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Larry Johnson

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Also known as Sonny King

American professional wrestler (1945–2024)

Person · Open Library

Born
1959
Works
40

Top works

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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

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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

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data

    · 2016 · cited 31,669x

  2. Geant4—a simulation toolkit

    · 2003 · cited 20,927x

  3. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,517x

  4. Optical Constants of the Noble Metals

    · 1972 · cited 18,054x

  5. Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)

    · 2008 · cited 17,478x

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Wikidata facts

Mass
105
Image
Sonny King headshot.png
Height
186
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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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