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BLUES: Blues-Rock, ROCK: Modern Rock

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I was stunned my the success of Nothing Tasteful. I thought I'd put together a pretty good album considering it only took five days to record. My favorite song during the recording session was Caffeine Overdrive. Real nice driving, rocking beat, screaming guitar, everything I'm known for. Of course that one has received very little attention so far. My first positive feedback came on New Artists Radio. I punched in my name in a search engine and found out I'd made the NAR Top 40 chart. I was throughly stunned to find out the song that hit was Layinonthefloor. It is a quirky little blues number that really debated putting on the CD. In fact about a month after I cut the CD I wished I hadn't chosen it. About a month after that I found out it was at #33 after being #37 the week before. I followed it up the chart from #29 to #21 then #17 and then in the top ten and then the top five and finally it peaked at #2. There was like a thousand songs on NAR and mine was voted number 2!!! I was bummed when it didn't make it to number one but I guess I'll have wait for that to happen. Paul at Midnight Special Blues radio really liked a different song, the only other song with vocals which is called Cant Take It. He put that on the playlist for about two months and then pulled it out of the rotation. About two months after that he sent me an email saying he'd put it back in the playlist because he couldn't take not hearing it. That there was something "Lenonesque" about it. That's a real compliment. One of my favs on the CD is Cheeseball Blues. That's a reference to myself because I just don't take myself that seriously. I mean you listen to my recordings and you can just tell I'm a go with it kind of guy. Some people want to be in control of everything but for me it's all about getting out of the way and just going with the flow. That song was played on KZSU, the Stanford Radio Station down in California. That week Nothing Tasteful was voted 244 out of the top 360 CDs played on the station. That probably doesn't seem like much but considering they played the song one time and people voted for the CD really stoked me out. I mean I was going up against the likes of Eric Clapton and Ziggy Marley and people voted for me. You gotta be kidding. That kind of lit a fire under my rear and I've been back in the recording studio and going out and playing gigs again. I had a personal tragedy last year when my mother came down with lung cancer and that took a lot of the wind out of my sails. But I'm back at it now and it feels real good. Look out world I'm coming for you!!!
Johnnie Mustang played with Sharon Thorpe's Lost City in Hollywood.