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Lazy Lester
Torras, United States • 1933-06-20 – 2018-08-22
Lazy Lester is credited on 90 releases across 38 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1958–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
90
Pressings credited
38
Albums
8
Decades active
39
In collections
Biography
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. Best known for regional hits recorded with Ernie Young's Nashville-based Excello Records, Lester also contributed to songs recorded by other Excello artists, including Slim Harpo, Lightnin' Slim, and Katie Webster. Cover versions of his songs have been recorded by (among others) the Kinks, the Flamin' Groovies, Freddy Fender, Dwight Yoakam, Dave Edmunds, Raful Neal, Anson Funderburgh, and the Fabulous Thunderbirds. In the comeback stage of his career (since the late 1980s), he recorded new albums backed by Mike Buck, Sue Foley, Gene Taylor, Kenny Neal, Lucky Peterson, and Jimmie Vaughan.
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Credited work
90 releases · 38 albums · active 1958–2023
- Performance · 78
- Other credits · 37
- Production · 1
Studios: Sumet-Bernet Sound Studios · King Snake Studios · Beaumont · Muscle Shoals Sound Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- The Kinks
- Lonesome Sundown
- Lightnin' Slim
- Slim Harpo
- Uncle John Turner
- John Schooley And His One Man Band
- Little George Sueref And The Blue Stars
- Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets
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