Welcome to the Official Site in Memoriam of Lonnie Knight Through the Years
Lonnie Knight
December 14, 1948 - May 7, 2017
A half-century retrospective of the legendary guitarist, singer-songwriter and performer.
"Sometimes, an artist manages to take all the good things he’s done in
his career – every lesson he’s learned, every good lick he’s been
inspired to play, every emotion he’s had – and distills them into
something that surpasses all he has done before."
David Hanners - Pulitzer Prize winning writer
THE STORY
ABOUT THE ARTIST
“When he sings of ‘major truths in minor keys’… we know not only what he means, but how he feels.”
– Scott Alarik
Singer-songwriter Lonnie Knight may joke that “Legendary is just another way of saying ‘…been around a long time,’” but the lanky Minnesotan was one of those rare musicians who truly earned the title Legendary. Continue reading…
ABOUT THE PROJECT
In the words of Patti Patton – Lonnie’s partner and project producer:
Long before Lonnie’s cancer diagnosis, I said I wanted to make an album comprised entirely of Lonnie performing his originals, including all the lyrics. Lonnie and I were planning that project when his fight with cancer was lost. Without Lonnie, of course, that dream was not to be realized. Continue reading…
