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Auch Michael Grays „Encyclopedia Bob Dylan“ enthält einen eigenen Artikel über Lonnie Johnson:
„… 1960 the very period in which Dylan was able to catch Johnson in and around Greenwich Village. This was when Dylan had encountered Johnson first: for Johnson was one of those treasures of the pre-war world who was still around in the 1960s, when Dylan arrived in New York — and for VICTORIA SPIVEY’s label the two men even appeared on the same album, Three Kings & the Queen (recorded in early 1962 and released in late 1964). Dylan had watched Lonnie Johnson’s fingers at work on the guitar — Johnson had introduced and/or popularised a number of techniques as a younger man, and still knew his way around the strings in a super-professional, individual way, and Dylan was acutely aware of his value as a guitar mentor. In Chronicles Volume One, in 2004, Dylan gives what appears to be a deliberately mystifying account — an account that purports to be a detailed explanation but in fact explains nothing that any other musician has been able to claim to understand — of significant things Johnson taught him in person: indeed a whole new style of playing, apparently, ‘something more active with more definition of presence’, that Dylan says rescued him when he felt marooned by an inability to relate to his own repertoire in the second half of the 1980s …“
Victoria Spiveys Album Three Kings & the Queen habe ich bislang noch nicht zu Gehör bekommen. :roll: – Kann hier jemand mehr über ihr Album sagen?
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