Lonnie Johnson
USA
Born: 08 February 1899
Died: 16 June 1970
Styles: Country Blues, St. Louis Blues, Jump Blues/Piano Blues, Urban Blues, Jazz Blues, Piano Blues, Acoustic Blues, Piedmont Blues, East Coast Blues, Pre-War Country Blues, Blues Revival, Early American Blues, Early Jazz, New Orleans/Classic Jazz, Early R&B, R&B/Soul
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Blues guitar simply would not have developed in the manner that it did if not for the prolific brilliance of Lonnie Johnson. He was there to help define the instrument's future within the genre and the genre's future itself at the very beginning, his melodic conception so far advanced from most of his prewar peers as to inhabit a plane all his own. For more than 40 years, Johnson played blues, jazz, and ballads his way; he was a true blues originator whose influence hung heavy on a host of subsequent blues immortals. Johnson's extreme versatili...
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