⬇️ LONNIE JOHNSON ⬇️
(Alonso "Lonnie" Johnson)
DISCOGRAPHY 1937-2021 (62LP/CD)
BIOGRAPHY
Alonso "Lonnie" Johnson (February 8, 1899 – June 16, 1970) was an
American blues and jazz singer/guitarist and songwriter who pioneered
the role of jazz guitar and is recognized as the first to play
single-string guitar solos.
Johnson was not only one of the few black blues musicians invited to be 'guest featured' on a number of jazz recording sessions, he was also one of the only classic 1920's blues artists to have a revived a high-charting career after WWII.
(Alonso "Lonnie" Johnson)
DISCOGRAPHY 1937-2021 (62LP/CD)
Johnson was not only one of the few black blues musicians invited to be 'guest featured' on a number of jazz recording sessions, he was also one of the only classic 1920's blues artists to have a revived a high-charting career after WWII.
Johnson was born in Orleans Parish, New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in
a family of musicians. He studied violin, piano and guitar as a child, and
learned to play various other instruments including the mandolin, but
concentrated on the guitar throughout his professional career. "There was
music all around us," he recalled, "and in my family you'd better play
something, even if you just banged on a tin can."
By his late teens, he played guitar and violin in his father's family
band at banquets and weddings, alongside his brother James "Steady Roll"
Johnson. He also worked with jazz trumpeter Punch Miller in the city's
Storyville district...... (Wikipedia)
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