Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1959
- Works
- 40
Top works
- Fix Your Volkswagen
- Surfin' the Internet
- Cruisin' the Information Highway
- How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball
- Automotive encyclopedia. Study guide
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1911-05-08
- Active to
- 1938-08-16
27 clubacoustic bluesamericanbluescountry bluesdelta blues
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,952
- Total plays
- 14,117
Tags
bluesacoustic bluescountry bluesguitarspotify
Among the postwar generation of blues artists, Larry Johnson is one of the most devoted to the pure Delta and Texas styles of the '20s. He was born on May 15, 1938, in Fulton County, GA. His father was a preacher and his son would often travel with him from town to town. In this environment, Johnson was exposed to early blues records and he especially loved those of Blind Boy Fuller. It was Fuller's records that made Johnson pick up a guitar. After a stint in the Navy from 1955 to 1959 <a href
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Johnson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New Orleans
- Occupation
- professional wrestler
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Mass
- 105
- Image
- Sonny King headshot.png
- Height
- 186
Show 8 more facts
- date of birth
- 1945-02-08
- start of work period
- 1960-00-00
- date of death
- 2024-08-31
- end of work period
- 2024-00-00
- name in native language
- Sonny King
- birth name
- Larry Johnson
- Commons category
- Sonny King
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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