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  Lonnie Brooks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lonnie Brooks (December 18, 1933-) is an American blues singer and guitarist.
Brooks' style, sometimes described as "voodoo blues", includes elements of Chicago blues, swamp pop and rhythm and blues.
Brooks appeared in the movie Blues Brothers 2000.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lonnie_Brooks   (144 words)

  
 Lonnie Brooks - Biography - AOL Music
A masterful showman, the good-natured Brooks puts on a show equal to his recordings (and that's saying a lot, considering there are four decades of wax to choose from).
By the late '70s, Brooks was gaining a deserved reputation as an exceptionally dynamic Chicago bluesman with a fresh perspective.
Brooks long association with Alligator Records continued into the late '90s with the release of Roadhouse Rules in 1996, which focused more on R&B than down-home blues, and Lone Star Shootout in 1999.
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 Blues On Stage - Lonnie Brooks
Lonnie Brooks was born Lee Baker, Jr., December 18, 1933 on a small farm in rural Louisiana near Dubuisson.
Brooks forges a unique mixture of Louisiana, Texas and Chicago blues unlike anyone else on the competitive Chicago blues scene where he has reigned as one of the Windy Cities' top bluesmen over the past two decades.
Lonnie has a dynamic, singular quality to his voice that falls somewhere between hard core blues and smooth sounding soul.
www.mnblues.com /profile/profile-lonniebrooks.html   (375 words)

  
 Ronnie Baker Brooks - Media
One of the best highlights from a Lonnie Brooks show was seeing father and son’s arms all wrapped around each other while soloing at the same time.
Seeing Lonnie, Ronnie and Wayne perform together is a lot like seeing this trio at home, which is where the Brooks brothers got their first musical taste.
Lonnie said his contribution to BLUES FOR DUMMIES was tales of blues past and the people he met and were influenced by.
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 Lonnie Brooks News
Lonnie Brooks, John Primer and Joanna Connor headline the event.
Brooks is known for his 'Voodoo Blues' style, combining electric Chicago blues with the sound of his native Louisiana.
Lonnie Brooks says Chicago, where he's lived for 45 years, is still the greatest blues town in the world.
www.topix.net /who/lonnie-brooks?removemenu=who/lonnie-brooks   (373 words)

  
 Lonnie Brooks, sons play the blues, family-style
Lonnie Brooks and his two guitar-playing sons seem to be the living embodiments of the adage "the family that plays together stays together." But the patriarch of the Chicago blues family knows even the proudest papa must push his youngsters out of the nest when they're ready.
Billed as "Lonnie Brooks' 70th Year Celebration With His Family Band," Lonnie and his band will be joined onstage by both sons, who'll play minisets of their own music.
Brooks senses the same resistance to innovation today that he found when he first arrived in town.
www.suntimes.com /output/music/sho-sunday-brooks06.html   (1053 words)

  
 Metroactive Music | Lonnie Brooks
BLUES GUITARIST and singer Lonnie Brooks is laughing aloud as he explains why he's really not Lonnie Brooks--or Guitar Junior, as he was known for a spell some years ago.
An example: When Brooks was in Montreaux for the jazz festival, country star Roy Clark overheard Brooks' nimble fretwork and invited him to guest on his TV show Hee Haw.
Lonnie Brooks plays Saturday (Oct. 19) at 9pm at JJ's Blues, 3439 Stevens Creek Blvd., Santa Clara.
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 The Official Lonnie Brooks Website
Even after 40 years away from his Louisiana home, Lonnie Brooks' music is still instilled with the funky, swampy bayou rhythms of Opelousas and Lafayette, and his lyrics often speak of fl cat bones and "Mojo Hands".
Lonnie played throughout the '60s in the tough joints of the West Side, and even recorded an album for Capitol under his old name of Guitar Junior named "Broke and Hungry".
Lonnie's current endeavors include co-authoring the book "Blues for Dummies" with Son Wayne Baker Brooks, and Cub Koda.
www.lonniebrooks.com /lbbio.html   (500 words)

  
 Fox Valley Blues Society Blues News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Lonnie's blues power is so potent, it's in his genes, literally.
Brooks was also one of the first artists selected for Alligator's DELUXE EDITION in 1997.
Brooks recently collaborated with long-time Texas friends Long John Hunter, Phillip Walker (and Ervin Charles) for the Alligator release LONE STAR SHOOTOUT.
www.foxvalleyblues.org /articles/lonniebrooks-allseasons.html   (488 words)

  
 Lonnie Brooks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Lonnie Brooks coming to a small hotel in rural northern Illinois to put on a blues fest is a surprise in it's self.
Brooks decided he had enough so he hoped in a car with his buddy Sam Cooke and headed to Chicago and it's vibrant blues scene.
Bass beats pounding, Lonnie and Ronnie stepped off the stage and into the lawn in front of the most animate members of the audience and proved that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree as Ronnie actually showed up his dad.
www.concertlivewire.com /brooks.htm   (305 words)

  
 Lonnie Brooks MP3 Downloads - Lonnie Brooks Music Downloads - Lonnie Brooks Music Videos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Brooks is a passionate singer with an intense rockish guitar style.
All the promise that Lonnie Brooks possessed was realized on this album, his finest and most consistent to date.
Lonnie Brooks' pervasive 1950s bayou blues roots, laid bare and rocking hard.
www.mp3.com /lonnie-brooks/artists/243/discography.html   (601 words)

  
 Lonnie Brooks Live Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Along with his two sons, Ronnie Baker Brooks and Wayne Baker Brooks, the Lonnie Brooks family is one of the successful blues families that continues to draw enthusiastic fans wherever they play.
Brooks forges a unique mixture of Louisiana, Texas and Chicago blues unlike anyone else on the competitive Chicago blues scene where he has reigned as one of the Windy Cities' top bluesmen over the past three decades.
Lonnie's recent show at the Fine Line was another in a long succession of local appearances.
www.mnblues.com /review/lonniebrooks1-00.html   (539 words)

  
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Lonnie Brooks is one of those story-telling musicians whose tales are best heard on a back porch after a few glasses of wine.
Brooks and his current wife have also raised two sons in that time (he had two other children from his previous marriage).
Brooks' most recent album for Alligator, Roadhouse Rules, included a widely praised acoustic track, "Roll of the Dice." Could there be a whole acoustic album in the works for Brooks?
www.maximumink.com /2001/features/lonnie-brooks-8-01   (556 words)

  
 Lonnie Brooks AKA Guitar Junior at the Ponderosa Stomp
Since the late sixties he’s been masquerading as Chicago blues guitar killer Lonnie Brooks, but to fans of South Louisiana R&B, the man born Lee Baker Junior will never live down his initial reputation as Guitar Junior, Bayou Boogie Man extraordinaire.
For those lucky enough to have stuck around til the bitter end of the first Ponderosa Stomp back in 2001, when Baker/ Brooks reverted to his former identity for a power-packed blast of Gulf Coast grease that shook the rafters and dissolved the past four decades in a single instant, the man needs no introduction.
After moving to Chicago and changing his name to Lonnie Brooks, he continued to cut great records, in particular “The Frog” for the Palos imprint.
knights-maumau.com /music_more.php/123/Lonnie+Brooks+AKA+Guitar+Junior   (617 words)

  
 Wayne Baker Brooks - Experiments With The Blues
He is the youngest son of blues superstar Lonnie Brooks and has been a regular member of The Lonnie Brooks Blues Band since 1998.
Mystery is blues-based, but as Baker Brooks is a young and diverse contemporary musician, the sounds of hip-hop and rock strongly feature throughout it.
Like the blues that was handed down to him, Wayne Baker Brooks is intent on passing on his contemporary blues to a new generation.
www.bluesartstudio.at /NeueSeiten/WayneBakerBrooks.html   (862 words)

  
 Lonnie Brooks - AOL Music
Even after 40 years away from his Louisiana home, Lonnie Brooks' music is still instilled with the funky, swampy bayou rhythms of Opelousas and Lafayette,...
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 Piedmont Talent.com -Your Source for great blues and roots music for over a decade
Long before Lonnie Brooks was headlining major blues festivals and sharing stages with the likes of Eric Clapton, he was forging his bayou-swamp-music-meets-Chicago-blues-via-Texas style.
In the mid-1950s, Brooks, now known as Guitar Junior, cut a series of Gulf Coast proto-rock 'n' roll hits for the Goldband label, now considered swamp rock classics.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Brooks performed regularly in some of Chicago's toughest clubs, playing blues, rock, and R&B (and backing up strippers) for audiences composed of pimps, hookers and gangsters.
www.piedmonttalent.com /bios.cfm?ID=60   (429 words)

  
 Lonnie Brooks on Rhapsody   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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Classic showman Lonnie Brooks has been performing his mean blues guitar since the late 1950s.
Hear Lonnie Brooks and similar artists on this station.
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 Lonnie Brooks/Studebaker John & The Hawks - Chicago Blues Jam DVD - SHOP.COM
Lonnie Brooks/Studebaker John & The Hawks - Chicago Blues Jam DVD - SHOP.COM
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 Official Ticketmaster site. Lonnie Brooks tickets, dates
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 VH1.com : Lonnie Brooks : Biography - Urge Music Downloads
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Having forged a unique Louisiana/Chicago blues synthesis unlike anyone else's on the competitive Windy City scene, charismatic guitarist Lonnie Brooks has long reigned as
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 WhosWho Chicago: Lonnie Brooks : CenterstageChicago.com - Chicago City Life in Chicago, Illinois
WhosWho Chicago: Lonnie Brooks : CenterstageChicago.com - Chicago City Life in Chicago, Illinois
Eventually, though, he joined Alligator Records and became an international blues star...
He and his son Ronnie Baker Brooks (also a guitarist) played a set together at the 1996 Blues Festival.
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 Lonnie Brooks Tickets - Awesome Lonnie Brooks Tickets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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 Rhapsody Music: Download, Listen, Play & Burn Lonnie Brooks
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 Rolling Stone : Lonnie Brooks: Live From Chicago : Music Reviews
Rolling Stone : Lonnie Brooks: Live From Chicago : Music Reviews
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