RELEASE DATE: MARCH 5, 2021. CATALOG # 202102. UPC: 855925004585

Tracks:

01. Uncle John’s Farm (Art Johnson ITI Music Corporation BMI) 2:25

02. Corn and Taters (Art Johnson ITI Music Corporation BMI) 2:28

03. Front Porch Pickin’ (Art Johnson ITI Music Corporation BMI) 4:08

04. The Land of Broken Dreams (Art Johnson ITI Music Corporation BMI) 5:37 

05. Fade Away (Art Johnson Vihuela BMI) 4:00

06. The Vigilante (Judee Sill Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp BMI) 4:00

07. (Getting) Too Thick To Quick (Art Johnson Vihuela BMI) 2:56

08. National Stardom (Art Johnson Vihuela BMI) 3:10

09. The Mountain Song (Art Johnson ITI Music Corporation BMI) 4:30

10. Send Your Lovin’ (Art Johnson ITI Music Corporation BMI) 4:11

11. Train Song (Art Johnson Vihuela BMI) 4:43

12. The Marriage (Art Johnson ITI Music Corporation BMI) 4:50

Art Johnson was and is still a man of many talents that far exceed anything that could be transcribed on paper.  He has left a legacy yet to be fully appreciated by being a composer, a multi-talented musician, and a published storyteller of several books.

Saddled by Polio and Parkinson, he strived to use these inflictions as reinforcements to his talents. A friend to many that would spend hours on end talking about life, death, and everything in between.

Here in this album is Art at his best non-jazz songs, that blends country and rock.  They were written in a time of change in the early 70s, when life for many of us was freer. 

All tracks were composed by him except for one, that he performed with approval, from his dearest friend, the late Judee Sill.  They had a musical and spiritual relationship during the latter part of her life, when he and fellow Gas, Food and Lodging musicians, Lynn Blessing and Bill Plummer played a major role in her last recording.

All tracks were overdubbed by Art in his studio in Silver Lake California and twice mastered.  The final master of this recording was by the great Robert Cartwright who exquisitely channeled Art’s voice and each instrument.