# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johnnie-bassett
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:25:31.350Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johnnie-bassett"
name: "Johnnie Bassett"
slug: "johnnie-bassett"
description: "Johnnie Alexander Bassett was a Detroit-based American electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Working for decades primarily as a session musician, by the 1990s Bassett had his own backing band. He released seven albums in his lifetime. He cited Billy Butler, Tiny Grimes, Albert King, B.B. King and especially T-Bone Walker as major influences."
tagline: "American electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter (1935–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Johnnie_Bassett_and_band.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1935-10-09"
deathDate: "2012-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.537833333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "جوني باسيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D9%89_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "جونى باسيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnie_Bassett"
    title: "Johnnie Bassett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnie_Bassett"
    title: "Johnnie Bassett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnie_Bassett"
    title: "Johnnie Bassett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnie_Bassett"
    title: "Johnnie Bassett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnie_Bassett"
    title: "Johnnie Bassett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%82%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8"
    title: "Бассетт, Джонни"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cb1ad954-7adc-4b35-b554-ff54d5714f7e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1341497"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump