Healing time
Ruthie Foster
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Reviews (3)
Blues rock review
d. 21. Oct. 2022
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Fidel Beserra
d. 21. Oct. 2022
"In summary, Hi-Fi Drive By is a roots-oriented album focused on reclaiming and celebrating the core and already long established elements of blues and rock, and while this approach may seem a bit raw and straightforward for some, the magnetism and quality of Johnson's passionate approach are undeniable".
Americana highways
d. 19. Oct. 2022
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John Apice
d. 19. Oct. 2022
"There's nothing revolutionary here but an artist serious enough to reshape, if not reinvent a decades-old genre & really put a buff & shine to it. Johnson also refrains from showboating that may compromise the boogie-woogie value by summoning the melodic ghosts that put back the roll in rock and...".
DownBeat
2023 January
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Frank-John Hadley
2023 January
" ... he regulates his expressive engine productively on old-school rockin' showpiece "'68 Coupe Deville" and nine more quality originals. An above-average singer and guitarist, Johnson follows a familiar Southern blues-rock-soul road until unexpectedly swerving off course with closer "The Band." It's a fantastic place, divided between Curtis Mayfield soul turf and south-of-the-border territory inhabited by jazz-savvy horn players and others from St. Louis along with Johnson himself, seeming to possess all manners of Santana-ish magical powers".