Four Classic Albums (Blues By Lonnie Johnson / Idle Hours / Blues And Ballads / Losing Game)
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Lonnie Johnson
Four Classic Albums (Blues By Lonnie Johnson / Idle Hours / Blues And Ballads / Losing Game)
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Release Date: Friday 5 August 2016
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Born into a large musical family in New Orleans, Lonnie Johnson was always much more than just the bluesman that he became known as during his long and intermittent career. He began learning to play music from a very young age tackling and mastering the piano, guitar, violin and mandolin and quickly finding his place in the family musical unit. By his early teens Lonnie was primarily playing guitar and violin in his father's band and by 1917 he joined a revue that toured England! During these early years he was probably playing as much jazz as blues but after winning a blues competition in 1925 he was signed to the Okeh Records label and this pretty much sealed his fate as a blues player. Musicians Lonnie played with include Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Roosevelt Sykes, James P Johnson and Eddie Lang. Musicians Lonnie influenced include Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, T Bone Walker and Bob Dylan who met him during the blues revival years in the 1960's and our own Lonnie Donegan who even nicked his name! However as a pioneer of the electric guitar and the electrified violin the influence of Lonnie Johnson across the whole spectrum of music is incalculable. His career echoed that of many of the classic bluesman of the early twentieth century in that he achieved much success in the early days only to be forgotten in the later days of the 1940's and 1950's having to make his living with whatever menial jobs he could get. Then miraculously he was discovered again during the blues boom of the 1960's from which our four selections come from.
Tracks:
CD1
1. Don't Ever Love (Blues By Lonnie Johnson)
2. No Love For Sale (Blues By Lonnie Johnson)
3. There's No Love (Blues By Lonnie Johnson)
4. I Don't Hurt Anymore (Blues By Lonnie Johnson)
5. She Devil (Blues By Lonnie Johnson)
6. One Sided Love Affair (Blues By Lonnie Johnson)
7. Big Leg Woman (Blues By Lonnie Johnson)
8. There Must Be A Way (Blues By Lonnie Johnson)
9. She's Drunk Again (Blues By Lonnie Johnson)
10. Blues 'Round My Door (Blues By Lonnie Johnson)
11. You Don't Move Me (Blues By Lonnie Johnson)
12. You Will Need Me (Blues By Lonnie Johnson)
13. Darling I Miss You So (Idle Hours)
14. Long Time Blues (Idle Hours)
15. You Are My Life (Idle Hours)
16. Oh Yes Baby (Idle Hours)
17. Please Baby (Idle Hours)
18. Leave Me Or Love Me (Idle Hours)
19. Idle Hours (Idle Hours)
20. You Have No Love In Your Heart (Idle Hours)
21. Good Luck Darlin' (Idle Hours)
22. No More Cryin' (Idle Hours)
23. I Got The Blues So Bad (Idle Hours)
24. End It All (Idle Hours)
CD2
1. Haunted House (Blues And Ballads)
2. Memories Of You (Blues And Ballads)
3. Blues For Chris (Blues And Ballads)
4. I Found A Dream (Blues And Ballads)
5. St. Louis Blues (Blues And Ballads)
6. I'll Get Along Somehow (Blues And Ballads)
7. Savoy Blues (Blues And Ballads)
8. Back Water Blues (Blues And Ballads)
9. Elmer's Blues (Blues And Ballads)
10. Jelly Roll Baker (Blues And Ballads)
11. New Orleans Blues (Losing Game)
12. My Little Kitten Susie (Losing Game)
13. Evil Woman (Losing Game)
14. What A Difference A Day Makes (Losing Game)
15. Moaning Blues (Losing Game)
16. Summertime (Losing Game)
17. Lines In My Face (Losing Game)
18. Losing Game (Losing Game)
19. New Year's Blues (Losing Game)
20. Slow And Easy (Losing Game)
21. Four Walls And Me (Losing Game)
22. You Won't Let Me Go (Losing Game)
