Johnson, Dean - I Hope We Can Still Be Friends (Blue Vinyl) Anniversary) (RSD 2024)

Johnson, Dean - I Hope We Can Still Be Friends (Blue Vinyl) Anniversary) (RSD 2024)With I Hope We Can Still Be Friends, Dean Johnson makes a pact with the listener: He will sing you his truth in the most heartfelt and charming way possible, if you promise to keep an open mind. I Hope We Can Still Be Friends is essentially an anthology that bridges Johnsons earliest days as a songwriter with his present day outlook and abilities. There are songs that have been in his setlists for years, and others that will be new to fans. Each of

who assembled most of the sandpaper originals

Includes rare photos from the band's personal collection with memorabilia and collector's item images

issued by Atlantic Records in 1971

often improvising in a style similar to late-'50s John Coltrane

24 Nights: Rock features 18 songs

and it was mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound

with propulsive guitar riffs

The Urinals - I'm a Bug (1

eight months after it's first release

which earned a rare 100% rating from MelodicRock

" a quintet take featuring Miles playing muted then open trumpet and the start of a new band: tenor saxophonist George Coleman

" Julien sings almost merrily during "BACK THEN