• Eric Johanson’s ‘The Open Bayou’ Paves Its Own Road Between Blues and Rock

    Eric Johanson’s ‘The Open Bayou’ Paves Its Own Road Between Blues and Rock
    Eric Johanson has lamented in recent social media posts about a common and continuous refrain from promoters and music industry gatekeepers: He is too rock for the blues and too blues for rock.
    It’s an all too familiar but frustrating critique, particularly considering that rock doesn’t just borrow from the blues — it was born from it. The lines between the two have never been clean, because they were never meant to be. They bleed into each other naturally, instinctively, the w

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