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The Original Guitar Wizard | 
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| Artist: Lonnie Johnson
Label: Proper Box UK
Category: Music
List Price: $25.98
Buy New: $20.62
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 22330
Format: Box Set, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 5.1 x 2.1
UPC: 805520020817
EAN: 0805520020817
ASIN: B0006ZRX5O
Release Date: January 31, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW, Factory Sealed items direct from the Studios. 30 Day Satisfaction Guarantee. Quick International Airmail!
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Mr. Johnson's Blues | | • | Johnson's Trio Stomp | | • | To Do This You Got to Know How | | • | South Bound Water | | • | I Done Told You | | • | Steppin' On the Blues | | • | Steady Grind - Lonnie Johnson, Spivey | | • | Four Hands Are Better Than Two | | • | Woke Up With the Blues in My Fingers | | • | Backwater Blues - Lonnie Johnson, Smith | | • | Mean Old Bed Bug Blues - Lonnie Johnson, Higginbotham | | • | Roaming Ramble Blues | | • | Stay Out of Walnut Street Alley | | • | St. Louis Cyclone Blues | | • | Bedbug Blues, Pt. 2 | | • | Garter Snake Blues - Lonnie Johnson, Spivey | | • | 6/88 Glide | | • | Life Saver Blues | | • | I'm Not Rough - Lonnie Johnson, Hardin, Lil | | • | Sweet Potato Blues | | • | Hotter Than That - Lonnie Johnson, Hardin | | • | Savoy Blues - Lonnie Johnson, Ory | | • | Playing With the Strings | | • | Stompin' Em Along Now |
Disc 2
| • | Deep Blue Sea Blues - Lonnie Johnson, Alexander | | • | No More Women Blues - Lonnie Johnson, Alexander | | • | I'm So Tired of Living All Alone | | • | Crowing Rooster Blues | | • | Broken Levee Blues | | • | Careless Love - Lonnie Johnson, Handy, W.C. | | • | Toothache Blues, Pts. 1-2 - Lonnie Johnson, Jefferson | | • | Misty Mornin' - Lonnie Johnson, Ellington | | • | Two Tone Stomp | | • | Have to Change Keys to Play These Blues | | • | It Feels So Good, Pts. 1-2 | | • | Jet Black Blues | | • | Guitar Blues - Lonnie Johnson, Johnson, Lonnie | | • | Blue Guitars | | • | Bullfrog Moan | | • | Sundown Blues | | • | The New Fallin' Rain Blues | | • | You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now, Pts. 1-2 | | • | Hot Fingers | | • | Blue Room | | • | She's Making Whoopee in Hell Tonight | | • | Another Woman Booked Out and Bound to Go |
Disc 3
| • | I Got the Best Jelly Roll in Town, Pts. 1-2 | | • | The Dirty Dozen | | • | I Just Can't Stand These Blues | | • | Deep Sea Blues | | • | Long Black Train | | • | I Have to Do My Time | | • | No More Troubles Now | | • | You're Getting Old On Your Job | | • | Don't Wear It Out | | • | Got the Blues for Murder Only | | • | Let All Married Women Alone | | • | Beautiful But Dumb | | • | Sleepy Water Blues | | • | Uncle Red, Don't Use Your Head | | • | I'm Nuts About That Gal | | • | Racketeers Blues | | • | Swing Out Rhythm | | • | Why Women Go Wrong | | • | Jersey Belle Blues | | • | The Loveless Blues | | • | I'm Just Dumb | | • | Get Yourself Together | | • | Crowing Rooster Blues |
Disc 4
| • | That's Love | | • | Lazy Woman Blues | | • | In Love Again | | • | He's a Jelly Roll Baker | | • | When You Feel Low Down | | • | The Victim of Love | | • | Watch Shorty | | • | Keep What You Got | | • | Love Is the Answer | | • | Tomorrow Night - Lonnie Johnson, Coslow | | • | What a Real Woman | | • | Falling Rain Blues | | • | Working Man's Blues | | • | Playing Around | | • | Trouble Ain't Nothing But the Blues - Lonnie Johnson, Raney | | • | Blues Stay Away from Me - Lonnie Johnson, Raney | | • | Little Rockin' Chair | | • | Nothing But Trouble | | • | Why Should I Cry | | • | It Was All in Vain | | • | You Only Want Me When You're Lonely | | • | Me and My Crazy Self - Lonnie Johnson, Glover | | • | I'm Guilty | | • | Just Another Day | | • | You Can't Buy Love | | • | Can't Sleep Any More |
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Album Details
One of the Most Influential and Original Blues Musicians, Lonnie Johnson Virtually Created the Modern Blues Guitar Style on his Own, Sending the Music off in the Direction it Has Subsequently Taken. Combining Elements of Jazz Into his Technique Meant that He Blurred the Boundaries Between the Two Emerging Musics During the '30s, Later Slipping Out of Music Only to Return as an Elder Statesman in the 1960s. This Lavishly Presented Four CD Set Takes in all of the Recordings Made Between 1928 and 1952 that Created a Blues Legend and also Includes Comprehensive Liner Notes and a Full Discography.
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| Customer Reviews:
A True Pioneer June 18, 2008
D. B Pepper (Plainview, NY United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is the perfect box set. The liner notes are great, the packaging is fine, and the music contained on these discs is simply stunning. Lonnie's work with Texas Alexander doesn't sound like anything else committed to record. "Section Gang Blues" and "Levee Camp Moan" are startling in their intensity. His guitar duets with Eddie Lang will never lose their novelty, because they are music on the level of the Classical music of Europe. "Away Down in The Alley Blues" and "Hot Fingers" are mind-boggling. Lonnie's Blues lyrics are original and greatly detailed. He is the master of romantic balladry. He is a pioneer in Rhythm & Blues. He knows how to use double-entendre, and he certainly seems to have a true distrust of women!
The first guitar hero! January 3, 2007
M. Storlokken
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
B.B King, Albert King, Clapton, Vaughn, Green and Taylor were all guitar playing heroes of our youth. Naturally, they were really great pickers, no doubt about that! But the way I see it, this man, Lonnie Johnson, was the first and the greatest guitar hero ever! For five decades he entertained and pleased people with his mellow, emotionally charged voice and his unrivalled guitar playing. From country blues to jazz - he was equally at ease with a vast variety of music. His playing was always technically impressive (sometimes nearly insurmountable), touchingly melodic and with an inexhaustible well of ideas. Some of his solo instrumentals are not really possible to redo, and his duos with Eddie Lang surely belong to the highest class of American music. If I were to take only one single item with me to a deserted island (hopefully the area would have electricity), this CD box would be the one!
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