Johnny Eaton Ottawa, Ontario
Johnny Eaton is a singer-songwriter from Ottawa, Canada "with a hundred year-old voice and a teenage attitude... if you find yourself in a Johnny Eaton song, you better look for an exit. Johnny puts good people in bad places, and he leans on them. Sometimes they break. Sometimes they break something. It always feels like the only thing that could have happened." (Jonathan Byrd) ... more
Johnny Eaton recommends:
Too Many Roads
by Brooks & Bowskill
B&B do something very weird here. It's an old-sounding record, but their chord progressions and phrasing and sound are enigmatic. Musicianship is to die for and the vocals family picnic Tang sweet.
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Black Acid Soul
by Lady Blackbird
Astonishingly good soul and jazz blended like it hasn't been since Nina Simone was doing her thing. A gorgeous record. You do your ears disservice if you never hear it.
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If you've never listened to Byrd before, this is the album to go to so you can get acquainted. One of the best and most malleable songwriters around. A true lover of music, and it shows in every tune.
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