Artist	Song
Lonnie Johnson	Woke Up With the Blues In My Fingers
from Lonnie Johnson Vol. 2 (1926 - 1927) (2005)
Blind Lemon Jefferson	Prison Cell Blues
from The Complete Classic Sides Remastered: Chicago 1928 Disc C (2007)
Bukka White	Aberdeen Mississippi Blues
from The Sonet Blues Story (2005)
Charlie Christian	Solo Flight
from The Genius of the Electric Guitar (1987)
T-Bone Walker	Stormy Monday (aka Call It Stormy Monday)
from Very Rare (2005)
Jimmy Rushing	Every Day I Have the Blues
from Everyday I Have the Blues (1999)
Tampa Red	Sweet Little Angel
from Chicago Is Just That Way: CD a 1949 - 1953 (2007)
Big Joe Turner	Sweet Sixteen
from All the Classic Hits 1938 - 1952 (2005)
His Tympany Five & Louis Jordan	Let the Good Times Roll (1946 Single Version)
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Blues Rock Songbook (2003)
Mamie Smith	Crazy Blues
from Mamie Smith Vol. 1 (1920-1921) (2005)
Muddy Waters	Buryin' Ground Blues
from Muddy Waters 1941 - 1946 (2005)
Barney Kessel	Begin the Blues
from To Swing or Not to Swing, Vol. 3 (2007)
Benny Goodman	Sometimes I'm Happy
from The Centennial Collection (2004)
Sonny Boy Williamson II	Keep Your Hands Out of My Pockets
from Sonny Boy Williamson II: His Best (1997)
Jay McShann	Confessin' the Blues
from Best of the Blues - Live In New York (2005)
Les Paul	Guitar Boogie
from The Complete Decca Trios-Plus (1936-47) (1997)

Comment:

How’s [i]this[/i] for an influence, taken straight from the mouth of the King: “I grew up wanting to [i]be[/i] Lonnie Johnson.” Well, who wouldn’t? Inventor of the single-note guitar solo, Lonnie Johnson could play anything — and played [i]with[/i] everybody, including Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington — but his laid-back digit-twister “Woke Up With the Blues In My Fingers” tells you everything you need to know. Moving from the single-note solo to fistfuls at a time, Les Paul’s jet-fueled runs up and down the guitar neck in the jazzy swing of “Guitar Boogie” vaulted him to the front of the guitar god line . . . of course, since he practically [i]invented[/i] the electric guitar, [i]everybody[/i] who plays it owes him a debt. And who woulda thunk that a [i]vo-dee-oh-doh[/i]-singin’, ukelele-playin’ redhead born during Teddy Roosevelt’s administration would help shape the King of the Blues? But the favorite-slippers folksiness of Arthur Godfrey (heard here in “Ukulele Song”) made him the top-paid — and perhaps the best-loved— performer of his era, a nice-guy entertainer who, like B.B., was a consummate showman. From Blind Lemon Jefferson to Jimmie Rodgers, King sponged up pop, jazz, gospel, and beyond, transforming his music into every possible shade of blue.

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