On growing up in New Orleans Parish: “There was music all around us, and in my family you’d better play something, even if you just banged on a tin can.” Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie Johnson created the single-note guitar solo in the 1920s, and decades passed before the guitar was regarded as more than a background rhythm instrument. Although Johnson is primarily regarded as a bluesman, he played other styles equally well.
I don’t know who’s on drums or piano, but that’s Willie Dixon on bass, and the vid is likely from the mid to late 1960s. Don’t know who introduced Lonnie Johnson on that vid either, so the best thing is for me to shut up and introduce
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