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PopmuseumHis Bobness hat in seiner „Theme Time Radio Hour“ über „Days of the Week“ „Great Lonnie Johnson“ 4:10 Minuten Reverenz erwiesen, indem er dessen Biografie skizziert und „Tomorrow Night“ gespielt hat (das unter anderem auch von Elvis, Sonny Burgess, Jerry Lee Lewis und Dylan gecovert wurde).
Hier gibt’s die Abschrift von Dylans Lonnie Johnson Würdigung:
The Annotated “Days of the Week” Theme Time Radio Hour – Episode 53 (Part 2)
http://www.dreamtimepodcast.com/2010/02/annotated-days-of-week-theme-time-radio_05.html
Bob Dylan: Our next performer is truly one of the greats. He signed with Okeh Records in 1925. Between 1925 and 1932, he cut an estimated 130 tracks. He cut blues, guitar duets with Eddie Lang, recorded with Louis Armstrong’s Hot 5 and Duke Ellington. And those aren’t even the records he’s most famous for. In the late ’30s and ’40s he recorded for the Bluebird label, great blues tracks like, “He’s a Jellyroll Baker.” In 1947 he joined King Records, and that’s where we pick him up today.
Einspielung: “Tomorrow Night” – Lonnie Johnson
Bob Dylan: That was Lonnie Johnson and “Tomorrow Night.” Lonnie fell on hard times in the ’50s. He was working as a janitor in Philadelphia. Elmer Snowden, the jazz banjo player, discovered him. In an amazing comeback he made some great records for Prestige in the early ’60s and toured with the blues revivalists. But he couldn’t catch a break. In 1969 he was struck by a car in Toronto and died a year later from injuries resulting from that accident. The great Lonnie Johnson and “Tomorrow Night” here on Theme Time Radio Hour.
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