Steppin' on the Blues by Lonnie Johnson (CD, Aug-1990, Legacy Recordings) 
Steppin' on the Blues by Lonnie Johnson (CD, Aug-1990, Legacy Recordings)

 
Steppin' on the Blues by Lonnie Johnson (CD, Aug-1990, Legacy Recordings)

Artist: Lonnie Johnson
Release Date: Aug 1990
Format: CD
Record Label: Legacy Recordings
Genre: Blues, Country Blues
UPC: 074644622126
Product ID: EPID3105611
Description: This is part of Columbia's Roots N' Blues series. Among the blues' biggest stars, Lonnie Johnson is perhaps the most musically complex. A New Orleans native who spent parts of his youth in Europe and St. Louis, Johnson naturally incorpor...
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Track Listing
1. Mr. Johnson's Blues
2. Sweet Potato Blues
3. Steppin' on the Blues - (bonus track)
4. I Done Told You - (bonus track)
5. Mean Old Bedbug Blues
6. Toothache Blues Part I
7. Toothache Blues Part II
8. Have to Change Keys (To Play These Blues)
9. Guitar Blues
10. She's Making Whoopee in Hell Tonight
11. Playing With the Strings
12. No More Women Blues
13. Deep Blue Sea Blues
14. No More Troubles Now
15. Got the Blues For Murder Only
16. Untitled
17. 6/88 Glide - (bonus track)
18. Racketeer's Blues
19. I'm Nuts About That Gal

Details
Contributing Artists:Eddie Lang, Texas Alexander, Victoria Spivey
Distributor:Sony Music Distribution (
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Mixed
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
This is part of Columbia's Roots N' Blues series.
Among the blues' biggest stars, Lonnie Johnson is perhaps the most musically complex. A New Orleans native who spent parts of his youth in Europe and St. Louis, Johnson naturally incorporated many elements of jazz into his blues (Johnson was so proficient a jazz guitarist, in fact, that Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong often hired him as a sideman). In stark contrast to the raw, visceral blues of contemporary stars Blind Lemon Jefferson and Charlie Patton, Lonnie Johnson played sophisticated, "uptown" blues. Nearly every blues or jazz guitarist worth his or her salt--B.B. King, T-Bone Walker, Charlie Christian, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, to name a few--has claimed this great master as an influence.
STEPPIN' ON THE BLUES, yet another excellent entry from Columbia Records' invaluable Roots 'N' Blues series, includes 19 fine tracks (including four previously unreleased) recorded between 1925 and 1932. STEPPIN' presents a nice variety of Johnson's styles: conventional vocal blues, "dirty" blues duets with Victoria Spivey, straight 12-bar instrumentals, and several jazzier compositions. A fine introduction to an under-appreciated blues giant.

Editorial Reviews
4 Stars - Very Good - ..Johnson's fretwork melds sublimely with accompanists' backing, and he struts his remarkable versatility supporting vocalists as diverse as Victoria Spivey and Texas Alexander. This is the virtual birth of the guitar as a solo jazz instrument..
Down Beat (02/01/1991)

Sound C / Performance A ..I've always been consistently amazed at the fingering technique of this Mr. Johnson, so much so that on a couple of things I can't even figure out how he's playing what he does.
Audio Magazine (01/01/1991)

Living Blues ..possibly the most important single reissue...superb...the essential Lonnie reissue.

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