Lazy Lester
About the artist
Lazy Lester (Leslie Carswell Johnson, Torras, Louisiana, U.S., June 20, 1933 - August 22, 2018) was an American blues singer, harmonica player, guitarist and songwriter. His career has spanned the 1950s to 2018. Best known for regional hits recorded with Ernie Young's Nashville-based Excello Records, Lester also contributed to songs recorded by other Excello artists, including Slim Harpo, Lightnin' Slim, and Katie Webster. Cover versions of his songs have been recorded by (among others) the Kinks
Top songs
- Sugar Coated Love
- I'm a Man
- I'm A Lover Not A Fighter
- I Done Got Over It
- I Hear You Knockin'
- Alligator Shuffle
- I'm Your Breadmaker, Baby
- They Call Me Lazy
- You're Gonna Ruin Me Baby
- Take Me In Your Arms
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- I Made Up My Mind
- Tell Me Pretty Baby
- The Same Thing Could Happen To You
- Strange Things Happen
- Patrol Wagon Blues
- Go Ahead
- I Love You Baby
- Bye Bye Baby
- Raining In My Heart
- Bloodstains on the Wall
- Dark End of the Street
- Lester's Stomp
- Sad City Blues
- If You Think I've Lost You
- Ya Ya
- I Told My Little Woman
- I'm Gonna Leave You Baby
- I'm Gonna Miss You (Like The Devil)
- Five Long Years
- Gonna Stick To You Baby
- Ponderosa Shuffle
- I'm a lover, not a fighter
- Hello mary lee
- Nothing But the Devil
- Rooster Blues
- Irene
- No Special Rider
- The Sun Is Shining
- I need money
- My Home Is A Prison
- Whoa Now
- The Sun Is Shinning
- Blues Stop Knockin'
- Sugar Coates Love
- Patrol Blues
- Through The Goodness Of My Heart
- Lonesome Highway Blues
- I'm So Glad
- You Got Me Where You Want Me
- A Real Combination For Love
- I'm So Tired
- I Love You, I Need You
- A Woman
- If You Think You've Lost Me
- You Better Listen
- Late, Late In The Evening
- Because She's Gone
- Blue Stop Knockin'
- Bye, Bye Baby
- Courtroom Blues
- Pondarosa Stomp
- Scratch My Back
- Sugar Coated Love - Original vinyl version: Take 1
- Travelling Days - Original vinyl version: Take 3
- Back A La Maison
- I Hear You Knockin
- Patrol Wagon
- What You Want Me To Do
- Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
- Ethel Mae
- Sugar Coated Love (Original vinyl version: Take 1)
- Bright Lights Big City
- St Louis Blues - Original vinyl version: Take 1
- O.J. Shuffle
- Sugar Coated Love [*]
- Jambalaya
- A Word About Women
- Late In The Evening
- When My First Wife Left Me
- The Same Thing Could Happen To You - Original vinyl version: Take 2
- Paradise Stomp
- Blues Stop Knocking
- Ponderosa Stomp
- Travelling Days - Previously unreleased: Take 1
- Jail House Wall
- Can't Stand To See You Go - Original vinyl version: Take 1
- The Same Thing Will Happen To You
- Port Allen Jail
- I’m A Lover Not A Fighter
- Poor Boy Blues
- That's Alright
- I Hear You Knockin' - Original vinyl version: Take 4
- Out On The Road - Original vinyl version: Take 1
- Been Walking By Myself
- Instrumental Alley Rock
- Sugar-Coated Love
- I Hear You Knockin' (Original vinyl version: Take 4)
- Dream Club
- Nothing In This World
- Ain't Nothin' In This World
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