Lonnie Johnson

The first time when I might to choose one singer who sang a blue song by Ajarn Cecil. I did not know what name I want because all of them I did not know them before. So I would like to pick one name for search in formations. It made that I know about his story and his life was attractive for me.



"Lonnie" Johnson (February 8, 1970) was a pioneering blues and jazz singer, guitarist born in Louisiana. He was a pioneer of jazz guitar play single-string guitar solos.
In 1920s, Johnson worked with the orchestras of Charlie Creath and Fate Marable on riverboats. He won an Okeh Records blues contest that resulted in his making a series of memorable recordings for the label between 1925 and 1932, including guitar duets. He was working at Philadephia's Benjamin Franklin Hotel in 1959 when WHAT-FM disc jockey.
After that he performed with Duke Ellington and his orchestra and with an all-star folk concert, both at Town Hall, New York City.

He start to Europe and recorded several albums for the Prestige Bluesville label, some with Elmer Snowden and one with his Okeh vocal partner, Victoria Spivey. To his great regret, Johnson was always tagged as a blues artist, and he found it difficult to be regarded as anything else. Johnson died in Ontario, Canada, June 16, 1970.

I open one website and I want to listen some music’s of Lonnie Johnson. I feel that each song will stress with voice of guitar, the sound of the singer still clear and more power to listen although I will not understand all meanings and the record in the story will long time. I notice that some music will have a little text of a song such as A Story about Barbara, Another night to cry, Make Love to Me, My mother’s eye etc. I believe that he is a model singer of the blue song and anyone who love a music want to follow him for sure.