While hardly well known (except among history-minded music fanatics), Lonnie Johnson remains an important figure in the development of the guitar in jazz, blues, and popular music. In the 1920s and `30s, Johnson played with Louis Armstrong ...
Blues Anatomy/Various Artists/Jef Lee Johnson/Lonnie Johnson: Eddie Davis, Eddie Davis (vocals); Rick Nollet (acoustic guitar); Mike Suchodolski (piano, organ); Rick Prince (bass instrument, electric bass); Lenny Gordon (drums); Jay Davidso...
Personnel: Lonnie Johnson; Hal Singer, Hot Lips Page, Tom Archia.Liner Note Author: Victor Pearlin.With an elegant guitar style that helped bridge country blues and the more modern urban R&B sound while at the same time keeping a dial...
Solo performer: Lonnie Johnson (vocals, guitar).Includes liner notes by Sam Charters.Personnel: Lonnie Johnson (vocals, guitar).Liner Note Author: Samuel Charters.Recording information: 1967.Editor: Leslie Spitz-Edson.Phot...
Contains 18 tracks.Personnel: Lonnie Johnson (guitar, violin, keyboards).Recording information: 11/04/1925-02/21/1928.Fourteen cuts from the late '20s to early '30s, with Eddie Lang, Victoria Spivey, Texas Alexander, Mooch Richards...
Personnel includes: Lonnie Johnson (guitar); Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Eddie Lang.Digitally remastered by John R.T. Davies.Personnel: Lonnie Johnson (vocals, guitar, electric guitar); Lonnie Johnson; Hoagy Carmichael (vocals, p...
Full title: Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Vol. 2 (1937-47).Personnel includes: Lonnie Johnson (vocals, guitar); Blind John Davis, Lil Armstrong (piano).Recorded in Chicago, Illinois between 1940 & 1942.Includes lin...
Personnel includes: Lonnie Johnson (vocals, guitar); Hoagie Carmichael (vocals, percussion); Victoria Spivey (vocals); Eddie Lang (guitar); Ransom Knowling (bass); Alfred Elkins.
Recorded in New York, New York between 1927 & 1944.
One of the towering figures of the blues, Lonnie Johnson is rarely put in the category of the other blues greats -- men with household names such as Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker -- and it's hard to understand why. A mesmerizing guitaris...
Audio Remasterer: Peter Rynston.Lonnie Johnson was best known for his tonally beautiful guitar playing, but he was also a fine singer and songwriter, and pretty adept on violin, piano, banjo, mandolin, harmonium, and bass as well. Equall...
Personnel includes: Lonnie Johnson (vocals, guitar); Victoria Spivey (vocals, piano); Hoagy Carmichael, Spencer Williams, Jimmy Foster (vocals); Blind Willie Dunn [Eddie Lang] (guitar); King Oliver (cornet); J.C. Johnson (piano).Recorded...
Recorded in April, 1960.When producer Chris Albertson brought Lonnie Johnson and guitarist Elmer Snowden into a studio for this album on April 9, 1960, both musicians hadn't recorded in a number of years. Indeed, Snowden hadn't seen the ...
Personnel includes: Lonnie Johnson (vocals, guitar); Roosevelt Sykes, Josh Altheimer (piano).Recorded in New York, New York and Chicago, Illinois between 1937 and 1940.Includes liner notes by Chris Smith.Personnel: Lonnie Johnson (...
Solo performer: Lonnie Johnson (vocals, guitar).Reissue producer: Jim Eigo.Recorded in Queens, New York in 1965. Includes liner notes by Bernie Strassberg.Digitally remastered by Malcolm Addey.This one of a kind CD, a never-befo...
Personnel includes: Lonnie Johnson, Blind John Davis, Ransom Knowing.Among the most obscure recordings from Lonnie Johnson's career, the 23 selections on this CD were cut after the recording strike of 1942-1944 ended and just prior to th...
Personnel includes: Lonnie Johnson (vocals, guitar); Helen Humes (vocals).Lonnie Johnson came into his own during the period of time covered by this CD. A brilliant blues-oriented guitarist, Johnson is heard on such instrumentals as "To ...
Personnel: Lonnie Johnson (electric guitar, vocals), Elmer Snowden (guitar) and Wendell Marshall (bass).Recorded in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on April 5, 1960. Originally released on Bluesville (1011). Includes original liner notes by...