Lonnie Brooks

Lonnie Brooks is an American blues singer and guitarist. The musicologist Robert Palmer, writing in Rolling Stone, stated, His music is witty, soulful and ferociously energetic, brimming with novel harmonic turnarounds, committed vocals and simply astonishing guitar work. Jon Pareles, a music critic for the New York Times, wrote, He sings in a rowdy baritone, sliding and rasping in songs that celebrate lust, fulfilled and unfulfilled his guitar solos are pointed and unhurried, with a tone that slices cleanly across the beat. Wearing a cowboy hat, he looks like the embodiment of a goodtime bluesman.

Brooks was born in Dubuisson, Louisiana. He learned to play blues from his banjopicking grandfather but did not think about a career in music until he moved to Port Arthur, Texas, in the early 1950s. There he heard live performances by Clarence Gatemouth Brown, TBone Walker, B.B. King, Long John Hunter and others and began to think about making money from music. Clifton Chenier heard Brooks strumming his guitar on his front porch in Port Arthur and offered him a job in his touring band.

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