About
Chicago Blues singer/guitarist John Littlejohn's reputation among his peers and blues aficionados is done an injustice by his meager recorded output as a bandleader. Littlejohn began making a name for himself around Gary, Ind., and Chicago in the early 1960s with his liquid-toned slide guitar work and impassioned singing; he worked as a sideman for Donny Hathaway and cut his first record as a leader in 1968. Never incorporating rock and Funk as his peers Buddy Guy or Son Seals did, his sound remained resolutely rooted in the Chicago Blues of the '50s and '60s. Littlejohn was a mainstay in the Windy City's Southside clubs, and he recorded sporadically, cutting around a half dozen records before his death in 1994.
- Tom Heyman
