King Johnson
Friday, May 4, Continental Club, 3700 Main Street
Santa Claus brought King Johnson's CD Luck So Strange to Toni Price, and for the Atlanta-based bluesy funksters, life imitated art. Price was flattened - so much so that she immediately mastered three of the band's songs for her live shows. At Price's invitation, King Johnson will be doing the two-city Continental Club circuit, following its benefactor to the stage both nights. Strange luck, indeed. Not that the band is particularly needful of fortune. It takes about four bars of "Mountain," with its chiming guitar atop snapping horns, to figure out that these guys are as inspired as anybody. Their creative springs are as sweet and clear as mid-'60s James Brown, early Allman Brothers, and the Meters, all flowing out of a straight blues bedrock; not for nothing are these guys called "the funkiest white boys on earth."
—John Nova Lomax
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