Lee Baker Jr. (aka Guitar Jr. and Lonnie Brooks) was born December 18, 1933 in Dubuisson, Louisiana. Lee was encouraged to play music by his grandfather who played banjo. He didn't start playing guitar seriously until he was in his early 20s and living in Port Arthur, Texas. Rapidly assimilating the licks of B.B. King and Long John Hunter, he landed a gig with zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier. In 1957 he began his own recording career with the influential swamp-pop ballad "Family Rules" for Goldband Records. The young rock & roller, then billed as Guitar Junior, enjoyed more regional success on Goldband with the rocking dance number "The Crawl" (later covered by the Fabulous Thunderbirds). The late blues scholar Mike Leadbitter wrote that "it was songs like these that established Goldband Records as a professional concern."

Selected Recordings by Guitar Jr.
45-8190 / "The Crawl" b/w "Now You Know"
	"The Crawl" / streaming mp3 * streaming realaudio "Now You Know"
FC-12038 / Bluesville
	"Please"
FC-12538 / Swampland Boogie from the Bayous of Louisiana
	"Tell Me Baby"