"virtually broke." The Killer Blues Headstone project, a nonprofit organization that places headstones on unmarked graves of blues musicians, purchased a headstone for Johnson around 2014. Influence Johnson's early recordings are the first guitar recordings that display a single-note soloing style with string bending and vibrato. Johnson pioneered this style of guitar playing on records, and his influence is obvious in the playing of Django Reinhardt, T-Bone Walker and virtually all electric blues guitarists. One of Elvis Presley's earliest recordings was a version of Johnson's blues ballad "Tomorrow Night", written by Sam Coslow and Will Grosz. Presley's vocal phrasing mimics Johnson's, and many of Presley's signature vibrato and baritone sounds can be heard in development. "Tomorrow Night" was also recorded by LaVern Baker and (in 1957) by Jerry Lee Lewis. In the liner notes for the album Biograph, Bob Dylan described his encounters with Johnson in New York City. "I was lucky to meet Lonnie Johnson at the same club I was working and I must say he greatly influenced me. You can hear it in that first record. I mean Corrina, Corrina...that's pretty much Lonnie Johnson. I used to watch him every chance I got and sometimes he'd let me play with him. I think he and Tampa Red and of course Scrapper Blackwell, that's my favorite style of guitar playing." In his autobiography, Chronicles, Vol. 1, Dylan wrote about the performing method he learned from Lonnie Johnson and remarked that Robert Johnson had learned a lot from Lonnie Johnson. Some of Robert Johnson's songs, such as "Malted Milk," are seen as new versions of songs recorded by Lonnie Johnson. Discography As leader Lonesome Road (King, 1958) Blues by Lonnie Johnson (Prestige Bluesville, 1960) Blues & Ballads (Prestige Bluesville, 1960) Losing Game (Prestige Bluesville, 1961) Another Night to Cry (Prestige Bluesville, 1962) Idle Hours (Prestige Bluesville, 1962) Swingin' the Blues (Xtra, 1966) Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson Vol. 1 (Swaggie, 1967) Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson Vol. 2 (Swaggie, 1970) Mr. Trouble (Folkways, 1982) Tears Don't Fall No More (Folkways, 1982) Blues, Ballads, and Jumpin' Jazz Vol. 2 (Prestige Bluesville, 1990) The Unsung Blues Legend (Blues Magnet, 2000) As sideman Victoria Spivey, Woman Blues (Prestige Bluesville, 1962) Victoria Spivey, The Queen and Her Knights (Spivey 1965) See also List of blues musicians List of jazz musicians References Relevant literature Simon, Julia. The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson: Blues, Race, Identity. Penn