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John "Johnny" Holiday is an American musician, writer, and actor. As Kid Memphis, he is the lead musician of the Kid Memphis and The Mojo Hand Band. He played Carl Perkins in the Johnny Cash bio movie Walk the Line starring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon. [1]
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John Holiday was born in Memphis, Tennessee, US.
His first appearance on stage was at the Overton Park Shell. As a rock and blues musician, Johnny made his mark on Beale Street in Memphis at age 15. His first record made was at Sun Studio. When Beale Street opened as a tourist attraction in the 1980s, a very young Johnny along with his band Kid Memphis & The Mojo Hand Band started performing regularly at the New Daisy Theater. Shortly after that, Johnny played alongside musicians such as, B.B. King, Albert King, Albert Collins, Gatemouth Brown, Anson Funderburgh, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Cash McCall, Jeff Healey and more. Johnny was reportedly influenced[ by whom? ] by some of the early Texas recording artists.
He has released a record with Little Boys Blue on Vizztone Records, operated by Bob Margolin. In 2020, Holiday released a record via Retrofonic, recorded at American Sound Studio.
Holiday became an actor in 2005.
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Hans Olson, is an American musician and songwriter. He is a singer and plays an amplified acoustic guitar and a harmonica in a neck rack. He is known as one of the best "harp-in-a-rack" players in the world. Olson helped to establish and organize the Phoenix Blues Society (1988), the Arizona Green Party (1991), the Arizona Blues Hall of Fame (1995), the Arizona Music Heritage Foundation and the Arizona Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame (2002). In 1996, Olson was inducted into the Arizona Blues Hall of Fame. Both Phoenix Magazine and Phoenix New Times named Olson as one of the most influential musicians in Arizona.
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