JOHNSON WILL - VINYL NO ORDINARY CROWN [VINYL]

Popis - NO ORDINARY CROWN [VINYL]:
Will Johnson's ninth solo album, No Ordinary Crown,
hums with palpable motion. Travelers, runners and
conductors fill its lyrics, and gesticulating storms and
emotional highs and lows seep through the instinctual
quality of its rock 'n roll performances. It's also cabled
by ephemeral momentum.
The songs were conceived in stolen moments and brief
windows of time between the responsibilities of family
and a multi-hyphenate career. The singer, songwriter,
multi-instrumentalist, painter and novelist describes the
demo process as "fairly jagged," a gathering and
stitching of audio snippets recorded via cell phone and
dictaphone over a year and half. "I finalized the songs
on short tours where I could hear my thoughts a bit
more clearly," he says.
"Somewhere along the line someone advised me to
never be afraid to hurt my characters, that I will always
be able to get them out of it," he says. "I do want there
to be these small victories and small portals of hope."
With No Ordinary Crown, people may behave badly,
and the road may get rough, but the reward is in the
journey.