Lonnie Johnson

Alfonzo "Lonnie" Johnson (February 8, 1894 – June 6, 1970) was a pioneering blues and jazz singer/guitarist born in New Orleans, Louisiana. There is some dispute over the year of his birth, but 1894 is what appears on his passport. Lonnie Johnson's early recordings are the first guitar recordings that display a single-note soloing style with use of string bending and vibrato. While it cannot be proven that this contains the influence of earlier players who did not record, it is the origin of Blues and Rock solo guitar. Read more on Last.fm

Lonnie Johnson has 3 songs that have been featured in movies like Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music, Desperate Man Blues and Shutter Island. What is your favorite song by Lonnie Johnson?

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