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    Biography

    Blues guitar simply would not have developed in the manner that it did if not for the prolific brilliance of 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 pre-war peers as to inhabit a plane all his own. For more than 40 years, Johnson played blues, ...more
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    Sound Clips

  • Won't Don't Blues
  • Tin Can Alley Blues
  • South Bound Water
  • Why Women Go Wrong
  • She's Making Whoopee in Hell Tonight
  • Man Killing Broad
  • My Baby Is Gone
  • Beautiful But Dumb
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  • A LeisureSuit.net Review; Lonnie Johnson, the Unsung Blues Legend: The Living Room Tapes
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