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    Not to be confused with primal New Orleans bassist Bill Johnson (born circa 1872), Will Johnson was born in Lexington, KY, in 1905. Active in the music scene in and around Louisville, Johnson traveled to New York with the Dixie Ramblers near the end of 1926 and worked with a band led by drummer George Howe in 1927, the year he began a five-year stint with Luis Russell's Orchestra. From 1928 to ...more


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