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		Short Bio - Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson (February 8, 1899 – June 16, 1970) was an American blues and jazz singer/guitarist and songwriter who pioneered the role of jazz guitar and is recognized as the first to play single-string guitar solos.Gérard Herzhaft, Encyclopedia of the Blues, 1979 Read Lonnie Johnson Bio...

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St. Louis highlights its blues heritage - Jefferson City News Tribune Online
Pub. Date - Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:35:00 GMT
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- There's a widely held belief that blues music was born in the Mississippi Delta, traveled up river to places like Memphis and then north to Chicago. Not so fast, St. Louis says. There's a renewed effort in the city to celebrate and ...

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