Lonnie Johnson

The Guitar Of Lonnie Johnson

In this double DVD, the first devoted in its entirety to the Guitar style of Lonnie Johnson, Ari Eisinger explores Lonnie Johnson's blues style in detail, presenting stylistic hallmarks of Johnson's playing including adiscussionof left hand fingerings, use of diminished chords and Lonnie's blues playing in the Key of D.

Ari teaches eight guitar breaks from some of Lonnie's best tunes. These include his instrumental masterpiece To DoThis YouGot To Know How, his jazzy Uncle Ned Don't Use Your Head, his evocative Woke Up With the Blues In My Fingers and I'm So Tired Of Living All Alone, Lonnie's version of the song Skip Jamesrecorded asI'm So Glad.

A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on each DVD. As well, the original old recordings of all the tunes are included.