Louisiana-based guitarist and harpist Leslie Johnson got the nickname “Lazy Lester” in 1957, ostensibly because Excello Records producer Jay Miller thought it suited Johnson’s relaxed style, ...

Lazy Lester, a singer, harmonica player and guitarist from Louisiana whose country- and Cajun-tinged sound made him an architect of the style known as swamp blues, died Wednesday at his home in ...

Better Than: The canned blues playing over the PA between sets — by a long sight. Admittedly, when I first heard about this show coming up, I had to look up who Lazy Lester (Leslie Johnson) was, but ...

Leslie Carswell Johnson, aka Lazy Lester, a phenomenally gifted blues artist who performed and recorded all around the U.S. but spent his later life in Northern California, reportedly died on Aug. 22 ...

When Lazy Lester visits Baton Rouge this weekend to play the Baton Rouge Blues Festival, he’ll be home again in swamp blues country. South Louisiana is the land where the swamp blues began, and Lester ...

Multiple tributes are planed at this weekend’s Baton Rouge Blues Festival to honor Leslie Johnson, the swamp blues pioneer better known as Lazy Lester. The singer, songwriter, harmonica player, ...

Lazy Lester got his break playing harmonica on a recording for Lightnin’ Slim. Producer JD Miller discovered that Lester could also sing and play guitar and drums. Those talents earned him recording ...

KXCI (91.3-FM) has some classic blues in store for this year’s House Rockin’ Blues Review at El Casino Ballroom on Friday. Lester, 81, was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2012 for his ...

Leslie Johnson, the architect of Louisiana swamp-blues who was better known as "Lazy Lester," died Wednesday afternoon at his home in Paradise, California. He was 85. In the 1950s and ’60s, Johnson ...

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