(REALISTIC REVIEWS #101) John Andrews “Johnny Was e.p.”

Kevin Magee
Sep 7, 2018 · 1 min read

If you don’t like your e.p.’s to kick off announcing that some of you are going to hell then I don’t know what we’re doing here….obviously leading into a song called “Pray” is exactly where you’d expect to go next, a nice breezy bluegrass number.

“Don’t Let Me Fade Away” slows it right down and “Wolves” brings it back to a less civilised pace and the references to “hell, fire and brimstone” bely the unenviable horror of modern existence and “going to work every day and hell every night”.

“Love Letter” kicks off with arguably the most romantic line ever written “I love you like I love music” and brings the pace back down before “Love Sick” helps the e.p. to a sleazy end. I’m not sure what he lights up at the end but it’s well deserved and Johnny really was great.

It’s a lot more country bluegrass than it is bluegrass blues but sure see what you reckon yourself over at https://open.spotify.com/album/4w8A4yeWwfXZ2ZvC9KMEJ3?si=8N87S618TVOh0Nn7L1QARg

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