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Lonnie Johnson with Elmer Snowden – Blues & Ballads
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Title: Lonnie Johnson with Elmer Snowden – Blues & Ballads
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1960, R&B, Jazz-Blues, New Orleans, Louisiana / New York City, New York
Matrix #: BVLP 1011
Condition: VG+, sounds amazing, RARE
Cultural Facts:
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Studio Lore: Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder’s Englewood Cliffs studio in April 1960—an intimate, stripped-down session built around guitar dialogue and space.
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Scene Ecology: Elmer Snowden hadn’t made a commercial record in decades; this session marked a rare late-career return beside a younger-generation blues star.
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Personal Struggle: Lonnie Johnson’s career collapsed into poverty; he was famously “rediscovered” in 1959 while working a day job, restarting his recording life late.
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