Lonnie Johnson

Lonnie Johnson

Lonnie Johnson

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Top Songs

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C.C. Rider
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St. Louis Blues
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Guitar Blues [Album Version]
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Backwater Blues
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I'm so Tired of Living All Alone

Albums

  • Blue Blood Blues

    Nov 2022 • 10 songs

  • This Is the Blues, Vol. 3

    Aug 2020 • 4 songs

  • Blue Ghost Blues

    Nov 2018 • 9 songs

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Lonnie Johnson

Biography

Blues guitar simply would not have developed in the manner that it did if not for Lonnie Johnson. He was there to help define the instrument's future within the genre and the genre's future itself at the very beginning, his melodic conception so far advanced from most of his prewar peers as to inhabit a plane all his own. For more than 40 years, Johnson played blues, jazz, and ballads his way; he was a true blues originator whose influence hung heavy on a host of subsequent blues immortals. Johnson's extreme versatility doubtless stemmed in great part from growing up in the m...
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