Johnny Twist Blues Museum
Hello, to all Blues Lovers,
Potential Blues Lovers, Friends and
Admirers of the Blues.
Stay cool with the Blues and Please,
wear your masks and keep safe
distancing, so we can defeat
COVID-19
virus and be Happy, Again!!!!
The Johnny Twist Historial Blues
Museum is also letting you know that
the
Museum will be back open on
May 1, 2021, Saturday for the
Public/Tourists sight-seeing
experience with the Johnny Twist
Historical Mississippi/Chicago
Blues Museum.
And while we are
putting up new Blues Artists pictures,
objects, and processing deeper
Historical Blues information to keep
your best interest for our
future exhibits, whereas,
We look forward to seeing you!
By the way, the Johnny Twist
Historical Blues Museum have been
given a 4.3 stars for Performance with
Google that we are happy about and
appreciate our tourists and lovers of
the
Blues' concern and support.
And, we thank you for your donations.
And, hope you continue to donate and
believe in our agenda
to build and project the best
Historical Blues Museum for
Adults and Children.
Your donations go to the
Johnny Twist Blues Museum's
GoFundMe Agenda, in order for,
Johnny Twist's Historical Blues
Museum to continue to functional and
at least show and explain the deep
Fame and
Mysteries of Master Guitarist,
Johnny Twist's long experiences in the
Mississippi Delta Blues amongst
thousands of Blues Artists in the
U.S. and the International Realm.
Welcome to the Johnny Twist
Blues Museum's Site and $100,000
GoFundMe Goal asking for your
generous help to expand Johnny
Twist's
4.3 Stars Status and to let you know:
Johnny Twist's Mission and Vision is
to teach Afro-centrically correct
Delta Blues from a
Mississippi/Chicago,
Memphis and St. Louis, MO
Rocka Boogie Blues expanding Music
evolving platform, and to educate and
bring re-enlightment within Blues
Skills,
Trade and Crafts of Delta Blues Music
geniusy of high energy projection to
the
Blues Lovers and Fans
Local, National, and International.
The Legendary Rocka Boogie Blues
Guitar Emperor and Living Legend,
whereas, Johnny Twist, is the Curator
and
Blues Folk teller of many Famous
Blues
stories of these Blues Stars/Artists,
in which, Johnny Twist is their
contemporary and was/is the teacher of
the Delta Blues and
Original Contemporist to artists like:
Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf,
John Lee Hooker, also Johnny Twist
played base guitar for years with the
Legendary Slide Master Guitarist
Robert NightHawk/Robert Lee
McCoy/
Robert Lee McCollum of
the Mississippi Delta. Plus,
Johnny Twist, played alongside
Robert Nighthawk's first female
drummer, Little Miss Early B,
which completes Robert Nighthawk's
Original/Trio Blues Band of notoriety.
Plus, Johnny Twist, in relation to his
Blues Traveling Adventuorous
Experiences within and
throughout 40 states and
in many Southern States and all the
Cotton Fields put Johnny Twist
light years ahead mastering the
his Rocka Boogie Blues of the future.
Furthermore, Johnny Twist would like
to tell you that
Sonny Boy Williamson ll
aka Rice Miller was an artist, who
played live shows and was a great
friend of Robert Nighthawk and
Johnny Twist, who at that time,
Johnny Twist was a base
guitar player for Robert Nighthawk,
and also where they played for
Station KFFA
on second floor, in Helena, Arkansas,
with the Host Blues Disjockey,
James "Peck" Curtis, who went back
to
Powell, Mississippi, in his later days.
Long before the Mississippi and
Arkansas bridge was built,
Robert Nighthawk and Johnny Twist
back then, were
traveling across by ferry boat, plus
they
traveled across from Mississippi to
Helena, Arkansas with car on the
ferry boat.
Furthermore, with facts and truths,
Folk Blues Guitarist Lightnin' Hopkins
of Dallas, Texas and Bluesman,
Johnny Twist played together at the
Famous Persian Hotel Lounge in
Chicago
located at 64th and Cottage Grove
where Ahmad Jamal and others
performed their great acts on the
2nd Floor in the Persian Lounge,
where
Ahmad Jamal, a popular organist, who
played 1 of his most admiring tunes,
titled, Poinciana, a popular wedding
tune that was/is loved throughout the Black
Communities.
The Johnny Twist Blues Museum's and
his Own/Famous Rocka Boogie Blues
mission and vision is to teach the
phenomena of the Mississippi Delta
Blues afrocentrically corrrect to our
Blues Fans and Potential Blues Lovers
and Tourists, and to re-educate our
Worldwide Blues phenomena from
an Original Blues Musical and
Historical Afrocentric Worlds
point of view and frame of reference,
in order to, seriously project and
reiterate the Truth and Facts of our
Mississippi Delta Blues history right
here in the Urban Blues Mecca,
Chicago.
Johnny Twist's goal is for you to know
about a Great and Proud Original
Black Peoples and our Delta Blues
Heritage.
The Johnny Twist Blues Museum are
applauding and thanking all other
different nationality of people for
your help and support, and we
appreciate your interest and
sincere concern.
The Original Proud Black people of the
Mississippi Delta region created and
expanded the Delta Blues genre
locally, nationally and internationally,
and we are sincerely grateful for
your help and support for the Blues
in general, and especially for the
Rocka Boogie Blues that's. pioneering
into the future with Love and
Overstanding and Great Sounds of the
Blues.
First, we are bringing you an update on
the progress of the Johnny Twist
Mississippi/Chicago Blues Museum
and
the Legendary Blues Emperor and
advanced slide guitar master,
Johnny Twist himself, and we
Welcome
and Thank You for your support,
concern and assisting him and his
Rocka Boogie Blues Ventures
connected to Twist's Rocka Boogie
Blues Dynasty that is propelling
from the past, present and onto the
Future Blues Music Realm here in
Chicago, the Urban Mecca of the
Blues.
The Johnny Twist Blues Museum
wants to reiterate his thanks for
your support as we are grateful
and appreciate your help for our
growth through touristing and
generous donations, plus other
divisions of help.
We are happy to inform you that the
Johnny Twist Historial Blues Museum is now
rated at 4.3 stars by Google Business
Account which is up from the previous
rating of 1 1/2 stars.
We, Again, Thank You for your
generous help and concern for our
goal to raise $100,000, in order to,
expand and enhance the
Johnny Twist Blues Museum Agenda
and
making it a 7.2 star+ historical blues
museum, and, in order for,
Johnny Twist's Mississippi/Chicago
Blues Museum to prevail and become
the
Super Pride of Chicago for all
Blues Lovers, and for all ethnic
people and tourists to come and enjoy
the site, scenery, and knowledge of the
Blues of which you can learn and be
educated and trained in the Blues
Technology in the Johnny Twist (J.T.'s)
Serious Spiritial Vibrations of
Rocka Boogie Blues Academy.
In the following update on the
Legendary Blues Guitarist,
Johnny Twist and his
Johnny Twist Blues Museum, at this
time, are providing quotes from
several
publications of which the following
enthused writers are expressing their
experiences when they toured the
museum and are
speaking out, in writing, about the
Johnny Twist Blues Museum
on the scene here in the
Chicago area:
The first of the quotes and opinions
of the Johnny Twist Blues Museum
comes from Chicago University's
South Side Weekly newspaper by
writer, Sharon Lurye dated
October 9, 2013 where she says,
"On a storefront in Woodlawn there's
a faded, almost illegible green sign
that reads 'Old Dusty Records.'
Inside that store, there are probably
records. Somewhere. But when you
'Knock on the door, and the owner
let's
you in, what you'll step into is not so
much a record store as another
dimension. There are racks of CDs
and videotapes, toy cars, children's
shows, necklaces, African Art,
Afrocentric books, a rice cooker, body
oils and soap, an iron, and an organ
piano and there are rows and rows of
framed black and white photographs
depicting blues legends like
Ma Rainey, Ike and Tina Turner,
Elmore James, and Hound Dog Taylor.
Visitors are greeted by a colorful sign:
"Hotep, Welcome to JTs old dusty,
Mississippi/Chicago Museum and
Culture Center of Afro-centric/
heritage and rhythmic urban, delta,
rocka boogie blues."
Plus Sharon said, "...What is
undoubtedly true is that, right under
your nose, is an overlooked storefront
at 64th and Cottage, there stands
an utterly unique testament to one
of the greatest eras of music in
American History."
The 2nd Quote is regarding the
Johnny Twist Blues Museum out of
the Cook County Chronicle
newspaper
dated Wednesday, September 5, 2018
written by Igor Studenkov for
Chronicle Media, and he says,
"The word "museum" doesn't quite do
justice to what's inside. The interiors
are arranged more akin to an antique
store or a used book store, with
objects
filling over a single surface. Gig
posters,
newspaper and magazine clippings and
photographs line the walls. The store
has artifacts such as photos of 1920s
blues musicians performing at
Maxwell Street Market:
autographed photos of famous blues
musicians, entire issues of newspapers
and magazines and vintage guitars and
expensive records. Some of the items
are unexpected, such as a model train
model of the 43rd Street commercial
district, complete with the model 'L'
train above the building. Rows upon
rows of CDs and cassette tapes are
stacked alongside the artifacts. There
is an entire section filled with books by
African-American authors, and
records
line the walls and are stacked in
boxes."
Igor also quoted,
"Blues guitarist Johnny Twist is Happy
to show visitors around his museum
and share hiis decades of knowledge..."
The next quote is out of
Black Pages International serving the
Chicago area written by its publisher,
Eugene Dillanado dated Chicago, 2019
saying,
"...Johnny Twist.
The legendary guitarist and
Rocka Boogie Blues artist's Blues
Museum located in the Woodlawn
area
of Chicago has been classified with
four
and a half stars credit to enlighten and
educate you on our great blues
heritage,
and the stories of great blues artists
that
must be told with truth and facts
curated
by the guitar blues legend himself,
Johnny Twist.
You will have the chance to view the
Great Muddy Water's Blues Room and
his phenomenal recording,
"Got My Mojo Working" on Chess
Records along with pictorials and the
many stories about him.
Sunny Boy Williams, the 2nd, when he
was blowing his great blues harmonica
licks on King Biscuit Radio Time down
in Helena, Arkansas, is in the museum
along with John Lee Hooker of
Clarksdale, Mississippi 61 Highway
have
pictorials and stories in the museum.
Aretha Franklin Soul-Jazz-Blues Room is in the museum as well as the
tantalizing
Tina Turner of Nutbush, Tennessee
showing her fantastic legs for you!
Johnny Twist and Ike Turner were
close friends and great guitar players
in
St. Louis.
The.Johnny Twist Museum features
the great Bob Marley,
Jamaican Raggae
musician including his bass man,
Bunny Wailee, and their fellow
Rastafari pioneer, Peter Tosh...
Black Pages International salutes
Johnny Twist for building a
Dynasty 2019 - 2032..."
In a quote dated May 17, 2018
within Chicago Tribune's Redeye
newspaper issue, writer and
scholar, Eve Ewing says, and
we quote:
"...I was in the back seat kind of
looking out of Nate's car, and then
I was like, Stop the car!
Turn Around! "I mean Nate and I
have the kind of friendship where
he's like, fine, I don't need any
additional information." I was like
"Go back, go back!" I saw the sign
that says,
Chicago Delta Blues Museum
and when you see it, you'll see why I
was
like, " you need to stop the car."
We went inside and had this amazing
conversation with the owner,
Johnny Twist, who was actually a blues
musician from back in the day and
who's
taken it upon himself to construct his
museum in this store front on the
South Side.
Somebody needs to interview him
about all the photos and do some
sort of history project, because we
need to keep that.
I think a lot of the knowledge that
Johnny twist has is the culture of the
city, and this is our history, it's Chicago
history, it's Black History, it's
American history. The blues is such an
important part of our heritage and our
legacy and this is a person that is a
living
kind of folk historian who is actually
telling the stories of the things that he
experienced in his real life, and is
keeping the stories and the legacies
of those people that are gone from us.
I got love for Johnny Twist. That place
is so amazing to me. I totally
discovered
it by happenstance."
A Special Edition by the
University of Chicago's South Side
Weekly newspaper dated
September 18, 2019
written by Erica Mosley states in the
following quote:
"BEST PLACE TO GET THE
WAA WAA WAA BLUES
Johnny Twist Blues Museum
One of the best places to spend $5 in
Woodlawn has to be at
our own museum
of all things related to
the black musical
genre, the blues. But at the
Johnny Twist Blues Museum, your $5
will get you much more than a
chronology of the blues and an
introduction to blues greats around
the world. You'll spend most of your
time learning about
a living blues legend
whom you may not have heard much
about before: Mr. Johnny Twist. Yes,
Johnny Twist is the owner of the
Johnny Twist Blues Museum, and he
boasts of jazz enthusiasts visiting his
museum from cities around the world.
Twist's contribution to music is his
brand of high-energy blues,
Rocka Boogie Blues. Twist who hails
from Mississippi, has visited more
than
forty states during his career,
originally
playing the piano before moving on to
the bass guitar and ultimately the
electric guitar. His contemporaries,
whom you'll see in many of the photos
that he's collected throughout the
years,
include Johnny Nighthawk , Ike Turner,
Koko Taylor, Chuck Berry, and
Chicago's
own Buddy Guy. Those photos, along
with newspaper clippings, concert
pluggers (show flyers) , and tickets,
cover the museum from floor to
ceiling and along the decorative
displays
and walls. The museum even includes a
recording studio and a slew of musical
DVDs, CDs, and books for sale.
Johnny Twist plans to release a double
CD with his own cuts by the end of the
year, so get ready to secure your own
copy from Woodlawn's local
(yet renowned) blues royalty.
(Erica Mosley)..."
The double CD that Erica Mosley, just
spoke of, by Johnny Twist, is on hold
because of the COVID-19
virus pandemic, will be on
schedule
to be released later on this year 2021,
or early next spring, 2022.
Johnny Twist Blues Museum is located in
the Woodlawn area at
6455 S. Cottage Grove Ave.
Open Monday-Saturday,
11a.m - 6:00 p.m. =
Spring and Summer Season Hours
Admission is $5 per person for the
Rocka Boogie Blues Tour that includes the
explaining of the
Mississippi Standard Acoustic Blues,
and Delta Blues including Chicago
Urban
Blues, plus the genre of high energy
Blues and extra high energy Blues
within the Rocka Boogie Blues Realm.
The above facts and truth will be told
to
you about the origin and progress of
the
Blues.
We Welcome You!
For Tourists Booking and
Deep Blues Information:
Call: 1 (312) [phone redacted]
Plus, find Master Guitarist,
Johnny Twist,
on:
Google
YOU TUBE
and
facebook.com/
johnnytwistbluesmuseum
AND TO DONATE TO THE
Johnny Twist Blues Museum's
GoFundMe Agenda:
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sincere
donations, in order, for Johnny Twist
to continue and complete the
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and growth of his
Johnny Twist Historical Blues
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And next, you will see the picture of
the
Legendary Blues Emperor Master
Advanced Slide Guitarist,
Johnny Twist, playing his
Classical and Original 1958 Flying V
guitar over and in back of his head,
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Sincerely Appreciate Your Concern
and
Support!!!!
And, we remind you, again,
to wear your masks and stay
safe distancing to defeat the
COVID-19
virus pandemic, of which,
Johnny Twist expects you to wear,
so we can continue to be happy
growing by learning to overstand
the Blues!!!!
