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Mike
January 4th 2024
There are no two musicians anywhere who listen to each other and inspire one another like Johnny and Scrappy Judd. I've been hearing them at the Saxon Pub for over 10 years and they NEVER phone it in. The Fan Appreciation show at the Saxon on 12/26 was just as good as the Christmas show they did at the Saxon in 2013, when Cindy Cashdollar was still playing with them. I would not hesitate to name these guys playing together as the most exciting and emotionally moving experience of my musical lifetime. I'm still shaking my head (how do they DO that???) and smilin'.... Love, Moon Bellamy (former Bizarro)
Austin, TX@Saxon Pub
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Johnny Nicholas Biography
Make no mistake: Johnny Nicholas knows from the blues. His credentials? Impeccable. Conviction? Immeasurable. And chops? If an instrument’s got strings, keys, or reeds, rest assured he can play the hell out of it. He’s also a consummate songwriter and no slouch of a singer, either, blessed with a warm, toasty growl of a voice that can roll from rumble to croon and back again with seductive ease. In the words of kindred musical spirit Marcia Ball, he “writes instant classics and sings them to break your heart and rock your soul,” while no less of an authority than the late, great B.B. King once observed, “[Johnny] learned from some of the same guys I did and he sings and plays the real down-home blues.” A lot of those “same guys,” in fact, welcomed a young Johnny Nicholas into their homes, treating him not just as a wide-eyed acolyte of the blues, but as one of their own: “They took me in because they thought a lot more of me than I thought they did, obviously,” he marvels today, “but then later on I realized that I just have this gift, you know? I can reach deep down in those blues and get way down to the bottom like those guys. And they treated me like family.”
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