Arpeggios For The Modern Guitarist Tabs by Will Johnson

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Will Johnson – No Ordinary Crown (full album)

Will Johnson’s newest, 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. The album was recorded over just five days in April 2022.

Will Johnson recruited trusted producer Britton Beisenherz, who tracked his last four records. For the band, he gathered a coterie of friends he “trusts with his life”. After texting the group “raw skeletal demos,” Johnson says he left much of the sonic choices to the players.

“It was like managing the ’27 Yankees; the team’s ridiculously good and I wanted their fingerprints on the record just as clear as my own.” For more than three decades, Johnson has been a steady, prolific presence in the Texas music scene. A touring member of Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, he’s also worked with Jason Molina, David Bazan, Jim James, Jay Farrar, Bob Mould, John Moreland and other iconic American songwriters. He makes folk art paintings centered on historical baseball figures, and in 2020, he published his debut novel, If or When I Call.

As much as Johnson reveres our nation’s iconography and folk traditions, he also doesn’t shy away from interrogating the uglier sides of the American experience. Throughout the record, he chronicles unsavory tourists and the hypocrisy and blind excess of capitalist society. With No Ordinary Crown, people may behave badly, and the road may get rough, but the reward is in the journey.

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