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BIG SUGAR is sweet on the
blues, but the Big Sugar fix
extends beyond the relatively
rigid confines. of standard
blues. .

The Big Sugar debut of 1992 on
A&M Records-distributed Hypnotic
Records is an opening salvo of sorts.
Guitarist Gordie Johnson hops all

’ over the map, alternating from blues
to rock to jazz. The playfulness pays
off, The debut was followed by Five
Hundred Pounds, released in 1993,
also on Hypnotic,

-Earlier this year the Toronto
band . signed: with Silvertone
Records for the assault upon the rest

*. of. the world. Big Sugar remains
‘with A&M in Canada.

Silvertone - label-mates . include -

. Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, John
* Mayall and The Stone Roses. ~

: Johnson's bandmates are Kelly
Hoppe on harmonica and sax (he
played with Johnson in a blues
band,. The Windsor Dukes); Garry

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BIG SUGAR returns to Vancouver April 8 at the Commodore for
a wild and wicked guitar-driven wingding.

Loew on bass (once with reggae
group Culture Shock); © Stich
Wynston on drums (ex-Shuffle
Demons).

. Big Sugar plays the Commodore
on Saturday, April 8.

Here are a few snippets from a
recent conversation with Johnson,
whose earlier musical years were
spent in Detroit:

Michael: Do you still play the
kind of jazz heard in part on your
debut?

Gordie: “Not so much any more.
On that first aloum we were still
doing a lot of gigs strictly as a jazz
trio doing standards in 30 or 40-seat
clubs. Over the years we've changed
drastically. It gets a little sweatier
and a little louder. Now it’s just
turned into a monster.”

Michael: The shift from jazz to

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blues and rock was inevitable?
Gordie: “I listen to T-Bone
Walker and Charlie Christian didn’t
sound that different. The songs that
Billie Holiday was singing or Joe
Turner was singing had a lot of the
same lyrics. It all sounds like differ-
ent garment cut from the same
cloth. As soon as I stopped differen-
tiating, it opened up — hey } can
play country and rockabilly and jazz
and blues and ska. It’s like, hey
man, there’s no difference.”
Michael: Are you hearing any
other lead guitarists out there
who impress you right now?
Gordie: “I don’t really like any
other guitar players. Isn't that terri-
ble? I like a lot of other music and

musicians, but as far as guitar play--

ers go, I don’t know. who I would
walk down the street to hear.”

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