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Lonnie Johnson with Elmer Snowden, Blues & Ballads CD cover artwork

Lonnie Johnson with Elmer Snowden, Blues & Ballads

Audio CD

Disk ID: 1617934

Disk length: 43m 58s (10 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 1960

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Haunted House 5:02
2. Memories Of You 4:23
3. Blues For Chris 5:07
4. I Found A Dream 4:36
5. St. Louis Blues 3:08
6. I'll Get Along Somehow 4:30
7. Savoy Blues 4:14
8. Back Water Blues 5:07
9. Elmer's Blues 3:30
10. Jelly Roll Baker 4:14

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Review

This beautiful album was engineered by Rudy Van Gelder in his Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, home studio where so much jazz history was made. It features guitar innovators Lonnie Johnson and Elmer Snowden together for the first time--despite a friendship going back to the 1920s when both appeared on some of the earliest jazz and blues 78s. Johnson, the father of single-note six-string soloing, is in marvelous voice on this selection of blues, ballads, and jazz, crooning the double-entendre "Jelly Roll Baker" and the heartache-laden "Back Water Blues" (a Bessie Smith tune he first cut in 1927) with a marksman's sense of pitch and chilling nuance. Snowden serves mostly as accompanist. But these men play so closely that they seem to be sharing every breath. --Ted Drozdowski

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