Eric Johnson - Bloom
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Free Music Notes for Bloom
Free Music Review: Full of versatility, experience, variety...
Hit: 5 Stars
The Good
"Bloom" is loaded with fuzzy blues rock licks and sweet melody lines. "Summer Jam" has all the spirit of the season with its fevered pace and playful guitar techniques. Johnson's vocals are just as smooth as his guitar skills on the brighter cover version of Bob Dylan's "My Back Pages". Eric uses Frampton-like guitar effects on "Good to Me". "Sea Secret" encompasses the quiet calm of being deep below the sea. Eric's subtle licks and runs emit the feelings you may experience observing the sea life around you.
"Sad Legacy" is Johnson's anti-war song. It has a catchy bounce that's enhanced by some great piano work. Eric shows off his appreciation for Middle Eastern musical culture on "Cruise the Nile". On "Tribute to Jerry Reed", Johnson breaks out some country style rhythms and licks. "Your Sweet Eyes" is a touching ballad that Eric sings with plenty of heart and emotion.
The Bad
Nothing
The Verdict
Eric Johnson delivers another great album full of versatility, experience, variety, and impressive guitar work.
Free Music Review: The Bloom CD
Hit: 5 Stars
The Bloom CD IS the best yet. This incredible, underated, misunderstood talent--- should have been born in the 60's(when record contracts were easy to get) virtuoso of the electric and acoustic guitar as we know it.... Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you...Eric Johnson.
Finally, some cuts from Austin City Limits! I have had the privilege to see Eric three times in concert. In Tempe, AZ. last year, I couldn't make it, but my friend did and he played for an audience of about 150.
This wonderful, shy, yet approachable person continues to create and share his talent to others who are aspiring to understand the guitar and it's many facets.
And in my estimation, a humble person as well. Just look at the G3 concert DVD. I was in Mesa, AZ. when they had that jam, and you can see, Eric gives way to Vai and Satriani...so they have the highlight when they worked together.
I can't say enough about Eric and I can tell you if you don't purchase this CD, you will be missing out big time!
Dan Craig
Arizona
Free Music Review: Scatterd Virtuosity
Hit: 5 Stars
EJ remains, in my opinion, one of the two guitarists by whom others should be measured (Steve Morse being the other). This is owing to his sheer technical ability (which many guitarists like Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and others possess) coupled with a feel, tone and general musicality which most of the other virtuosos lack. As always, his playing on this CD is incredible. The CD is recorded well and sounds great. If there is one knock, however, it is that EJ is a master of so many styles of guitar playing, that at times the CD feels disjointed (probably why he breaks it down into three segments). He begins with a very EJ-like boogie, then rolls into the more Satriani-esque, followed shortly by what I think is a great, uptempo cover of Dylan's My Back Pages. But later, EJ hits us with some Grand Ole Opry-like country, neoclassical, and even Pat Metheny-like jazz. Don't get me wrong, EJ gets it right and then some every step of the way, it is just that when listed to from start to finish, as a whole, the CD does not flow as well as say Venus Isle.Free Music Review: Vivaldi On Aviation Fuel
Hit: 5 Stars
With both the title, Bloom, and the musical approach there is a 'lift of the cap' acknowledgement to Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Inspirational, uplifting, and celebratory of the spectrum of life.
There the similarity ends for Eric Johnson's intergalatic guitar rifts make this classical music on steroids.
Hailing from the home of some of rock's more 'down and dirty' folk, Johnson's Texas birthplace has to be in some other part of the universe. Such is the clean, full frontal force of his exemplary playing and crafting of the story behind Bloom.
Dedicated to his father, David O Johnson, in thanks for 'giving me the joy of music', Bloom starts out with the title track and full warning that Johnson is getting down to business. His version of Bob Dylan's My Back Pages is superb....as his Your Sweet Eyes. The rest....searing and scintillating.
Whoever designed the cover art also needs to take a serious bow--no doubt inspired by the music.
Can't wait for Eric's next visit to planet Earth.
Free Music Review: A MONSTER of a cd from Eric!
Hit: 5 Stars
I love this cd!! This is the most musical of all his recordings, at least for me. There are echoes of Stevie Wonder, Keith Jarrett, Ralph Towner, some Rundgren and Metheny also, but it is all very original. Gorgeous tunes, so well played. And Eric sounds as if he has been seriously studying bop phrasing for the last few years and now there just isn't any style this guy can't play way convincingly(come to think of it, I did hear him do a perfect version of Wes Montgomery's arrangement of "Down Here On the Ground" years ago). The Jerry Reed tune is honkin' country pickin' and he has played this in his live set for years. The guitar heroics are kept to a minimum on this record, and everything he plays sounds perfect for the song, there is no seeming attempt to impress with chops. Yet every fill is perfect, some much better than I've heard Carlton or Ford do for a very long time! On top of it all, Eric Johnson is one of the nicest cats I've ever met and I hope this record is a success for him cause he deserves it! Buy this immediately.