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352 Bibliography About Lonnie Johnson Briggs, Keith. “Sam You Can’t Do That To Me” Blues and Rhythm, March 1987. “Reappraisal” of Lonnie Johnson’s musical career. Carlson, Lenny. Away Down in the Alley: The Great Blues Guitar of Lonnie Johnson. Pacific, MO: Mel Bay Publications, 1993. Contains transcriptions and analyses of Johnson’s recordings. Grossman, Stefan. with Jas Obrecht. Masters of Country Blues Guitar: Featuring Lonnie Johnson. Miami: Warner Bros. Publications, 1993. Contains transcriptions of key Johnson songs. “Country Blues” is just the series name that Grossman established. James, Steve. “Mr. Johnson’s Blues,” Acoustic Guitar 41 (May 1996): 52–60. Oliver, Paul. Conversation with the Blues. 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Includes several conversation/interview segments with Lonnie Johnson. Voce, Steve. “The Return of Lonnie Johnson” in Jazz Journal (British periodical), May 1963. Welding, Pete. “The First Jazz Guitarist Who Could Solo: Lonnie Johnson” in Guitar World, November 1984. Welding, Peter and Tony Byron, eds. Bluesland: Portraits of Thirteen Major American Blues Masters. New York: Dutton, 1991. Has a chapter on Lonnie Johnson by Chris Albertson. About Other Principal Music Figures in the Book Armstrong, Louis. Satchmo. 1954. Reprint with new introduction by Dan Morgenstern, New York: Da Capo Press, 1986. Giddins, Gary. Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2001. King, B. B. Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B. B. King. New York: Avon, 1996. King, B. B., with Dick Waterman. The B. B. King Treasures: Photos, Mementos and Music from the B. B. King Collection. New York: The Bulfinch Press, 2005. Miller, Marc H., ed. Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy. New York: Queens Museum of Art, with University of Washington Press, 1994. Teachout, Terry. Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. About Guitarists Alexander, Charles. Masters of Jazz Guitar: The Story of the Players and Their Music. London: Balafon Books/ Outline Press, 1999. Atkins, Chet. Me and My Guitars. Milwaukee: Hal Leonard, 2003. Has beautiful photos of Atkins’ guitars, besides text. Berry, Chuck. Chuck Berry: The Autobiography. New York: Harmony Books, 1987. Bibliography 353 Broadbent, Peter. Charlie Christian: Solo Flight—The Seminal Electric Guitarist. 2nd ed. Blaydon on Tyne, UK: Ashley Mark Publishing, 2003. Chapman, Richard. Foreword by Eric Clapton. Guitar: Music, History, Players. London: Dorling Kindersley, 2000. Includes good, concise sections on classical and flamenco guitar , as well as on popular music guitarists. Dance, Helen Oakley. Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story. Reprint, New York: Da Capo Press, 1987, originally published by Louisiana State University Press. Dregni, Michael. Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Gustavson, Kent. Blind But Now I See: The Biography of Music Legend Doc Watson. Tulsa, OK: Blooming Twig Books-Sumach Red Books, 2012. New edition coming soon. Guy, Buddy, with David Ritz. When I Left Home: My Story. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2012. Murray, Charles Shaar. Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and the Rock ‘n’ Roll Revolution. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989. Obrecht, Jas, ed. Blues Guitar. San Francisco: Miller Freeman, 1993. Consists of articles from Guitar Player magazine. Obrecht, Jas, ed. Rollin’ and Tumblin’: The Postwar Blues Guitarists. San Francisco: Miller Freeman Books, 2000. O’Neal, Jim, and Amy O’Neal. “Living Blues interview: T-Bone Walker.” Living Blues, no. 11, Winter 1972–1973. Poe, Randy. Skydog: The Duane Allman Story. New York: Backbeat Books, 2008. Roberty, Marc. Slowhand: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton. New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1993. Roby, Steven and Brad Schreiber. Becoming Jimi Hendrix. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2010. Sallis, James. The Guitar Players. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. Includes a chapter on “Mr. Johnson’s Blues: Lonnie Johnson.” Sallis, James, ed. The Guitar in Jazz: An Anthology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. Includes chapters by Dan Lambert, “From Blues to Jazz Guitar,” and Richard Lieberson, “The Jazz Guitar Duet: A Fifty-Year History,” that discuss Lonnie Johnson’s music. Summerfield, Maurice J. The Jazz Guitar: Its Evolution, Its Players and Personalities Since 1900. 3rd ed. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Ashley Mark Publishing, 1993. About Guitars Bacon, Tony. The Ultimate Guitar Book. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Brookes, Tim. Guitar: An American Life. New York: Grove Press, 2005. Carter, Walter. Gibson Guitars: 100 Years of an American Icon. Nashville: Gibson Publishing Co., 1994. Grunfeld, Frederick V. The Art and Times of the Guitar. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1969. St. John, Allen. Clapton’s Guitar: Watching Wayne...

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