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It's well-established that the blues, an art form born out of the Mississippi Delta cotton fields in the early 1900s, is a root of all forms of popular music: rock, pop, jazz, funk and even hip-hop. The man known as Riley B. King was born in the environment of that Delta, and has since become the most recognized name in blues--and perhaps, the most influential as well: B.B. King...
This is from another gem from the Smithsonian catalog. It is from the album Lonnie Johnson The Complete Folkways Recordings released in 1993. I'm sending you off again to a link about Lonnie Johnson. I know very little. http://www.musicianguide.com/biographies/1608000968/Lonnie-Johnson.html MP3 File
B.B. King is 83 today. Many more B.B. Many more. King doesn’t play chords or slide; instead, he bends individual strings till the notes seem to cry. His style reflects his upbringing in the Mississippi Delta and coming of age in Memphis. Seminal early influences included such bluesmen as T-Bone Walker (whose [...]
B.B. King is 83 today. Many more B.B. Many more. King doesn’t play chords or slide; instead, he bends individual strings till the notes seem to cry. His style reflects his upbringing in the Mississippi Delta and coming of age in Memphis. Seminal early influences included such bluesmen as T-Bone Walker (whose [...]
Since my sickness sent me scrambling towards sad Southern Blues, I’ve been fairly obsessed. My latest discovery has been peripatetic bluesman and alleged Robert Johnson inspiration, Lonnie Johnson. Specifically, his “Winnie the Wailer” a 1932 cut heavily reminiscent of Cab Calloway’s famous “Minnie the Moocher.” Despite the obvious similarity, it remains a wonderful song, [...]
Filed under: Video , Album , New Music Spinner.com : Having recently released his latest album, 'One Kind Favor,' B.B. King returns with an inspired set of covers that revisits his musical influences from the 1950s, including Blind Lemon Jefferson, Howlin' Wolf and Lonnie Johnson. With the help of... Read more
Less is more these days for Lonnie Johnson. After a high-profile college career with Florida State that led to the bright lights of the NFL, Johnson's present-day field of dreams is utterly devoid of glitz.
From the Granada (UK) television program, I Hear the Blues . The show aired December 12, 1963 and featured the likes of Memphis Slim , Muddy Waters , Sonny Boy Williamson , Willie Dixon , Lonnie Johnson , Big Joe Williams , and Matt "Guitar" Murph y . This was quite the assemblage of blues masters on an unprecedented ensemble tour of Europe that included stops in London, Denmark and Paris. I'd wager...
Austin criminal defense attorney Jodi Callaway-Cole, who represented Lonnie Johnson, has issued the following statement: Representing Lonnie on his subsequent federal habeas' for his death penalty case was an emotionally and professionally taxing endeavor. I have been kept up many...
In about 30 minutes Carrie Christensen will be holding a news conference at the Magnolia Hotel in Houston to discuss the case of Lonnie Johnson, who was executed by Texas one year ago today. She has started the LEJ Foundation...
This is a song with a couple of titles. Times Are Getting Hard, Boys is the other. It was recorded in the 50's with a few variations by Pete Seeger and Lonnie Johnson. This version appears on their 1960 album The Limeliters. MP3 File
When producer T Bone Burnett first met with B.B. King, he presented the blues legend with a simple mission statement: “I’d like for you to go back to the Fifties and do some of the stuff as you did it then.” At 82, King wondered whether he could really re-create what he calls “the B.B. [...]
I updated the release dates for the first blues mix below - I knew someone would call me out for not including it - yet here we are. Does anyone know if Yazoo Records is still releasing albums? Their website doesn’t seem like it has been updated since the last batch of Patton reissues, but [...]
