Barroom country, produced by Scott Mathews. CD includes beautiful duets with Californian Queen of the Honky Tonks Heather Myles and Grand Ol'Opry star Ernie Ashworth.

12 MP3 Songs in this album (37:42) !
Related styles: COUNTRY: Traditional Country, COUNTRY: Modern Country

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JJJohns biography

Born and raised in the Netherlands, in close proximity of bubbling Amsterdam, JJ Johns proved to be a natural for the music scene. While at the age of 14 he already performed with the Blue Rocking Strings, only 16 years old, he became one of the founding members of The Devotions and toured Holland, Germany and Belgium after recording the band's first 45âs. When a few members were drafted, the band broke up and JJ kept himself alive playing various local bands, including for a short stint with the George Baker Selection (âLittle Green Bagâ). After various musical experiments, JJ returned to the music he loved most, Country Music.
March 2000 his journey, leading to the CD âNothinâ Wrong With Meâ, began when he was coupled with veteran producer/songwriter/multy-instrumentalist Scott Mathews (scottmathews.com). Scott worked with all time greats as Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell and Roy Orbison, to name a few. The recording took place at the studioâs of Exâpression, College for Digital Arts In Emeryville California.
Two songs on the CD were co-written by producer Scott Mathews.
Since the release, February 2001, JJ Johns started touring again. Most of the gigs were in Holland and Belgium to where the Johns family had moved, but also in Germany JJâs perfomances were well appriciated.
Following the succes of this first CD JJ Johns started recording for the 2nd CD in November 2002, again with producer Scott Mathews and this time in Scott's own âTiki Town Studioâs in Mill Valley, California.
This second CD entitled âSongs That Make The Jukebox Playâ contained two wonderful duets.
One with Grand Olâ Opry veteran Ernie Ashworth (earnieashworth.com) âThe Alcohol Of Fameâ and the other, âUnited We Fallâ, with charming Californian Country singer Heather Myles (heathermyles.com).
âSongs That Make The Jukebox Playâ has been released March 2003 and turned out to be a favorite of DJâs all over the world, resulting in a #16 position in the âWorld Wide Independent Artist Chartâ.
JJâs duet with Heather Myles even reached the #1 position in the âE.M.S. European Independent Tracks Chartâ.
A lot of the songs for both the CD's JJ found his on obscure dusty 45's digged up in old American Juke Boxes.
In 2005 the third JJ Johns CD was released, which was the start of a whole new phase in JJ's life. Not only because the CD was recorded in Belgium rather than in the USA, but also for finding a producer he kept it close to home and asked his 'brother in arms', the Dutch country singer Nick McAlley (nickmcalley.com). Also, right after finishing the recordings for this CD, JJ and his wife Marja decided to move houses again and went all the way to the south of Portugal where they found the house of their dreams, situated in the middle of the Algarve, overlooking the beautiful city of Silves.
Besides earning his living as a C&W singer, he and Marja also started a new career by means of renting out rooms at "JJJohns' Vivenda Yucca" for bed & breakfast (jjjohns.com/vy.htm).
While on his first two CDâs one wonât find any well known songs, for this third CD however, JJ went looking for the big âGoldenâ C&W standards, the #1 hits, the songs everybody can hum along to. The title of the CD is âOnly Goldâ and it covers itâs load well.