#Johnny Irion

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The Hellish Torture of Picking a Favorite Song in 2024: A Rant by Dr. J

Here’s the thing about picking a favorite song in 2024—it’s a damn Sisyphean task, one that makes you want to tear out your hair, break your phone, and maybe even burn down your local record store in a fit of existential frustration. Don’t do it. We need physical music stores now more than ever. I mean, what is even a “favorite” song anymore? Do we even have favorite songs in 2024, or are we…

[bennettmarko]

I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts When he drawed that color line Here at his Beach Haven family project

Beach Haven ain't my home! No, I just can't pay this rent! My money's down the drain, And my soul is badly bent! Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower Where no black folks come to roam, No, no, Old Man Trump! Old Beach Haven ain't my home!

I'm calling out my welcome to you and your man both Welcoming you here to Beach Haven To love in any way you please and to have some kind of a decent place To have your kids raised up in. Beach Haven ain't my home! No, I just can't pay this rent! My money's down the drain, And my soul is badly bent! Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower Where no black folks come to roam, No, no, Old Man Trump! Old Beach Haven ain't my home!

- Woody Guthrie

[bostonfly]

Mike was a friend of friends when I lived in LA. I was thinking about his songwriting & musicianship then went on YouTube...

[musiconspotify]

Stinson & Irion

Working My Way Down (2023) … started years ago …

#MikeStinson #JohnnyIrion

[songsofprotestpeacerevolution]

Johnny Irion "Old Man Trump"

In 1950, Woody Guthrie moved with his family into the Beach Haven apartment complex in Brooklyn. He would soon write: "My worst enemy is my landlord that tries his best to make me and my family live a life of race hate just because he is so sickly, he chose to live his own sad life that way." His landlord's name was Fred Trump, father of Donald Trump. For the first time, in partnership with the Guthrie family, these recently discovered lyrics were set to music by California rock band U.S. Elevator. Here, frontman Johnny Irion (who is married to Woody's granddaughter, Sarah Lee Guthrie) performs an acoustic rendition of "Old Man Trump" with Brian Stollery of the Brooklyn Americana group Bad Faces.

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My Favorite Albums of 2024

Previously: 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014

It's been another amazing year for new music! I've written about several of these artists at Rolling Stone, including profiles of This Is Lorelei, Allegra Krieger, Thus Love, and Lip Critic, and reviews of the Common/Pete Rock and Sophie albums. (As always, you can find all my recent stories at my RS author page.) Without further ado, here are my 40 favorite albums released in 2024!

Charli XCX, Brat (Atlantic)

This Is Lorelei, Box for Buddy, Box for Star (Double Double Whammy)

Waxahatchee, Tigers Blood (Anti-)

Fontaines D.C., Romance (XL)

Allegra Krieger, Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine (Double Double Whammy)

Kim Gordon, The Collective (Matador)

Kendrick Lamar, GNX (pgLang/Interscope)

MJ Lenderman, Manning Fireworks (Anti-)

Common and Pete Rock, The Auditorium, Vol. 1 (Loma Vista)

Thus Love, All Pleasure (Captured Tracks)

Cindy Lee, Diamond Jubilee (Realistik Studios)

The Smile, Wall of Eyes/Cutouts (XL)

Soccer Mommy, Evergreen (Loma Vista)

Lip Critic, Hex Dealer (Partisan)

Mannequin Pussy, I Got Heaven (Epitaph)

Anycia, Princess Pop That (UnitedMasters)

Young Miko, att. (Capitol)

Hello Mary, Emita Ox (Frenchkiss)

Doechii, Alligator Bites Don’t Heal (TDE/Capitol)

Mdou Moctar, Funeral for Justice (Matador)

Future and Metro Boomin, We Still Don't Trust You (Epic/Republic)

Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department (Republic)

Cavalier, Different Type Time (Backwoodz Studioz)

Hinds, Viva Hinds (Lucky Number)

Rauw Alejandro, Cosa Nuestra (Sony Latin)

Johnny Irion, Sleeping Soldiers of Love (Blackwing)

GIFT, Illuminator (Captured Tracks)

Been Stellar, Scream from New York, NY (Dirty Hit)

Sleater-Kinney, Little Rope (Loma Vista)

Ekko Astral, Pink Balloons (Topshelf)

Beyoncé, Cowboy Carter (Parkwood/Columbia)

Jack White, No Name (Third Man)

Bnny, One Million Love Songs (Fire Talk)

Sinkane, We Belong (City Slang)

Sabrina Carpenter, Short 'n Sweet (Island)

Sophie, Sophie (Transgressive)

Brutus VIII, Pure Gluttony (Ramp Local)

Schoolboy Q, Blue Lips (TDE/Interscope)

May Rio, Elegant Ensemble (DPI)

Sinaka, Kema (La única compañía)

[americanahighways]

Song Premiere: Lisa Michelle Anderson “Devil on My Back”

Song Premiere: Lisa Michelle Anderson “Devil on My Back” @Lisa_michelle_anderson @americanahighways #devilonmyback @johnnyirion #newmusic2025 #gettosomewhere #songpremiere

Lisa Michelle Anderson – “Devil on My Back” Americana Highways is hosting this premiere of Lisa Michelle Anderson’s song “Devil on My Back” from her forthcoming album Get to Somewhere, due to be available on April 4. Get to Somewhere was produced by Johnny Irion, and mixed by Paul Kolderie and G. Winnard. Musicians on “Devil on My Back” are Lisa Michelle Anderson on vocals; Johnny Irion on banjo,…

[kevinjmann]

UKI: Episode 285 is now here on Mixcloud

This episode is featuring:

1. Cassandra - Serenade

2. Downtown Patriots - Said And Done

3. Mike Stinson & Johnny Irion - Brand New Love Song

4. Webb Dalton Music - Better Man

5. Olivia De Melo - Mess

6. Belle? - Girl Don`t Fight

7. MS PUIYI - Shackle

8. Jimena Arroyo - The Weirdos Song

9. Javier Da Luz - Tocala

10. MICA - Distance

11. Modern Day Outlaw - DevilScorned

12. He Said She Said - Time Well Spent

13. RachelDara - Broken Friendships

14. The New Division - Zenith

15. Project Earthbridge - Made Of Stars

16. Daniel Gunn - Hold Me Back

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Pop Radio UK - www.popradiouk.co.uk - Monday 8pm , Tuesday 8pm and Wednesday 8pm

Bunka Radio (Columbia) - https://www.bunkaradio.com/ - Monday 1am

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YOUR LOCAL INDEPENDENT AND UNSIGNED MUSICIANS - PLEASE BUY THEIR MUSIC - KEEP THE SCENE ALIVE!

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Queen Sarah Saturday - Seems

[thisfrontierneedsheroes]

I launched a kickstarter for my next album. It will be produced by Johnny Irion! I am very excited. I hope you can support it and Please share! xo Brad 

[misfitwashere]

51 Facts about Arlo Guthrie and Alice’s Restaurant

By Doug Most, Boston Globe Staff

The song is 18 minutes 34 seconds long, give or take a minute depending on his pace.

The length of the song is the exact same length as the gap in the Nixon Watergate tapes, and Guthrie has often quipped that the song may explain that silence in the infamous tapes.

The song was too long to be released on one side of a 45 rpm single.

Guthrie had just started classes at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Mont., in September 1965 when the incident happened over Thanksgiving break.

He planned on studying forestry, but never finished his first year.

He was born in Coney Island, N.Y., in 1947.

He is one of four children born to Marjorie (Greenblatt) Mazia and folk legend Woody Guthrie.

He was 13 when he gave his first public performance.

In Boston, he was a regular performer at Club 47 in Harvard Square along with Joan Baez.

Today Club 47 is Club Passim.

In 1991, Guthrie purchased the Stockbridge Trinity Church where Alice and Ray Brock lived and where many of the events that inspired “Alice’s Restaurant” took place.

Guthrie and his friend Ricky Robbins dumped the trash on that fateful day in Stockbridge because the Great Barrington dump was closed for the holiday.

They were fined. And ordered to pick up their trash. The exact amount of the fine has varied in stories over the years from $20 to $25 to $50.

The church is now The Guthrie Center, a nonprofit devoted to helping people with HIV and other afflictions, including Huntington’s disease, the illness that most contributed to Woody Guthrie’s death.

One of Arlo Guthrie’s first lessons on the harmonica came from Bob Dylan, who visited his house looking for Woody.

In the 1969 movie, “Alice’s Restaurant,” the cop is played by the real Officer Obie, William Obanhein, from the story.

The blind judge in the movie “Alice’s Restaurant” is played by the real-life blind judge in Guthrie’s case, James Hannon.

One of his inspirations for believing that such a long story could succeed as a song was Bill Cosby, whom he had seen tell long rambling tales on stage that kept audiences riveted.

He has to relearn the song anytime he’s going to perform it. “It’s not like riding a bike,” he told Rolling Stone magazine.

Guthrie’s biggest hit was “City of New Orleans.” “Alice’s Restaurant” never cracked the Billboard Hot 100. The album peaked at 17.

Theresa’s Stockbridge Café is now in the space where Alice and Ray ran their restaurant.

Alice and Ray Brock are divorced.

Alice Brock owns an art studio in Provincetown, where she paints.

Albert DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler, once wrote Alice Brock, she has said, asking if her restaurant would consider selling the choker necklaces he was making in prison. She declined.

A version called “Alice’s Rock & Roll Restaurant” he released in 1969 lasts 4 minutes long and reached 97 on the Billboard singles chart.

He does not listen to “Alice’s Restaurant” when it’s on the radio during Thanksgiving. And neither does his family.

All of his children play instruments and sing, and some of his grandkids, too.

Guthrie first performed live on a New York radio station in 1967.

He rides a 2001 Indian motorcycle.

The original lyrics contain a slur against homosexuals that today might bring a fine from the FCC to any radio station that plays a song containing it. But the song is played uncut and no fines are incurred.

“Music will be your best friend.” This was a line his father told him when he was very young.

One of Guthrie’s daughters, Sarah Lee Guthrie, is married to Johnny Irion, whose great uncle is John Steinbeck.

His son, Abe, will play the keyboards on the upcoming tour with him.

More than 75,000 photographs from Guthrie’s life have been collected for the tour and many of them will be projected on a screen throughout his concerts.

When Guthrie was 18, he did his first concert with Pete Seeger at Carnegie Hall, a tradition they continued almost every year until Seeger died in 2014.

One of Guthrie’s sisters, Cathy, died in a home fire when she was 4.

The red VW microbus Guthrie talks about in “Alice’s Restaurant” has officially been “relegated to history,” according to a post on his Facebook page this summer.

Woody Guthrie died in October 1967, only one month before his son released the song that would make him famous.

His song “Massachusetts” was adopted by the state Legislature in 1981 as the state’s official folk song.

The inscription on the guitar of Woody Guthrie, a notorious peace activist, read: “This Machine Kills Fascists.”

Arlo Guthrie’s music lineage goes beyond his father Woody. His grandfather Charlie was a court clerk in Oklahoma, a painter and a singer.

Around 2005, Guthrie became a registered Republican voter. He told The New York Times, “to have a successful democracy you have to have at least two parties, and one of them was failing miserably. We had enough good Democrats. We needed a few more good Republicans. We needed a loyal opposition.”

In that same Times interview, he said: “I thought I would be governor of Massachusetts. I stood on a pile of my old albums and said, I’m the only one with a record to stand on.”He says it took him about a year to write “Alice’s Restaurant” because he had to live through the experiences “one at a time and add them to the little song.”

His mother was a dance teacher at Indian Hill camp in Stockbridge.

His father was Protestant, his mother was Jewish, and he was raised Orthodox. In 1977 he converted to Catholicism.

His grandmother was a Yiddish poet named Aliza Greenblatt.

He was taught Hebrew for his bar mitzvah by Meir Kahane, the controversial American-Israeli rabbi who later founded the Jewish Defense League and was assassinated in New York City in 1990.

His full name has an unusual story. His mother read to him from a series of children’s books called “Arlo Books” about a Swiss boy named Arlo. But because she and Woody were concerned their son would hate the strange name growing up, they tacked on the middle name Davy, in case he preferred to use that. Davy was a nod to Davy Crockett.

When he was in sixth grade, he walked into school and heard kids singing his father’s hit, “This Land Is Your Land,” and he realized he didn’t know the words. He quickly learned them.

When he was asked about the divisive 2016 election year, he responded: “There’s certainly a wide variety of opinions out there, but I think the overwhelming feeling is that as a nation we have moved from a government of, for and by the people to one that is of, for and by outside interests. People react differently to that common feeling in all the ways we see reflected in the opinions expressed. My own feeling is, we will get our country back, but it’s going to take a little longer than one election cycle.”

[washdayradionetwork]

I know the feeling, because I've been on both sides of it.

Here are Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion with "In Lieu Of Flowers".

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Mike Stinson & Johnny Irion - Ponderosa Pine (Indie Rock)

🕑 Lesedauer: 1 min / 📷 CTTO / Mike Stinson & Johnny Irion Offizielles Erscheinungsdatum: 03.02.2023 Mit ihrem neuen Song 'Ponderosa Pine' bringen uns die beiden US-amerikanischen Künstler Mike Stinson & Johnny Irion aus Austin, Texas, einen ziemlich coolen Indie Rock Sound, der auf eurer Playlist keines Falls fehlen sollte. Direkt aufgefallen ist uns der satte und vollmundige Gitarren Sound, sowie die Einflüsse aus Country und Americana, die den Stil prägen. Die Melodien sind sehr einfach zu hören, lässig und lockern die Stimmung mächtig auf.   Kurz gesagt. bei 'Ponderosa Pine' handelt es sich genau um die Art von Musik, die ich in meinem Lieblings Pub gerne hören möchte. Überzeugt euch direkt selbst: Melodie: ★★★★★ | Produktion: ★★★★★ | Arrangement: ★★★★☆ | Energie: ★★★☆☆ |  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0tTxniS3IGvv8LFkjseftl Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnny_irion/ Text: Adrian

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Rocky Dawuni and Angelique Kidjo to perform at the LEAF Festival in October

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Rocky Dawuni and Angelique Kidjo to perform at the LEAF Festival in October

The event returns after a two-year hiatus from October 20th – October 23rd in Black Mountain, North Carolina.

The 50th LEAF Festival features a 2022 lineup topped by Angélique Kidjo, Rising Appalachia, Rocky Dawuni and DakhaBrakha. The event was initially slated for May 2020 but was postponed due to the pandemic. The event will be held at Lake Eden in Black Mountain, North Carolina on October 20 – 23.

  Watch “Woara” Official Video by Rocky Dawuni:

  LEAF Festival’s Solid Gold 50th Festival has the theme “Legends of Africa.” The event returns to full scale this fall and will celebrate the music and culture of Africa with Kidjo and Dawuni among artists representing the continent. Donna The Buffalo, Chatham County Line, Johnny Irion, Chinobay, Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, Jordan Scheffer, KalimbaMan Kevin Spears and King Garfield are just a few additional acts set to perform at LEAF this fall.

“For the 50th Festival, we invited artists who had come to LEAF before and made a significant impact through their message, music or work with community youth,” explained LEAF Global Arts founder Jennifer Pickering. “As we curate each LEAF, we seek to create a journey to places, cultures and experiences through the music and arts. LEAF creates a platform and connection for powerful voices often underseen.”

  In addition to music, LEAF will host performing artists, visual artists, outdoor activities and present camping options. Tickets are on sale now. Buy LEAF Festival 2022 tickets via www.theleaf.org.

  (Source: Jambase.com)

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The creative energy was off the graph at the Outpost today. @johnny_irion and @timbluhm jammed some tunes. Why? @grant.ch of @blackwing had stopped by a year ago and we all became instant friends. Hearing that The Doors and Eagles jammed in the shop back in the day. (Mama Cass / Mona’s and Papa’s among others lived next door a couple decades ago and used the Outpost for lots of jam sessions) Grant is part of Blackwing pencils and motived to bring a couple of his favorite musicians by for a jam session now. Why still? Johnny Irion is John Steinbeck’s great nephew and John. (Yes that one) used Blackwing pencils to write some of those classic novels we read. Blackwing is keeping the creative energy alive and today was part of it. We are so stoked to be immersed in the music scene and part of today. Incredibly amazingly awesome day. #blackwingpencil #blackwing #unpredictyourjourney #johnnyirion #topanga #music #timbluhm #themotherhips #johnsteinbeck #steinbeck