{"id":1430,"date":"2016-06-07T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2018-12-22T08:23:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T13:23:17","slug":"captain-dont-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/captain-dont-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Don&#8217;t &#8216;Low that Here (Larry Johnson)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lb1QDTOHo6o\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After I discovered Larry Johnson\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/pick-poor-robin\/\"><em>Fast and Funky<\/em> LP<\/a>, I happened to be back at the Cambridge Public Library and came across a record that must have been there <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1431\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Larry-Hank-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"Larry &amp; Hank\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Larry-Hank.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Larry-Hank.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Larry-Hank.jpg?w=320&amp;ssl=1 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/anybody-going-san-antone\/\">my high school residency<\/a>, but which I\u2019d never noticed. It was on the Prestige label, and the artists were billed as Larry and Hank, and the Larry was Larry Johnson \u2013 so I instantly checked it out, brought it home, and listened.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t <em>Fast and Funky<\/em>, but I was prepared for that, because the notes to that album said Johnson had been playing for years without really finding his style, then broke his hand in an accident and had to relearn everything, at which point he decided to follow Gary Davis\u2019s advice and learn the \u201chard chords.\u201d Presumably the Larry and Hank record was from before the accident, and the playing was a lot simpler, and honestly I don\u2019t remember a great deal about it, though I taped it on cassette and listened to it quite a few times.<\/p>\n<p>The main thing I got from it was this song, which I\u2019ve never come across anywhere else. 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