Lonnie Johnson was a New Orleans-born guitarist and singer whose sophisticated, jazz-inflected style bridged blues and jazz for decades — he was a pioneer of the single-string guitar solo and one of the first musicians to play an electrically amplified violin. His smooth, crooning vocal delivery and intricate guitar lines influenced everyone from Delta bluesmen to the jazz guitarists who followed him. He remained a working musician into the 1960s, a living link between the earliest recorded blues and the electric guitar era it eventually produced.

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