| LC control no. | no 97008346 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lazy Lester |
| Variant(s) | Lester, Lazy |
| See also | For works performed by this person under other names, search also under Johnson, Leslie, 1933-2018 Thomas, Henry, 1933-2018 Johnson, Leslie, 1933-2018 Thomas, Henry, 1933-2018 |
| Located | Baton Rouge (La.) |
| Birth date | 1933-06-20 |
| Death date | 2018-08-22 |
| Place of birth | Torras (La.) |
| Place of death | Paradise (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Blues (Music) |
| Profession or occupation | Singers Harmonica players Guitarists Blues musicians |
| Found in | Blues classics, 1957-1959, p1996: container (Lazy Lester) LC in OCLC, Jan. 13, 1997 (hdg.: Lazy Lester) Blues WW, c1979 (Johnson, Leslie, aka Lazy Lester, Henry Thomas, b. June 20, 1933) New York times WWW site, viewed Aug. 27, 2018 (in obituary published Aug. 24: Lazy Lester; b. Leslie Johnson, June 20, 1933, Torras, La.; grew up in a Baton Rouge suburb; d. Wednesday [Aug. 22, 2018], Paradise, Calif., aged 85; singer, harmonica player, and guitarist whose country- and Cajun-tinged sound made him an architect of the style known as swamp blues) |
| Associated language | eng |
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