Lonnie Johnson
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About
Alfonzo "Lonnie" Johnson (February 8, 1894 – June 6, 1970) was a pioneering blues and jazz singer/guitarist born in New Orleans, Louisiana. There is some dispute over the year of his birth, but 1894 is what appears on his passport. Lonnie Johnson's early recordings are the first guitar recordings that display a single-note soloing style with use of string bending and vibrato. While it cannot be proven that this contains the influence of earlier players who did not record, it is the origin of Blues and Rock solo guitar.
Top Tracks
Too Late to Cry
Lonnie Johnson: The Cee Cee RiderBlue Ghost Blues (Original)
Sounds of Music pres. Django Reinhardt & Lonnie Johnson, Vol. 2Jet Black Blues (Remastered)
Jazz - The Essential Collection, Vol. 1Some Day Baby
Lonnie Johnson Vol. 3 (1944-1947)Another Night To Cry (Remastered 1992)
Another Night To Cry (Remastered 1992)Got the Blues for the Westend
This Is the Blues, Vol. 3 (Recordings of 1937 + 1938)Savoy Blues (Remastered 2025)
Blues & Ballads (Remastered 2025)Summertime (Remastered 1991)
Losing Game (Remastered 1991)Another Night To Cry
Chicago BluesHaunted House (Remastered 2025)
Blues & Ballads (Remastered 2025)
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Discography
Blues Masters, Volume 4
Album2012Johnson Junction
Album2011Complete 1937 to June 1947 Recordings in Chronological Order, Volume 3: 14 December 1944 to 2 June 1947
Album2009Complete Recorded Works 1937 to June 1947 in Chronological Order, Volume 2: 22 May 1940 to 13 February 1942
Album2009A Life In Music - Selected Sides 1925-1953
Album2009The Encyclopedia Of Jazz. Classic Jazz. Volume 060
Album2009Complete Recorded Works 1937 to June 1947 in Chronological Order, Volume 1: 8 November 1937 to 22 May 1940
Album2009Blues & Rhythm Series: The Chronological Lonnie Johnson 1947-1948
Album2008Blues & Rhythm Series: The Chronological Lonnie Johnson 1948-1949
Album2007Complete Recorded Works 1925-1932 in Chronological Order, Volume 1: 4 November 1925 to 13 August 1926
Album2007
