The Original Guitar Hero and the Power of Music: The Legendary Lonnie Johnson, Music, and Civil Rights

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Lonnie Johnson (1894-1970) was a virtuoso guitarist who influenced generations of musicians from Django Reinhardt to Eric Clapton to Bill Wyman and especially B. B. King. This is the first full-length work on Johnson. Dean Alger answers many biographical mysteries, he also places Johnson and his musical contemporaries in the context of American race relations and argues for the importance of music in the fight for civil rights.