Lonnie Johnson: Complete Recorded Works 1925 ~ 1932 (5 CD, 1991/FLAC)

 

Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson (February 8, 1899 – June 16, 1970) was an American blues and jazz singer, guitarist, violinist and songwriter. He was a pioneer of jazz guitar and jazz violin and is recognized as the first to play an electrically amplified violin.


Volume 1
01 - Mr. Johnson`s blues
02 - Falling rain blues
03 - Very lonesome blues
04 - When I was lovin` changed my mind blues
05 - Sun to sun blues
06 - Bed of sand
07 - Lonesome jail blues
08 - No good blues (James "Steady Roll" Johnson, vocal)
09 - Newport blues (James "Steady Roll" Johnson, vocal)
10 - Love story blues
11 - Nile of Genago
12 - Five o` clock blues
13 - Johnson`s Trio stomp
14 - Woman changed my life
15 - Lonnie`s got the blues
16 - Good old woman
17 - A good happy home
18 - Baby you don`t know my mind
19 - I have no sweet woman now
20 - You drove a good man away
21 - Ball and chain blues
22 - You don`t see into the blues like me
23 - There`s no use of lovin`
24 - Baby, please tell me
25 - I`m gonna dodge the blues just wait and see

Volume 2
01 - Oh! doctor blues
02 - Sweet woman, see for yourself
03 - To do this, you got to know how
04 - South bound water
05 - Treat `em right
06 - Baby, will you please come home
07 - I done tole you
08 - Steppin` on the blues
09 - A broken heart that never smiles
10 - Black cat blues (Helen Humes, vocal)
11 - Worried woman`s blues (Helen Humes, vocal)
12 - Superstitious blues (Joe Brown, vocal)
13 - Cotton patch blues (Joe Brown, vocal)
14 - Blackbird blues (Raymond Boyd, vocal)
15 - Unkind mama (Raymond Boyd, vocal)
16 - Four hands are better than two
17 - Woke up with the blues in my fingers
18 - Back water blues
19 - I love you, Mary Lou
20 - Sweet woman you can`t go wrong
21 - Mean old bed bug blues
22 - Lonesome ghost blues
23 - Fickle mamma blues
24 - Roaming rambler blues
25 - Stay out of Walnut Street alley

Volume 4
01 - I`m so tired of living all alone
02 - Way down that lonesome road
03 - Crowing rooster blues
04 - Broken levee blues
05 - Wrong woman blues
06 - New black snake blues - part 1 (duet with Victoria Spivey)
07 - New black snake blues - part 2 (duet with Victoria Spivey)
08 - Toothache blues - part 1 (duet with Victoria Spivey)
09 - Furniture man blues - part 1 (duet with Victoria Spivey)
10 - Furniture man blues - part 2 (duet with Victoria Spivey)
11 - Toothache blues - part 2 (duet with Victoria Spivey)
12 - When you fall for some one that`s not your own
13 - Careless love
14 - Two tone stomp
15 - Have to change keys to play these blues
16 - It feels so good - part 1 (duet with Spencer Williams)
17 - It feels so good - part 2 (duet with Spencer Williams)
18 - I want a little some o`that what you got (duet with Jimmy Foster)
19 - Death is on your track (duet with Spencer Williams)
20 - Jet black blues (Blind Willie Dunn's Gin Bottle Four)
21 - Blue blood blues (Blind Willie Dunn's Gin Bottle Four)
22 - Guitar blues
23 - A handful of riffs
24 - Blue guitars

Volume 5
01 - Bull frog moan
02 - It feels so good - part 3 (duet with Spencer Williams)
03 - It feels so good - part 4 (duet with Spencer Williams)
04 - You can`t give a woman everything she needs
05 - Sundown blues
06 - From now on make your whoopee at home
07 - Mr. Johnson`s blues no. 2
08 - Baby please don`t leave home no more
09 - The new fallin` rain blues
10 - You done lost your good thing now - part 1 (with Victoria Spivey)
11 - You done lost your good thing now - part 2 (with Victoria Spivey)
12 - Deep minor rhythm stomp
13 - Midnight call (blues)
14 - Hot fingers
15 - Blue room blues
16 - She`s making whoopee in hell tonight
17 - Another woman booked out and bound to go
18 - Once or twice (duet with Spencer Williams)
19 - Monkey and the baboon (duet with Spencer Williams)
20 - Wipe it off (duet with Clarence Williams)
21 - Death Valley is just half way to my home
22 - Headed for Southland

Volume 6
01 - I got the best jelly roll in town - part 1
02 - I got the best jelly roll in town - part 2
03 - She don`t know who she wants
04 - Don`t drive me from your door
05 - The dirty dozen (duet with Spencer Williams)
06 - Keep it to yourself (duet with Spencer Williams)
07 - I just can`t stand these blues
08 - Deep sea blues
09 - The bull frog and the toad (duet with Spencer Williams)
10 - The monkey and the baboon - part 2 (duet with Spencer Williams)
11 - Long black train
12 - I have to do my time
13 - No more troubles now
14 - Sam, you can`t do that to me
15 - You`re getting old on your job (duet with Clara Smith)
16 - What makes you act like that? (duet with Clara Smith)
17 - You had too much (duet with Clara Smith)
18 - Don`t wear it out (duet with Clara Smith)
19 - Got the blues for murder only
20 - Let all married women alone
21 - Southland is all right with me
22 - Blues is only a ghost