Though Lofton was born with a limp (from which he derived his stage name), he actually started his career as a tap-dancer. Lofton moved on from tap-dancing into the blues idiom known as boogie-woogie and moved on to perform in Chicago, Illinois.
With his distinctive performance style, Lofton found himself a mainstay in his genre: His first recording was in April 1935 for Vocalion Records with guitar accompaniment from Big Bill Broonzy. He later went on to own the Big Apple nightclub in Chicago and continued to record well into the late 1940s, when he retired. Lofton lived in Chicago until he died from a blood clot in his brain in Cook County Hospital in 1957.
Lofton was an integral part of the boogie-woogie genre in Chicago. Some of his more popular songs include: "Strut That Thing", "Monkey Man Blues", "I Don't Know" and "Pitchin' Boogie". His talent was likened to that of Pinetop Smith and other prominent boogie-woogie artists including: Meade Lux Lewis, Cow Cow Davenport and Jimmy Yancey.
Volume 1
01. Strut That Thing
02. Monkey Man Blues
03. Policy Blues
04. Brown Skin Girls
05. You Done Tore Your Playhouse Down
06. Crying Mother Blues
07. Streamline Train
08. It's Got To Be Done
09. Juicy Mouth Shorty
10. Sweetest Thing Born
11. When The Soldiers Get Their Bonus
12. Traveling Blues
13. Streamline Train
14. I Don't Know
15. Mistaken Blues
16. Pitchin' Boogie
17. Mercy Blues
18. Had A Dream
19. Streamline Train
20. I Don't Know
Volume 2
01. Pine top's boogie woogie
02. More motion
03. Sweet tooth
04. Sixes and Sevens
05. Clarence's Blues
06. Lofty Blues
07. House Rent struggle
08. Juice Joint
09. Salty woman blues
10. Blue Boogie
11. Streamline train
12. I don't know-II
13. Policy Blues
14. I don't know
15. The Fives
16. Deep end blues
17. In the mornin'
18. early blues
19. I dont know no.2
20. Streamline train 143
