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Fingertip Ship
Label: Metro Blue
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Hearts of Palm
2. Glidepath
3. Tony Bennett
4. Mother's Day
5. Thirteen Year Emergence Suite: Bluefield
6. Thirteen Year Emergence Suite: Get Funked
7. Thirteen Year Emergence Suite: Cicada
8. Thirteen Year Emergence Suite: The Filing Song
9. Thirteen Year Emergence Suite: Jaco Morocco
10. Thirteen Year Emergence Suite: Synthetic Blues
11. Thirteen Year Emergence Suite: Heart of the Beast
12. Thirteen Year Emergence Suite: Prometheus Meets the Digital Age
13. Thirteen Year Emergence Suite: Empitsu No Uta
Richard Leo Johnson: Language
by AAJ Staff
Picking up where he left off with his solo debut Fingertip Ship, Richard Leo Johnson takes his solo guitar lines through a variety of sounds and styles, backed vicariously by a talented group of musicians which includes drummer Matt Wilson, Govt. Mule guitarist Warren Haynes and a brief guest spot by Johnson’s ten-year-old daughter Tess.
Richard Leo Johnson: Fingertip Ship
by AAJ Staff
Self-taught and self-tuned, guitarist/photographer Richard Leo Johnson takes listeners on a thirteen-part voyage on his Fingertip Ship. Though he pays tribute to Jazz legends Tony Bennett, Stephane Grappelli, Django Reinhardt and Jaco Pastorius and explores the feelings of Pink Floyd and The Who, Johnson’s technique, style and delivery are unlike any other performer. Often hitting the ...
Richard Leo Johnson: Fingertip Ship
by Matthew S. Robinson
Self-taught and self-tuned, guitarist/photographer Richard Leo Johnson takes listeners on a thirteen-part voyage on his Fingertip Ship. Though he pays tribute to Jazz legends Tony Bennett, Stephane Grappelli, Django Reinhardt and Jaco Pastorius and explores the feelings of Pink Floyd and The Who, Johnson’s technique, style and delivery are unlike any other performer. Often hitting the ...
Richard Leo Johnson: Language
by Jim Santella
Because of its location, Nashville did not become a center for jazz or blues, as did Memphis and St. Louis. Instead, the Tennessee hub has become a city known for quite a few things in general and its country-western music theme in particular. Arkansas-born guitarist Richard Leo Johnson, 44, has spent some time in Nashville and ...
Richard Leo Johnson: Language
by AAJ Staff
The revival of Blue Note Records has been little short of phenomenal when one considers that the legendary label was moribund by the early 1980's until various believers like Bruce Lundvall applied their resources and genius to the challenge of revival. One part of the jazz juggernaut that Blue Note has become lies in the visionary ...
Richard Leo Johnson: Fingertip Ship
by AAJ Staff
It sounds like hyperbole, but I mean it – you have heard these techniques before, but you haven’t heard them like this. If you have, I consider you privileged. Richard Leo Johnson is a photographer from Arkansas; his pictures are part of museum collections. The guitar stayed in his living room while a technique slowly took ...
