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Lonnie Johnson

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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.

Top songs

  1. Tomorrow Night
  2. Guitar Blues
  3. Playing With The Strings
  4. Jet Black Blues
  5. Some Day Baby
  6. The Mooche
  7. Life Saver Blues
  8. Looking for a Sweetie
  9. Careless Love
  10. Blue Ghost Blues
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  1. I'm Nuts About That Gal
  2. Another Night to Cry
  3. I'm Not Rough
  4. Hotter Than That
  5. She's Making Whoopee In Hell Tonight
  6. When You Fall for Someone That's Not Your Own
  7. St. Louis Blues
  8. Racketeer's Blues
  9. The Best Jockey In Town
  10. Get Yourself Together
  11. I'm So Tired of Living All Alone
  12. Away Down in the Alley Blues
  13. Sweet Woman You Can't Go Wrong
  14. Falling Rain Blues
  15. Mr. Johnson's Blues
  16. Mean Old Bedbug Blues
  17. Tears Don't Fall No More
  18. Got The Blues For Murder Only
  19. Way Down That Lonesome Road
  20. She's Only a Woman
  21. Steppin' On The Blues
  22. Long Road to Travel
  23. It's Too Late to Cry
  24. Hot And Bothered
  25. St. Louis Blues - Remastered 2025
  26. I Done Told You
  27. Don't be no fool
  28. Sweet Potato Blues
  29. Wipe It Off
  30. Four Hands Are Better Than Two
  31. Move Over
  32. Low Land Moan
  33. Sundown Blues
  34. Savoy Blues
  35. Woke up with the Blues in My Fingers
  36. No More Troubles Now
  37. Baby Please Don't Leave Home No More
  38. Raise the Window High
  39. Trust Your Husband
  40. Jelly roll baker
  41. Backwater blues
  42. Summertime
  43. Winnie the Wailer
  44. Johnson's Trio Stomp
  45. Another Night To Cry - American Folk Blues Festival Version
  46. Swing out rhythm
  47. Have To Change Keys (To Play These Blues)
  48. Deep Blue Sea Blues
  49. A Handful Of Riffs
  50. Haunted House
  51. Happy new year darling
  52. No More Women Blues
  53. Blue Blood Blues
  54. Two Tone Stomp
  55. The Mooche (Work Quarters)
  56. Too Late to Cry
  57. Saint Louis Cyclone Blues
  58. Hot Fingers
  59. Racketeers Blues
  60. In Love Again
  61. Big Leg Woman
  62. Friendless Blues
  63. There's No Use of Lovin'
  64. Jersey Belle Blues
  65. Paducah
  66. Memories Of You
  67. I Found A Dream
  68. The mooche [Works Quarter]
  69. 6/88 Glide
  70. Low Down St. Louis Blues
  71. Why Women Go Wrong
  72. Sitting On Top Of The World
  73. Blues For Chris
  74. Blues in G
  75. No Love for Sale
  76. That Lonesome Road
  77. Nile Of Genago
  78. Untitled
  79. Nothing but trouble
  80. Jet black blues [Countryside]
  81. He's a Jelly Roll Baker
  82. How Deep Is the Ocean
  83. Won't Don't Blues
  84. Got the Blues for the West End
  85. I Love You, Mary Lou
  86. I'll Get Along Somehow
  87. To Do This You Gotta Know How
  88. Back Water Blues
  89. Jet Black Blues (Countryside)
  90. Me and my crazy self

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