I teach this song in my Lesson Pack Volume 9 https://www.daddystovepipe.com/guitar...​ Lonnie Johnson's big hit of 1948. My version is based on the arrangement of Willie Salomon, a fine german-american bluesartist. It's an ingenious mix of Lonnie's old style and new style. The old style refers to his recordings he made between 1925-37 and uses his "fetish-tuning" drop G (aka G6 tuning, DGDGBE low to high). The new style refers to how he played from 1938 on, strumming with a flatpick in standard tuning.

Here's Willie's fine performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnnXa...​ Although Lonnie played electric guitar in the years he was rediscovered (1959-70) he recorded a very fine version of "Too Late to Cry" on an acoustic guitar while on tour with the AFBF in 1963. He used Muddy Waters' acoustic of unknown make https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDRg3...​ It's a fantastic performance, so delicate and lotsa feeling. I recorded and teach several of his postwar songs https://www.daddystovepipe.com/lonnie...​ I'm playing a 1927 Gibson L3