John Long was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1950 & was first exposed to the music he’d make his life’s work not long after. By the late 1950s John was absorbing the sounds of Jimmy Reed, Buster Brown, Muddy Waters, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Junior Parker, and all the rest of the R&B and jump blues of the day, & working on recreating those sounds with his own guitar.

"You have to love the music enough to want to live inside it and use it for a personal means of expression, and you have to respect it enough to stay inside the framework, right down to the least slide slur on the guitar. All of this Long does, and he doesn't attempt any kind of postmodern update of the country blues, which, ironically, makes what he does all the more postmodern, since by changing little, Long makes the style sound almost radically new. Long doesn't sample the old country blues; he inhabits it, which is why he isn't a revisionist in any shape or form."
-- www.johnlongblues.com Inactive as of 2/1/18