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Leslie Johnson (June 20, 1933 – August 22, 2018), known as Lazy Lester, was an American blues musician who sang and played the harmonica and guitar. In a career spanning the 1950s to 2018, he pioneered swamp blues, and also played harmonica blues, rhythm and blues and Louisiana blues.
Lazy Lester (* 20. Juni 1933 in Torras, Louisiana als Leslie Johnson; † 22. August 2018 in Paradise, Kalifornien [1]) war ein US-amerikanischer Mundharmonikaspieler . Biographie. Als Kind arbeitete er an einer Tankstelle, als Holzfäller und in einem Geschäft, wo er seine erste Harmonika und Little Walters "Juke" erwarb.
American blues musician who sang and played the harmonica and guitar. Born: June 20, 1933 in Torras, Louisiana. Died: August 22, 2018 in Paradise, California. In a career spanning from the 1950s to 2018, he pioneered swamp blues, and also played harmonica blues, rhythm and blues and Louisiana blues.
Back when blues was king and South Louisiana was the breeding ground for a blast of some of the most memorable American music ever recorded, at the heart of it was Lazy Lester. Those days are gone, and so too are most of its luminaries. And yet Lester carries the tradition almost single-handedly around the world several times over each year. As ...
24. Aug. 2018 · Lazy Lester, a singer, harmonica player and guitarist from Louisiana whose country- and Cajun-tinged sound made him an architect of the style known as swamp blues, died on Wednesday at his...
22. Aug. 2018 · Swamp blues vocalist and harp-man of the 1950s and '60s who earned an impressively long revival beginning in the 1980s. Read Full Biography. STREAM OR BUY: Active. 1940s - 2010s. Born. June 20, 1933 in Torras, LA. Died. August 22, 2018 in Paradise, CA. Genre. Blues, Pop/Rock, R&B. Styles.
26. Aug. 2018 · Lazy Lester, the Louisiana bluesman who became one of the prime forces in the establishment of the swamp blues style, died on Wednesday (22) at the age of 85. The multi-instrumentalist,...
