Johnny Dollar

John Louis Sibley (November 23, 1941 – August 29, 2006), known professionally as Johnny Dollar, was an American Chicago blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

He continued to perform in and around Chicago, but starting to suffer from congestive heart failure, which meant that further distance excursions were curtailed. On the night of November 1, 1999, Dollar was hit by a car. For three weeks he remained in a coma at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, with none of those attending to him knowing his name. He was transferred to another hospital in West Side, Chicago, when his wallet, and therefore identity, was discovered in a pile of removed clothing he was wearing at the time of the accident. When conscious, Dollar had to contend with the effects of a broken pelvis, broken arm and a head injury, the latter that affected both his memory and also left him, at times, disorientated. After months of rehabilitation, Dollar was able to take to the stage at a Thanksgiving Evening in 2000; singing and playing like a man who had had a miraculous return from the dead. Less than three months after this event, Wolf Records released Dollar's first recording in 14 years, My Baby Loves Me. The album contained a selection of covers plus a couple of original numbers. The covers included reworkings of Guitar Slim's "The Things That I Used to Do", plus "My Baby Loves Me", "That's The Way Love Is" and a R&B classic in "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right". The final track on the album was "Funky Broadway", with Dollar's best guitar work to the fore.

Johnny Dollar died in August 2006, at the age of 64.