Video of the Week #29

Lonnie Johnson was a blues singer and guitarist whose career spanned the years 1925 through the mid-'60s. Although born in New Orleans, his finger picking style was more typical of the Piedmont area of the Carolinas and Virginia. In addition to the blues, he played jazz guitar duets with Eddie Lang and recorded with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. He had a #1 rhythm and blues hit, "Tomorrow Night," in 1948. Here he is doing "Another Night to Cry" in 1963, introduced by Sonny Boy Williamson #2, and accompanied by Otis Spann, piano; Willie Dixon, bass; and Bill Stepney, drums.

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