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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 pre-war peers as to inhabit a plane all his own. For more than 40 years, Johnson ...more

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  • Won't Don't Blues
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  • She's Making Whoopee in Hell Tonight
  • Man Killing Broad

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  • A LeisureSuit.net Review; Lonnie Johnson, the Unsung Blues Legend: The Living Room Tapes
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