Lonnie Johnson – Steppin' On The Blues (1990)

1		Mr. Johnson's Blues	2:40
2		Sweet Potato Blues	2:56
3		Steppin' On The Blues	2:52
4		I Done Told You	2:58
5		Mean Old Bedbug Blues	2:53
6		Toothache Blues — Part I	2:47
7		Toothache Blues — Part II	3:20
8		Have To Change Keys (To Play These Blues)	3:01
9		Guitar Blues	3:14
10		She's Making Whoopee In Hell Tonight	3:09
11		Playing With The Strings	2:59
12		No More Women Blues	3:00
13		Deep Blue Sea Blues	3:02
14		No More Troubles Now	3:14
15		Got The Blues For Murder Only	3:22
16		Untitled	2:46
17		6/88 Glide	2:58
18		Racketeer's Blues	3:12
19		I'm Nuts About That Gal	3:09

Guitar – Eddie Lang (tracks: 8, 9), James Johnson (tracks: 4), Lonnie Johnson
Piano – Clarence Williams (tracks: 6, 7), John Arnold (tracks: 1)
Piano [Probably] – De Loise Searcy (tracks: 2), John Erby (tracks: 3, 17)
Soloist, Guitar – Lonnie Johnson (tracks: 3, 4, 11, 16, 17)
Vocals – Lonnie Johnson (tracks: 1, 2, 5, 10, 14, 15, 18, 19), Texas Alexander (tracks: 12, 13), Victoria Spivey (tracks: 6, 7)

Groundbreaking guitar work of dazzling complexity that never fails to amaze -- and this stuff was cut in the 1920s! Lonnie Johnson's astonishingly fluid guitar work was massively influential (Robert Johnson, for one, was greatly swayed by his waxings), and his no-nonsense vocals (frequently laced with threats of violence -- "Got the Blues for Murder Only" and "She's Making Whoopee in Hell Tonight" are prime examples on this 19-cut collection) are scarcely less impressive. Johnson's torrid guitar duets with jazzman Eddie Lang retain their sense of legend over seven decades after they were cut. ---Bill Dahl, allmusic.com

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