Martin Johnson
@martinjohnson
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Joined: Sep 8, 2019
Last seen: Jan 26, 2026
Topics: 4 / Replies: 47
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RE: Andy Burnham...

Whatever his policy views our Andy is a very slick political operator who knows the value of maintaining his own brand. We probably will never know wh...

19 hours ago
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

@joe-nathan Here’s link to a chat I had with Ian.  

2 days ago
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RE: Bob Weir

@richardparkinson Not as weird as Tucker Carlson also being a Deadhead.

7 days ago
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7 days ago
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

@joe-nathan Sam Bush recorded a cover of “Ballad for a Soldier” a few years back.

7 days ago
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

@joe-nathan I love Donna The Buffalo. Got to know them through Jim Lauderdale’s “Wait ‘Till Spring”.

7 days ago
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

@joe-nathan Sorry Joe, I meant to say Doyle Bramhall II’s dad played with Marc Benno in the ‘70s on an album not released by A&M at the time, “Cra...

7 days ago
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

Lost in the mists of time, but periodically I keep coming back to Marc Benno’s “Ambush” album. Trivia, Stevie Ray’s dad was a member of Benno’s band f...

1 week ago
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

@joe-nathan That is the beauty of the power music has to invoke memories and feelings.

1 week ago
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

@joe-nathan That’s a band I haven’t heard mentioned for a long time., I remember their self-titled second album from 1972. I thought it was a bit too ...

1 week ago
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RE: Introducing "Americana"

While I may have been flippant with the Schrodinger’s Cat analogy, there is a lot of truth in the statement that Americana can be a very individual th...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Introducing "Americana"

And whatever you do, Paula, don’t try and define Americana. It is a bit like Schrodinger’s Cat, every artist/album either is or is not Americana but i...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Emmylou interviewed in The Guardian

Once GP showed her the way, Emmylou was one of the handful of artists who could walk that fine line that meant she appealed to the country music fan a...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Which artists do you wish you'd seen?

@markamericana Echo’s of Hendrix’s “Little Wing”in parts. I will admit that their cover of the Spencer Davis Group’s “I’m A Man” in ‘69 and their own ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Which artists do you wish you'd seen?

@markamericana Mark, your honesty has forced me to remind everyone that Leon Russell used the Chicago horn section on his Americana album. So, maybe t...

3 weeks ago
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