曲目リスト

1. This Love of Mine
2. September Song
3. Don't Cry Baby
4. Solitude
5. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
6. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
7. St. Louis Blues
8. New Orleans Blues
9. Careless Love
10. Danny Boy [Guitar Solo]
11. Backwater Blues
12. My Mother's Eyes
13. Prisoner of Love
14. There'll Be Some Changes Made
15. Jelly, Jelly
16. Summertime
17. Rockin' Chair [Fade Out]

商品の詳細

• Amazon.co.jp ランキング: #620243 / ミュージック
• 発売日: 2000-07-11
• ディスク枚数: 1
• 形式: Best of, Import, from US
• 寸法: .20 ポンド

Amazon.com's Best of 2000
This disc was recorded in Bernie Strassberg's living room with a reel-to-reel, and Lonnie Johnson's elegant vocal tone and masterful command of soul-soaked roots music transform the lo-fi surroundings into a mainline of unfiltered beauty. As children trample by amid slamming doors and random pieces of conversation, Johnson's voice calmly weaves together threads of rhythm and blues that would put most 48-track studio recordings to shame. --Matthew Cooke

From Amazon.com
Forty years after beginning a remarkable recording career spanning multiple generations and genres, New Orleans-born blues and jazz guitar virtuoso Lonnie Johnson sat in a friend's living room in Queens, New York, with an acoustic guitar and a reel-to-reel recorder. The songs he performed that night make up this enchanting set of classics that adds yet another dimension to the great musician's legacy. Here, we find Johnson at age 66, his plaintive voice and guitar in stunning form, mining a 20th-century musical landscape for folksy treasures as diverse as Bessie Smith's "Back Water Blues," Duke Ellington's "Solitude," Hoagy Carmichael's "Rockin' Chair," and Kurt Weill's "September Song," with "Danny Boy" and "Careless Love" also among the surprises. Although it was recorded in 1965 on crude equipment, it's easy to see from this essential CD why Lonnie Johnson deeply affected so many American musical immortals, from Robert Johnson, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis to Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan. --Alan Greenberg