Browsing: Eric Johanson

This summer tour kicks off with a hometown performance at New Orleans’ Bayou Boogaloo Fest, followed by dates in Louisiana & Texas, before he heads back overseas for a prominent slot at the prestigious Holland International Blues Fest, opening up for Robben Ford & Warren Haynes. 

As for his show at Evanston’s SPACE, Johanson charged out of the gates.

She doesn’t simply play the guitar, she wields it with the precision of a surgeon and the fire of Prometheus. 

Interview with Eric Johanson about ‘The Deep and The Dirty’ – out July 28th on Ruf Records!

“I think this one [Below Sea Level] has a couple of things that maybe follow a traditional structure but, I’ve always felt like the blues is a feeling and it’s not necessarily a pattern.”

A sizzling slide guitar intro pulls us into the swaggering shuffle “Down to the Bottom.”

It could have been called The Tab Benoit Comedy Hour but was just a great night of blues in Phoenix, Arizona.