Johnny Adams
USA
Born: 05 January 1932
Died: 14 September 1998
Styles: Soul, R&B/Soul, Soul-Blues, Electric Blues, Urban Blues, New Orleans R&B, Early R&B, Retro-Soul, New Orleans Blues
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Renowned around his Crescent City home base as "the Tan Canary" for his extraordinary set of soulfully soaring pipes, veteran R&B vocalist Johnny Adams tackled an exceptionally wide variety of material for Rounder in his later years; elegantly rendered tribute albums to legendary songwriters Doc Pomus and Percy Mayfield preceded forays into mellow, jazzier pastures. But then, Adams was never particularly into the parade-beat grooves that traditionally define the New Orleans R&B sound, preferring to deliver sophisticated soul ballads draped in s...
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