White guitarist Salvatore "Eddie Lang" Massaro from Philadelphia was the first guitar virtuoso, and composed and recorded pieces such as Black And Blue Bottom (september 1926), Stringin' The Blues (november 1926), Doin' Things (june 1928) and Wild Cat (june 1928) with Joe Venuti, and composed and recorded with black blues guitarist Lonnie Johnson the first guitar duets, such as Two Tone Stomp (november 1928), Blue Guitars (may 1929), Guitar Blues (may 1929) and A Handful Of Riffs (may 1929).
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