Johnnie Bassett | A Woman's Got Ways

#Blues / #BluesRock / #RelaxingBlues / #slowblues Album: The Gentleman is Back Buy: https://amzn.to/3fPqShH _________________________ Edward's Jazz & Blues Channel: http://bit.ly/2vlXAFk _____ 1 Hour Whiskey Blues Compilations: http://bit.ly/2Sv5tQw _____ Keep Walking Playlist: http://bit.ly/31E7G0h1233 _____ Ladies Got The Blues Playlist: http://bit.ly/2Sil0EF _____ Recent Uploads: http://bit.ly/2Hh4kH6 __________________________ Lyrics: Hi fellows I got a message for you Listen up Think you know your woman? Yah, You heard nothing yet Listen to this Oh.. she got some ways Check it up Woman’s got ways To make a man lose his mind So when you ain’t thinking straight And you’re walking half blind While she leaves you around In a haze and a daze It’s a crime and a pity But a woman’s got ways yeah You know, a woman’s got ways Woman’s got charms And a sweet soothing voice But when she gets a hooks in you Boy, you ain’t got much choice She’ll take your time and your money And leave you half crazed But you will love every minute Cause a woman’s got ways... yeah You know a woman’s got ways When God made woman He makes fools out of men When you make one mistake buddy You’ll soon make it again.. yeah Woman’s got something That every man craves And it gives her the power To make us all slaves That ‘s the rule of the game, son You lose if you can’t play You can’t beat the system, buddy, Because a woman’s got ways... yeah You know a woman’s got ways She got ways She got ways woman’s got ways... yeah Hmmm, you know she got ways Believe me she got ways.. yeah Heeehe... Woman’s got ways... yeah The video is with promotional purpose. All visual and audio elements belong to their respective owners. For copyright issues, please contact me. __________________________ Born in Florida, where his father was a bootlegger during prohibition, Johnnie was surrounded by music. His mother, sisters and aunts took him to church and surrounded him with gospel spirituals. But in the summer he'd head out to his grandmother's famous fish fries, where the likes of Tampa Red, Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup, Lonnie Johnson and others would set up and play while folks ate and danced. “They were my dad's friends,” Bassett recalls. “He would meet them on the road. I didn't know they were gonna be big names 'til I got to be a teenager and we moved to Michigan. I'd hear them on records when I was 13, 14, 15 years old and go, ‘Hey, these are the same people I heard play when I was just a little kid.’ And dad said, ‘Yeah, that's them.’” An older brother bought Johnnie an electric guitar and small amplifier from a pawn shop, and he never looked back. He met Uncle Jessie White at a record store on Detroit's Hastings Street and started playing with him. He formed the Bluenotes with keyboardist Joe Weaver, which led to gigs with John Lee Hooker, Big Joe Turner, Ruth Brown and Eddie Burns and a tenure as the house band for Detroit's Fortune Records label. Bassett and company also spent a bit of time at Chess Records in Chicago and played on the first sessions by The Miracles, which resulted in the single “Got A Job.” A stint in the army sent Bassett to Seattle during the late ‘50s, where he remained for a bit and played around the local scene — including jamming with a “talented” young Jimi Hendrix. By the end of the ‘60s he was back in Detroit, working a series of day jobs — from dispatching cabs to the requisite auto factory position — but never putting down the guitar as he continued to lead his band, the Blues Insurgents. He recorded a series of excellent albums such as I Gave My Life To The Blues, Bassett Hound, Cadillac Blues (nominated for five W.C. Handy Awards) and Party My Blues Away, but his last label, Cannonball Records, went out of business. In recent years, however, Bassett and his supporters have had but one goal; “We really wanted him to get a new label deal,” says Codish. That transpired when Mack Avenue Records owner Gretchen Carhartt caught Johnnie in live performance during a four-night stand at the Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe. She was particularly taken by his soulful rendition of “Georgia.” “On the break I was talking to her, and she looked at me and said, ‘Do you have a label?’” Bassett remembers. “I said, ‘No,’ and she said, ‘Well, you do now,’ and that was that.” “I just love to play,” Johnnie says. “People come out and enjoy it and the guys I'm playing with are enjoying it and having fun with it. As long as that's happening, I'll keep on doing it.”