Alfonzo "Lonnie" Johnson (February 8, 1894 - June 6, 1970) was a pioneering blues and jazz musician born in New Orleans, Louisiana. There is some dispute over the year of his birth, but 1894 is printed on his passport. Raised in a family of musicians, Johnson started out playing blues on piano and violin, but concentrated on guitar and banjo for most of his career.
Johnson died in 1970 of complications from a traffic accident a year earlier. He was inducted into the Louisiana Blues Hall of Fame in 1997.
See also
External links
- Discography and brief biography http://www.redhotjazz.com/ljohnson.html
- Biography http://commerce.xspedius.net/blues/lonnie.htm
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