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The Unsung Blues Legend: The Living Room Session (CD)

By: Lonnie Johnson (Artist)

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DISC 1 for The Unsung Blues Legend: The Living Room Session (CD) Album By Lonnie Johnson (Artist)
1   This Love Of Mine
2   September Song
3   Don't Cry Baby
4   Solitude
5   I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
6   I Can't Give You Anything But Love Baby
7   St. Louis Blues
8   New Orleans Blues
9   Careless Love
10   Danny Boy - (guitar solo)
11   Back Water Blues
12   My Mother's Eyes
13   Prisoner Of Love
14   There's Been Some Changes Made
15   Jelly Jelly
16   Summertime
17   Rockin' Chair - (fade out)
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (7/21/00, pp.78-9) - "...A major addition to the Johnson canon....[His] unaffected voice aches with feeling..." - Rating: B+
Down Beat (12/00, p.88) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Every time Johnson's handsome but overwrought singing threatens to sink a tune, his guitar crackles with urgency and sets things right."
JazzTimes (10/00, p.121) - "...A rarity in his lengthy discography....A fascinating document and revealing look at this fabulous interpreter of classic melodies..."
Dirty Linen (4-5/01, pp.82-3) - "...Essential listening for blues/jazz aficionados....showing the guitarist at the end of his career...still in fine form..."

Title Note

Solo performer: Lonnie Johnson (vocals, guitar).

Reissue producer: Jim Eigo.

Recorded in Queens, New York in 1965. Includes liner notes by Bernie Strassberg.

Digitally remastered by Malcolm Addey.

New Orleans-bred guitarist/singer Lonnie Johnson is a seminal figure in American music. Johnson, one of the 1920s' first recorded jazz guitarists, played both blues and jazz brilliantly, and recorded with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Helen Humes, while his songs were recorded by such luminaries as Big Joe Turner and Elvis Presley. This previously unreleased session, recorded in 1965 at the house of a friend/fan in Queens, New York, captures the master musician in an intimate and relaxed setting.

Johnson has a mellow yet spirited voice, somewhat like B.B. King if he were a crooner, and, though it's not as innovative as his '20s/'30s work, his guitar playing glistens, combining Delta blues dexterity with urban savoir faire. The tunes are a surprising mix of originals ("New Orleans Blues"), blues gems (Bessie Smith's "Back Water Blues," "Jelly Jelly"), and Frank Sinatra (Ol' Blue Eyes' "This Love of Mine" and "September Song"). Though the recording quality is primitive by digital-age standards, it's still uniformly crisp and clear.

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