You can hear Lonnie Johnson’s influence in T-Bone Walker, along with MANY other blues players. Lonnie was, without a doubt, one of the greatest bluesmen to ever grace a stage!
It was my heartfelt honour to have Lonnie as my houseguest in 1967 or 1968 when he was more or less indtalled as the Penny Farthing Tavern in Toronto. He did a little gig in London,Ontario
His wife. (the ony one I know of) was a great oianist but no one ever hears of her. I sang with her in the early fifties for a few yeas. Nice person too.
He had a long recording career relatively speaking and was a trailblazer. As Joseph Nania says a mild mannered man and that persona certainly comes across, the clarity and of his voice and his guitar and really his demeanour being that of a gentleman, made a lasting impression on me. A musician and a troubadour. I have a Storyville LP somewhere with him and Otis Spann, to me a perfect duet.
Lonnie Johnson was, as a musician, and as Festus of Gunsmoke would've put it, "The Very Most T. I. Inctum Dinctum" of not only everything guitar...He was arguably the greatest musician ever in America and anywhere else! According to his contemporaries and/or peers (such as they were) Lonnie played every instrument around superbly! He recorded on most instruments as well. Also don't forget that by 1966 Lonnie had been performing worldwide for over half a century. Greatest musician of all time
Here is what the real blues - swing - jazz guitar sound and feel was - No big amps - or pedals- no sound effect units - LONNIE JOHNSON - started it all - and it led to Eddie lang - Charlie Christian - Django Reinhardt - T-Bone Walker - and of course to Chuck Berry and Scotty Moore which is where WE ALL get it from - They ALL heard him and were influenced - Joe Nania a.k.a. Hollywood Joe
I play guitar and mostly bass, and seeing these masters as Loonie Johnson, way ahead of their time, makes me wonder what is talent - such a word cannot be understood under the references of nowadays artists. Talent is to be a visionary, and this man was the Colombo of Blues: despised by some and love by others. Long live his work.
Absolutely, Drew. No question! I've heard them all. That's why it's curious that this 1966 recording has been cited as where rock 'n' roll came from, instead of the many 1920s recordings by Lonnie which are readily available on RUclips.
one of the godfather of all blues, jazz, and rock & roll guitarists and singers ! was lonnie johnson , it's all here ! rockin' rhythm , with sophisticated jazz chords , swing with an upbeat bluesey lead ..= a one man trio ,.. as sonny boy williamson so deftly puts it "the ONE and ONLY .. lonnie johnson " !!!!!!!!!!! watch him live in other videos ...
Always thought his live solo playing was far better than his studio material. But either way you cut it -- he was arguably THE influence of many lead players -- even now in 2020. More subtle licks than anyone of his time, after his time... and those licks are a main staple of today's players.
I think guy was more recognised as being Jazz than Blues ...'....the old blues players didnt really play lead lines like this in teh 20s and 30s if that is when he started lead line playing ....I feel Jazz was the Thing that put energy into blues and made Rock N Roll and Jive Rythym N Blues Fink etc
LONNIE JOHNSON.... the FATHER GRANDFATHER GREAT GRAND FATHER of it all....and soon- to - be the GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER the MAN that CREATED what we call the GUITAR SOLO BEFORE EDDIE LANG DJANGO REINHARDT ELMORE JAMES T-BONE WALKER CHARLIE CHRISTIAN DICK MCDONOUGH CARL KRESS TEDDY BUNN TAL FARLOW JIMMY RANEY BARNEY KESSEL CHUCK BERRY SCOTTY MOORE GEORGE HARRISON JIMI HENDRIX ERIC CLAPTON ALVIN LEE....he started it ALL....Hollywood Joe
People like to point to Charlie christan as the original shredder. Lonnie was bustn knuckles on the fretboard long before charlie...albeit on acoustic guitar... years before the birth of electric guitar
XTRA 1037 (UK 1966) - never on CD AFAIK :-( Lonnie Johnson - Johnson Swings - Some Day Baby - Lonesome Road - When You're Feeling Low Down - I Ain't Gonna Be Your Fool - Get Yourself Together - Roamin' Gambler - The Last Call - My Love Is Down - Nuts About That Girl - Fly Right Baby - Swingin' The Blues (instr) rec. 1966 in New York; Lonnie Johnson, voc, g; Folkways recordings
You are taking the comment way too literally. The comment I believe was meant to indicate that Lonnie Johnson's playing was one of the many roots from which rock and roll grew. Johnson had been doing this style since the 1920's long before rock and roll. He was just among the few who lived long enough to be around and still playing up a storm in 1966 and until a (very) few years later.
Of course! But I was answering the comment of the person who stated that this 1966 recording was where rock 'n' roll came from. It came from recordings much, much earlier than that!
Lonnie Johnson had been playing guitar long before 1966 and almost certainly was an influence on rock and roll. Listen to his work in the late twenties with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Eddie Lang, or the 40’s.
This guitar playing is profoundly good in every way. Everyone must have taken something from his playing. I think we have the guy here where blues, jazz, and swing guitar playing comes from. The original guitar hero. Wow is this good!
In which case it was a superior and uncalled for comment. You might find you will fare better by giving folk the benefit of the doubt and taking things in the spirit they were clearly intended. Just a hint.
I prefer his fingerpicking.. far more musical and interesting. This is like any other skilled flat picking blues player. Ho hum.. good but ho hum. Next.
You can hear Lonnie Johnson’s influence in T-Bone Walker, along with MANY other blues players. Lonnie was, without a doubt, one of the greatest bluesmen to ever grace a stage!
yeah, and BB King was deeply influenced by TB Walker and LJ
He could play the fool out of the Blues, Jazz and swing alike
Even Django admired him...
It was my heartfelt honour to have Lonnie as my houseguest in 1967 or 1968 when he was more or less indtalled as the Penny Farthing Tavern in Toronto. He did a little gig in London,Ontario
Hey from Peterbush we is neighbors and lonnie Johnson fans...how bout that lol cool story man
@@imannonymous7707 rigth Guy ! Cool for you !
Sorry for my low english. ..
Thanks Lonnie. You will never be forgotten.
Lonnie was in a class of his own.
Top 10 guitarist ever in U.S. history.
I’ve been looking for this guitar player all my life
I still listen it on 2019
2022!!
Damn now that's guitar playing! Long live the Blues!
I love Lonnie - this is the real Blues.
His wife. (the ony one I know of) was a great oianist but no one ever hears of her. I sang with her in the early fifties for a few yeas. Nice person too.
@@joemurphy6168 wait what- how old are you?
Yes it is....
I think YOU'll find Lonnie John had been developing these licks since the's 1920's...
LJ was a great guitarist who influenced many others. We all stand on the shoulders of giants.
He had a long recording career relatively speaking and was a trailblazer. As Joseph Nania says a mild mannered man and that persona certainly comes across, the clarity and of his voice and his guitar and really his demeanour being that of a gentleman, made a lasting impression on me. A musician and a troubadour. I have a Storyville LP somewhere with him and Otis Spann, to me a perfect duet.
You might find you will fare better by enjoying this fine music instead of arguing. Just a hint :-)
Waaaay ahead of his time phrasing and speed wise.
This guy goes back to the twenties.
m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3124785860898922&id=100001026151518
Une légende du blues ❤💙❤
Lots of great pics of the Great Man
Lonnie Johnson was, as a musician, and as Festus of Gunsmoke would've put it, "The Very Most T. I. Inctum Dinctum" of not only everything guitar...He was arguably the greatest musician ever in America and anywhere else! According to his contemporaries and/or peers (such as they were) Lonnie played every instrument around superbly! He recorded on most instruments as well. Also don't forget that by 1966 Lonnie had been performing worldwide for over half a century. Greatest musician of all time
Good clips of Gun Smoke crew and Muddy Waters and a few other blues people traveling around in a big car.
whoa, unbelievable, so much good stuff
Dazzling, just dazzling!
Here is what the real blues - swing - jazz guitar sound and feel was - No big amps - or pedals- no sound effect units - LONNIE JOHNSON - started it all - and it led to Eddie lang - Charlie Christian - Django Reinhardt - T-Bone Walker - and of course to Chuck Berry and Scotty Moore which is where WE ALL get it from - They ALL heard him and were influenced - Joe Nania a.k.a. Hollywood Joe
I named a few to just show an example of LONNIE'S influence
the more I hear Lonnie Johnson's music, the more i think your statement is true.
Tony
@Selah7 Chuck Berry was a pioneer of Rock n Roll, but not of blues or guitar.
@@KieraQ0323 Chuck played the guitar like Monroe played the mandolin
Bet Merle Travis listened to him too
This is almost too much awesomeness in one place at one time and its just him.
Amazing
Listen to Lonnie's Life Saver Blues and you can hear something that other Johnson guy borrowed...
Never heard this before. Song sounds exactly likes it's title suggests.
Everything that needs to be said about blues guitar is in this one recording.
Huh. No. Listen to Lightnin Hopkins and Mississippi John Hurt, they contributed to blues guitar very differently.
It´s so cool!!! I had never heard that!!!
Amábille:-)
I play guitar and mostly bass, and seeing these masters as Loonie Johnson, way ahead of their time, makes me wonder what is talent - such a word cannot be understood under the references of nowadays artists. Talent is to be a visionary, and this man was the Colombo of Blues: despised by some and love by others. Long live his work.
Bla bla it's Lonnie and no guitar player is going say crap about Lonnie Johnson
Buen toque.✨🎸
Absolutely, Drew. No question! I've heard them all. That's why it's curious that this 1966 recording has been cited as where rock 'n' roll came from, instead of the many 1920s recordings by Lonnie which are readily available on RUclips.
one of the godfather of all blues, jazz, and rock & roll guitarists and singers !
was lonnie johnson , it's all here ! rockin' rhythm , with sophisticated jazz chords ,
swing with an upbeat bluesey lead ..= a one man trio ,..
as sonny boy williamson so deftly puts it
"the ONE and ONLY .. lonnie johnson " !!!!!!!!!!!
watch him live in other videos ...
Deserves way more views... jazz guitarist charlie christian did a pretty ace version as well
Where Rock and Roll came from...
Nice sequence of photos, if I may say so. Fantastic playing!
i'd love to meet the 2 people who gave this a thumbs down
why???That would mean they would just be tone deaf Soulless assholes..???
if you do, TRY to act like a friend to them, get their addresses, and call me up. I'll gladly go bomb their homes.
they should be banned from communication with humans
thumb em in the eyes
That was muddy and willie d. Lol
Oh my... 😲
He had me on the first note.
Thanks for uploading this, never heard this before, fantastic playing of course !
magnifique!!!!
Lonnie Johnson was doing this in the early 1920's. By the way, rock & roll came out of a cereal box, along with a decoder ring
Kd a galera que está ouvindo 2019
Nessa quarentena.. ✌🔥PB/BR
This is also new to me, the photos are superb, he has such a soulful lovely face.
Tks for the upload.
@joriszsz -- and from country, and doo-wop, and jazz, and all much earlier than this 1966 recording by Lonnie Johnson.
What a legend in Jazz/ Blues guitar ! : )
sublime
wow
bb king's inspiration
Always thought his live solo playing was far better than his studio material.
But either way you cut it -- he was arguably THE influence of many lead players -- even now in 2020.
More subtle licks than anyone of his time, after his time... and those licks are a main staple of today's players.
Wow!
Go lonnie go
Yeah there were some really good early guitarists this guy and Blind Blake were two
Good call. Blake was one of the VERY best to emerge from that same era.
🎼🎶⭐️
I think guy was more recognised as being Jazz than Blues ...'....the old blues players didnt really play lead lines like this in teh 20s and 30s if that is when he started lead line playing ....I feel Jazz was the Thing that put energy into blues and made Rock N Roll and Jive Rythym N Blues Fink etc
do ya reckon this guy was a big influence on hendrix id like to think so he is awesome
this is more blues than rock n roll sweetheart
LONNIE JOHNSON.... the FATHER GRANDFATHER GREAT GRAND FATHER of it all....and soon- to - be the GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER the MAN that CREATED what we call the GUITAR SOLO BEFORE EDDIE LANG DJANGO REINHARDT ELMORE JAMES T-BONE WALKER CHARLIE CHRISTIAN DICK MCDONOUGH CARL KRESS TEDDY BUNN TAL FARLOW JIMMY RANEY BARNEY KESSEL CHUCK BERRY SCOTTY MOORE GEORGE HARRISON JIMI HENDRIX ERIC CLAPTON ALVIN LEE....he started it ALL....Hollywood Joe
#1
This is the 1966 competitor for the Guitar Center King(Battle) of the Blues Guitar.
30k plays...not one dislike. good job!!!
People like to point to Charlie christan as the original shredder. Lonnie was bustn knuckles on the fretboard long before charlie...albeit on acoustic guitar... years before the birth of electric guitar
XTRA 1037 (UK 1966) - never on CD AFAIK :-(
Lonnie Johnson
- Johnson Swings
- Some Day Baby
- Lonesome Road
- When You're Feeling Low Down
- I Ain't Gonna Be Your Fool
- Get Yourself Together
- Roamin' Gambler
- The Last Call
- My Love Is Down
- Nuts About That Girl
- Fly Right Baby
- Swingin' The Blues (instr)
rec. 1966 in New York; Lonnie Johnson, voc, g; Folkways recordings
@brucedickey -- I think you'll find that Rock 'n' Roll had been around for more than a decade by 1966.
If T-Bone was the predecessor to Chuck Berry, Lonnie was the predecessor to Cliff Gallup. What a player!
You are taking the comment way too literally. The comment I believe was meant to indicate that Lonnie Johnson's playing was one of the many roots from which rock and roll grew. Johnson had been doing this style since the 1920's long before rock and roll. He was just among the few who lived long enough to be around and still playing up a storm in 1966 and until a (very) few years later.
Of course! But I was answering the comment of the person who stated that this 1966 recording was where rock 'n' roll came from. It came from recordings much, much earlier than that!
Lonnie Johnson had been playing guitar long before 1966 and almost certainly was an influence on rock and roll. Listen to his work in the late twenties with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Eddie Lang, or the 40’s.
@@trevorelliston1 -- Absolutely!
@lupine22 however, rock n roll came from out the blues...
I love this flat picking' Lonnie, but not like I love the virtuoso blues/jazz instrumentals recorded finger style in the 1920s and 1930s.
Tell them Stan then man who is the Guitar Daddy.
This guitar playing is profoundly good in every way. Everyone must have taken something from his playing. I think we have the guy here where blues, jazz, and swing guitar playing comes from. The original guitar hero. Wow is this good!
@lupine22 of course, just saying...
I guess an influence on Gatemouth Brown .
Play
No Nonsense Jamming.
In which case it was a superior and uncalled for comment. You might find you will fare better by giving folk the benefit of the doubt and taking things in the spirit they were clearly intended. Just a hint.
I prefer his fingerpicking.. far more musical and interesting. This is like any other skilled flat picking blues player. Ho hum.. good but ho hum. Next.
Your playing sounds worse than Monica punk stfu