1 	Miss Maebelle 	
2 	Do The Romp 	
3 	Coal Black Mattie 	
4 	Catfish Blues / I Feel Good Little Girl 	
5 	Work Me Baby 	
6 	Come On In 	
7 	That's No Way To Get Along 	
8 	The Shaggy Hound 	
9 	Chicken And Gravy

Tony Ray Adams - Cuica, Drums, Whistle (Instrument)
Cedric Burnside - Drums,
Jessie Mae Hemphill - Tambourine, Vocals
Richard Johnston - Drums, Guitars, Bass, Harp, Resonator, Vocals, Washboard
Robert Nighthawk - Harmonica
Mark Simpson - Guitar
Robert "Nighthawk" Tooms - Harmonica 

Richard Johnston was born in Houston Texas. He studied Sociology and Philosophy at San Diego State University. Left for Japan, studied at Gifu University for a year and stayed an additional four years as a burgeoning musician. When he was invited to perform at the first Blues Stock in Memphis in 1997, he returned home. He was scheduled to perform with someone he had not heard of at the time: Junior Kimbrough. Junior no-showed due to health reasons. Out of curiosity, Richard found his way to a little out-of-the-way joint in Chulahoma where he heard Junior's band The Soul Blues Boys, minus Junior, playing the music that would forever change his life: north Mississippi hill country blues -- a rockin' and very hypnotic style of the blues. The world took notice of the music of Northern Mississippi when music archeologist Robert Palmer released his Deep Blues documentary in the early '90s to great critical acclaim. This led to recording contracts for R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, and Frank Frost, who soon released records on the newly-founded Fat Possum Records. A few years later Junior Kimbrough opened a juke joint called Junior's Place in Chulahoma, MS. Junior, for the most part, was not physically able to tour. To hear Junior play you had to go to Mississippi. Rock bands such as The Rolling Stones, Sonic Youth, and U2 all made pilgrimages. When Junior Kimbrough died in 1998, Richard Johnston (who by then was an adopted son of the Hemphill/Kimbrough clan) approached Junior's band The Soul Blues Boys (basically consisting of Kimbrough's kids and nephews) about continuing the Sunday dances. And so it happened that a white guitarist and a black rhythm section rocked the joint until it burned to the ground in 2000. Johnston went back to Beale Street with nothing but an acoustic guitar and a heart full of hill country blues. A year later, Richard Johnston won the 2001 International Blues Talent competition award, the last solo act to beat all bands (now the competition is separated into solo/band). He also won the 2001 Albert King award as most promising blues guitarist. Ever since then, you can hear him play in front of the New Daisy Theatre on Beale Street in Memphis working as a street musician and one-man band -- as Richard is playing guitar, bass and drums simultaneously. His debut album, Foot Hill Stomp, originally released in 2002, was recorded with the help of Jesse Mae Hemphill, Cedric Burnside, Mark Simpson, and Robert "Nighthawk" Tooms. Loaded with standards from the north Mississippi hill country, the locomotive power of Foot Hill Stomp has the raw rhythmic drive of a primal entity that will infuse itself into the dark, primitive recesses of your primordial senses. Or: That guy sure can play! ---forcedexposure.com

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01 intro 
02 Jailhouse 
03 banter 
04 Get Back To Your Used To Be 
05 Greet Your Days Of Rage And Ruin 
06 banter 
07 Shake 'Em On Down 
08 banter 
09 Come Early Morning 
10 banter 
11 Do The Rump 
12 banter 
13 You'll Find Your Mistake 
14 banter 
15 ? 
16 banter 
17 Black Mattie 
18 banter 
19 Chicken And Gravy 
20 banter 
21 Miss Maebelle 
22 banter 
23 War Pigs 
24 outro

Richard Johnston 
07/18/2008 
Deep Blues Festival 
Washington County Fairgrounds 
Lake Elmo, MN

Day one of three of the 2nd annual Deep Blues Festival. 14th performer of 14 for the day.

The largest outsider and alternative blues event in the world, the Deep Blues Festival was created to celebrate and bring awareness to these unique bands. A mix of many styles and genres, all these bands are performing their idea of the blues or music influenced by the blues. Purists may not agree. We aren't out to argue with anyone, just trying to spread the word about music we enjoy. We call it the Deep Blues. ---deepbluesfestival.com

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