Lonnie Johnson - Too Late to Cry live [Colourised] 1963

Lonnie Johnson - New Year's Blues

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This is a great traditional blues lick from Lonnie Johnson in the style of him playing, "See See Rider." What I love about this lick is how it shows the mashing together of the major and minor blues sounds to create an unmistakable sound that is so authentic for the blues. I hope you dig the video! Blues Guitar Unleashed Courses - https://gobgu.com/courses | Blues Guitar Unleashed

Blues guitar simply would not have developed in the manner that it did if not for Lonnie Johnson. He was there to help define the instrument’s future within the genre and the genre’s future itself at the very beginning, his melodic conception so far advanced from most of his prewar peers as to inhabit a plane all his own. For more than 40 years, Johnson played blues, jazz, and ballads his way; he was a true blues originator whose influence hung heavy on a host of subsequent blues immortals. Lonn