Johnny Flynn.
This past Wednesday we drove down to Chapel Hill in North Carolina to see Johnny Flynn who is on a solo tour of the eastern seaboard in support of his new CD Been Listening. Johnny usually plays with a band (The Sussex Wit), but he is doing this tour solo with his nephew as roadie since they don't have the funds to tour together with all of their equipment etc.
I had a great talk with Johnny before the show and we talked about the state of the music industry (independent music shops to be specific), their first and only show in Edmonton thus far (at the 2009 Folk Fest), the first bear that he saw on this tour aha, and also his hopes to come back and play the Edmonton Folk Fest again.
In our current pop culture society, driven by flavour of the month next-great-things that fill the bars and the clubs, it is rare to find music that seems to transcend all of those things to create something that could have come out now, 5 years ago, 10 years ago, or 30 years ago and still be good.
I truly hope that Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit will continue to produce music and to be able to travel and share this music with their fans. If you have not heard them before I highly recommend giving their music a chance, and I would also recommend purchasing either of their first two albums.
Good night, and happy Halloween!
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