Sally Decker - In The Tender Dream - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Vloeimans / Goudsmit - First Floor [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/01/1994

This third album of singing by Art continues to showcase his talents for songwriting as well as playing a variety of instruments. Art Johnson was and is still a man of many talents that far exceed anything that I could transcribe 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.Knowledgeable of many subjects, he was an avid reader that ranged from spiritual to science and was never without an opinion on whatever was being discussed.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.

The third full-length from L.A. band Bad Suns, Mystic Truth gets it's title from a piece of art that vocalist Christo Bowman stumbled upon while visiting London's Tate Modern on tour. Created by Bruce Nauman in 1967, the neon-and-glass piece spells out a possibly paradoxical statement in blue spiraled cursive InchThe True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths.Inch Right from opener InchAway We Go,Inch Bad Suns reveal the timeless sensibilities at the heart of Mystic Truth. With it's soaring vocals, majestic piano melodies, and fiery guitar tones, the song unfolds as a brightly anthemic battle cry. Inch'Away We Go' was mostly inspired by us growing up and really being adults for the first time, and trying to make sense of all that,Inch says Bowman, who co-founded Bad Suns at age 17. InchIt's about learning how to make decisions for yourself, and sometimes just going for something and blindly trusting that it's going to work out.Inch