| Lang was scooped up by Paul Whiteman
who hired many of the top jazzmen of the period. He worked in the 1920s
under the name, Blind Willie Dunn, with the renowned blues singer-guitarist,
Lonnie Johnson, who was African American. Johnson said, Lang could play
guitar better than anyone I knew; the sides I made with him were my greatest
experience. Lang probably chose the name Blind Willie Dunn because few
in those days thought a white man could play the blues. Lang died young
in 1933 from a tonsillectomy. |
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