Top Songs
- Devil Got My Woman · 1935
- Johnny Temple's Believe My Sins Have Found Me Out · 1999
- Essential Blues Friends · 1935
- Whorehouse Blues · 2005
- Those Dirty Blues Volume 2 (Digitally Remastered) · 1935
- Those Dirty Blues, Vol. 1 (Remastered) · 2009
- Johnny Temple's Believe My Sins Have Found Me Out · 1999
- Johnny Temple's Believe My Sins Have Found Me Out · 1999
- Johnny Temple's Believe My Sins Have Found Me Out · 1999
- Essential Blues Masters · 1999
- When the Sun Goes Down Series, Vol. 3: That's Chicago's South Side · 1941
- Elevator Papa, Switchboard Mama (Risque Songs 1920's - 1950's) · 2010
- Essential Blues Masters · 1999
Singles & EPs
About Johnny Temple
b. 18 October 1906, Canton, Mississippi, USA, d. 22 November 1968, Jackson, Mississippi, USA. Temple learned guitar from his stepfather Slim Duckett, a well-known performer from the Jackson area who later recorded for OKeh Records in 1930. Temple could also play the mandolin and often worked at house parties and juke-joints. In 1932 he moved to Chicago where he worked as a general all-round musician and recorded blues for both Decca and Vocalion Records. He worked with the famous McCoy brothers and recorded as part of the knockabout jazz group the Harlem Hamfats. He continued to work in Chicago until well into the post-war period, appearing with artists such as Billy Boy Arnold and Walter Horton, as well as forming his own group, the Rolling Four. In the mid-60s he returned to Jackson where, after a period of ill health, he died from cancer at the age of 62.
- HOMETOWN
- Canton, MS, United States
- BORN
- 18 October 1906
- GENRE
- Blues