An Evening with Johnny A

There will be plenty of food and beverages at the event so no coolers are allowed. The Preble County Historical Center is located at 7693 Swartsel Road in Eaton, Ohio. Call 937-787-3256 or email preblecountyhistoricalsociety@frontier.com. Bring your blankets, cushions, or lawn chairs to enjoy a beautiful summer evening with Johnny A at The Amphitheater!

Johnny A. has one of the most eloquent voices in modern music - and he doesn't sing a note. Instead, he channels joy, love, humor, sadness... every aspect of the human experience, through his guitar.

Only the finest musicians have the ability to capture the nuances of life in sound, which puts Johnny A in a very exclusive group of six-stringers that includes Les Paul, Wes Montgomery, Jeff Beck, Chet Atkins, and Jimi Hendrix. The secret is his blend of melody, sonic definition, technique and that indefinable-yettangible quality called soul. And he's eloquently shared that secret on the CDs Sometime Tuesday Morning (2001), Get Inside (2004), and the instructional DVD Taste, Tone, Space (2006). All the virtues of Johnny A.'s playing are in abundant display on One November Night.

Johnny has shared the stage with B.B. King, Les Paul, Jeff Beck, JJ Cale, Etta James, Dr. John, Joe Satriani, Peter Frampton, Steve Vai, George Thorogood, Eric Johnson, Sonny Landreth, Joe Bonamassa, and Huey Lewis and the News.  Performances at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, Japan's Fuji Rock Festival and many more.  Featured on Thank You Les - an album and feature-length documentary in tribute to the great Les Paul - along with musical icons including Keith Richards, Steve Miller, Slash, and Jose Feliciano, Billy Gibbons and Bucky Pizzarelli. Played as a sideman with such artists as Bobby Whitlock and J. Geils frontman Peter Wolf. In his six year stint as Wolf's guitarist, Johnny recorded on the album Fool's Parade (1999) and co-produced Long Line (1996) with Wolf. 2012 & 2011 Boston Music Awards Nominee for Blues Artist of The Year, the same category he won in 2010.

Nominated for Best Debut Album at the Boston Music Awards in 2000 for Sometime Tuesday Morning, which featured the standout track Oh Yeah, a #1 hit on AAA radio Philadelphia, San Francisco and Austin, TX, among others, the first time in a decade an instrumental artist achieved that status. Johnny A. has eclectic musical vision and the skills to realize it..Johnny A. has his own signature guitarand seemingly scores of signature guitar sounds at his fingertips. If he had trouble focusing on a particular style as a budding musician, the attention deficit is paying off handsomely now. - Mike Joyce, Washington Post

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