https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/10/27/chuck-johnson/ Whether composing for film or creating records of windswept, spectral pedal steel, Chuck Johnson imbues his music with a sense of mystery and dynamic tension. His latest album is…
https://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/724112281658621952/dust-volume-nine-number-seven Chuck Johnson — Music from Burden of Proof (All Saints) Chuck Johnson has long been a master of eerie pedal steel atmospherics, building shadowy cloudscapes out of shifting, resonating…
Original article here Chuck JohnsonBalsams Chuck Johnson Oakland, California Balsams Chuck Johnson GO TO ALBUM Merch for this release:Compact Disc (CD), Vinyl LP, Cassette Along with serving as a mile marker…
Playing to the pedal steel’s strengths of subtlety, The Cinder Grove’s mood slides toward grief without any hard signaling. The restorative serenity of Balsams may have transmitted a sense that “everything’s going to…
Original article Underground scenes like noise and vaporwave are reaching for their ten-gallon hats, musically speaking – and soothing their pets in the process April Clare Welsh Tue 9 Jun…
Original article here. Golden RetrieverChuck Johnson Rain Shadow Jonathan Sielaff, Matt Carlson, and Chuck Johnson share an apparent aversion to sharp edges and hard surfaces. For more than a decade, Sielaff and…
There is an old Norse myth that says the great northern glaciers stored energy until they burst with fluorescent light, creating the Aurora Borealis. Saariselka is inspired by the meeting…
Peter Margasak’s 40 favorite albums of 2017, numbers 40 through 31 Chuck Johnson, Balsams (VDSQ) I'm a big fan of Bay Area guitarist Chuck Johnson—I've enjoyed his expansive acoustic fingerstyle music as well…
2017 in review: Journeys in Post Rock, Experimental Folk, & Electronica Chuck Johnson – Balsams[VDSQ] http://www.vdsqrecords.com https://chuckjohnson.bandcamp.com/album/balsams This is pedal steel like you’ve never heard before – abstract and vaporous, infused…
BEST MUSIC OF 2017 Viking's Choice: The Year In Cathartic Screams And Meditative Drones Chuck Johnson Labradorite Eye Chuck Johnson often writes for solo acoustic guitar, but lately has been stretching…
The Top 12 Bay Area Music Releases of 2017 8. Chuck Johnson, Basalms (VDSQ) Though trained as an electronic musician, Oakland artist Chuck Johnson has earned a reputation as a so-called "American primitive"…
Uncut Magazine has included Balsams on their Best Albums of 2017 list. And the track "Riga Black" is on the CD that accompanies the January 2018 print issue. 23 CHUCK JOHNSON Balsams…
Chuck Johnson: Balsams by John Adamian on August 09, 2017 Something is happening. Americana has gone fully cosmic. This record of dreamy and ethereal, ambient, pedal-steelmusic brings to mind William…
Chuck Johnson: September 8, 2017 Three Lobed / WXDU Hopscotch Afternoon Jamboree (Raleigh, NC) October 1, 2017 By acidjack As a multitalented musician — a soundtrack composer, rock guitarist, and solo…
Chuck Johnson — Balsams (VDSQ) Chuck Johnson, a composer and musician out of California, has left behind the time-keeping picking structures of picked American primitive guitar and headed for the…
Chuck Johnson Crafts a Peaceful Pedal Steel Paradise with His Latest LP, Basalms By Noah Rawlings Chuck Johnson CHUCK JOHNSON Wednesday, September 6, 7:30 p.m., $12 Nightlight, Chapel Hill www.nightlightclub.com Chuck…
Interview: Chuck Johnson and His Otherworldly Pedal Steel Guitar By Saul Wright - August 14, 2017 10 Photo by Andrew Paynter Chuck Johnson isn’t new to this. But his new…
ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC: ANTHONY PASQUAROSA’S “ABBANDONATO DA DIO NAZIONE”; MARK MCGUIRE’S “IDEAS OF BEGINNINGS”; CHUCK JOHNSON’S “BALSAMS” The Vin Du Select Qualitite imprint has a narrow, precise remit: limited-run, lovingly…
