LONNIE JOHNSON - BLUES & JAZZ GUITAR REALLY THE BEST FROM 1927 TO 1952

LONNIE JOHNSON - BLUES & JAZZ GUITAR
REALLY THE BEST FROM - 1927 TO 1952

Lonnie Johnson Can be considered the first true solo guitarist in the history of Negro American music, other instrumentalists, belonging both to the world of the Blues and to the Jazz, have also played a decisive role in the emancipation of the guitar, before the Second World War .Eddie Lang has established himself as an excellent guitarist, he has turned to posterity especially for his superb improvisations, In this Eddie Lang was, with Lonnie Johnson, the master of all the solo guitarists who will emerge from the thirties in then. Exerting a considerable influence on all guitar virtuosos. They belonged to the jazz world, like Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt, or to the Blues, like T. Bone Walker and B. B. King.

Alonzo Lonnie Johnson
B. February 8, 1899 -New Orleans, Louisiana
D. June 16, 1970 - Ontario, Canada

1. Blue Ghost Blues
2. I' m So Tired of Living All Alone
3. Sweet Woman You Can't Go Wrong

Lonnie Johnson (voc/gt)

4. Why Women Go Wrong
5. She's Only a Woman

Lonnie Johnson (voc/gt) - J. Altheimer (pn)

6. Friendless Blues
7. What A Woman

Lonnie Johnson (voc/gt) -
John Hughes (pn) - Roy Coulter (b)

8. Playing Around
9. It's Too Late To Cry

Lonnie Johnson (voc/gt)
Herman Smith (pn) - Monte Morrison (b)

10. Seven Long Days

Lonnie Johnson (voc/gt)
Tiny Bradshaw's Band: Red Prysock (ts)
Jimmy Robinson (pn) - Clarence Mack (b) - Calvin Shields (dm)

11. Why Should I Cry

Lonnie Johnson (voc/gt)
Ray Felder, Eddie Smith (ts) - Willie Wilkins (pn)
Tommy Smith (b) - Unk (dm)

12. You Can't Buy Love
13. It Was All In Vain
14. Me And My Crazy Self
15. What Do You Want That I've Got, Pretty Baby
16. I'm Guilty

Lonnie Johnson (voc/gt)
Todd Rhodes' Band: Charlie Hooks (tp) - Holley Dismukes (as)
Louis Stephens (ts) - Teddy Buckner (bs) - Todd Rhodes (pn)
Joe Williams (b) - Bill Benjamin (dm)

17. Happy New Year Darling

Lonnie Johnson (voc/gt)
Hot Lips Page (tp) - Hal Singer, Tom Archia (ts)
Joe Knight (pn) - Carl Wilson (b) - Bobby Donaldson (dm)

18. You Only Want Me When You're Lonely
19. Old Fashioned Love

Lonnie Johnson (voc/gt) - Simeon Hatch (pn)
Paul Henry Parks (b) - Nelson Burton (dm)

20. My My Baby
21. Can't Sleep Any More
22. Just Another Day


Lonnie Johnson (voc/gt)
Todd Rhodes' Band: Charlie Hooks (tp) - Holley Dismukes (as)
Louis Stephens (ts) - Teddy Buckner (bs) - Todd Rhodes (pn)
Joe Williams (b) - Bill Benjamin (dm)