buy track
6.	Sittin' On Top of the World 03:30	info	buy track
7.	Crossing Number Nine 03:31	info	buy track
8.	I Only Exist 08:07	info	buy track
9.	Railroad Boy 04:27	info	buy track

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This is Volume Two of a collection of unreleased tracks, tracks from albums I have been on with various bands/groups that feature my singing/playing, and stuff from my archives. I'm trying to put everything I can up here on BandCamp so there's a place folks who are interested can find all my available recorded works.

Track 1 is an unreleased version of my song Blueprint for the Blues with Doug Bright at the piano.

Track 2 is an unreleased blues cut with some slide mandolin and washboard framing my vocal.

Tracks 3-6 are from two cassette releases (1988 and 1990) by legendary NW jug band Strangers with Candy. We played together for several years. Larry Van Over, jug and piano man, passed away a few years ago. Reggie Miles, washboard, guitar, and vocalist, is still playing, writing songs, and building weird gadgets. If you want to know more about him, go here...

reggiemiles.bandcamp.com

Track 7 is an unreleased version of a Norman Blake song.

Track 8 is an unreleased version of a Ralph Stanley song I re-cast as a blues number.

Track 9 was originally released on a dobro collection Resophonics Anonymous, now out of print.

The writer, musician, and engineering credits are all listed on the individual tracks. Click on each track to find them.

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released January 31, 2020

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Orville Johnson Seattle, Washington

Orville Johnson was raised in the Illinois heartland. He acquired his love of singing as a youth in the fundamentalist Pentecostal church he attended and, when he later began playing guitar and dobro, responded to the roots music that surrounded him by learning to play the blues, bluegrass, rockabilly, and country music that are all part of the mosaic that characterizes his own mongrel music. ... more

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