A Better World Somewhere, by Orville Johnson

A Better World Somewhere

by Orville Johnson

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1.	You're More Than A Palace To Me 03:12	info	buy track
2.	The Six O'clock Train And The Girl With Green Eyes 03:19	info	buy track
3.	Worried Blues 05:10	info	buy track
4.	Sometimes It Snows In April 05:32	info	buy track
5.	It Don't Make Sense If You Can't Make Peace 04:53	info	buy track
6.	Hope To Live 04:04	info	buy track
7.	There Must Be A Better World Somewhere 05:44	info	buy track
8.	John Hardy 04:32	info	buy track
9.	House Of Memories 03:02	info	buy track
10.	Death Is Only A Dream 05:55	info	buy track
11.	Can't Keep From Cryin' 03:50	info	buy track

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This is another project born of the Covid years. As with Dream Your Own Dream, my last release, I needed to find ways to keep my own musical dream alive while enduring the shut down of all live performances, no touring, no gathering. I'm lucky that I was still able to teach online (and still am, if you need any lessons!) but I need to play, too. Dream Your Own Dream was mostly made up of my own original music and a few songs by friends that I'd begun recording over the years and needed to be finished.

A Better World Somewhere includes a couple like that, House of Memories and The Six O'Clock Train And The Girl With Green Eyes, but the rest are all tunes that I love and recorded during the pandemic period. The album has a melancholy feel with a bit of uplift in the middle with Steven Jesse Bernstein's Hope To Live. It's reflective of a lot of my feelings during our enforced loneliness, but I'm still, when it comes right down to it, hopeful. I know there must be a better world somewhere. Let's create it together...best wishes for us all...oj

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released July 9, 2022

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Orville Johnson Seattle, Washington

Orville Johnson was raised in the Illinois heartland. He acquired his love of singing as a youth in the fundamentalist Pentecostal church he attended and, when he later began playing guitar and dobro, responded to the roots music that surrounded him by learning to play the blues, bluegrass, rockabilly, and country music that are all part of the mosaic that characterizes his own mongrel music. ... more

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