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Blues & Ballads
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 more
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- Posted: Nov-15-2008
Yes, He Bakes The Best Jelly Roll In Town
Okay, Okay those of you who have been keeping tabs know that I have spend much of the last year, when not doing political commentary or book or movie reviews, reviewing many of the old time blues artists that were the passion of my youth (and still are). So this writer, who thought he had heard...
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- Posted: Jun-18-2008
Guitar Virtuoso
Lonnie Johnson is THE guitar virtuoso. He is the inventor of Jazz guitar, for God's sake! This album is made by the first three songs, which are exquisite. Johnson recorded in the '20s, '30s, '40s, '50s, and '60s, and sounded different in each decade. In my opinion, he was in his prime when...
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- Posted: Sep-02-2007
Recomendo
Todo livro sobre jazz fala sobre blues. A maioria dos escritores, n?o sendo geralmente m?sicos, limita-se a tentar nos enrolar tecendo coment?rios sobre doloridas l?grimas africanas, o sofrimento, a ira e a melancolia da alma n?bia escravizada. Citam depoimentos at?nitos daqueles que ouviram...
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- Posted: Jun-04-2007
Absolutely captivating
Wonderful slow blues. Song selection is great. A very intimate recording that goes far beyond three guys just making music. Some may find fault with the way the recording was mixed, with it's strict left and right channels, but going beyond that and listening to the raw emotion of each song...
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- Posted: Jun-29-2006
Good ol way...
Lately, i was eagering to listen to some acoustic melodic blues, and guess what? This record does the trick.I have a couple of classics on cd from Missisippi john hurt, robert johnson, john lee hooker and so on.. And of course they're all great bluesman and great sounding acoustic records, but...
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- Posted: Nov-20-2005
Heartfelt music
This album is a pleasure for any listener of good music. It gives the sensation that the performers are talking at the living room in front of the fire. It's sincere and heartfelt music. The ambient it creates is really warm, as warm and smooth are the guitars and the voice of Lonnie Johnson. I...
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- Posted: Nov-09-2001
Mellow blues
This is the first of a pair of CDs recorded in April 1960 by two great players who were just re-emerging from obscurity. Lovely guitar playing, warm and moving singing by Johnson, and a wonderful atmosphere of two old friends enjoying themselves make these disks a treasure not to be missed....
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- Posted: Jan-26-1999
this album is now operating
the cover of this album is a great symbol of friendship between some people here
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