Blues America 112 -Johnny Rawls

Published: Oct. 20, 2017, 3:42 p.m.

Johnny Rawls is a Southern Mississippi soul-blues legend who cut his teeth with ZZ Hill, and Joe Tex before becoming O.V. Wright’s band leader. After O.V.’s death he led Little Johnny Taylor’s band before launching a solo career and scoring several hit records, Red Cadillac and Lucy (Get Juicy). Rawls has been featured on many magazine covers and in 2009 was honored with a Blues Trail Marker next to Tyrone Davis and Little Milton, located at the original site of the Hi Hat Club in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He has been nominated for 14 Blues Music Awards.