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"These songs have a depth of complexity, a solidity, a substance, a delight, a harmonic intensity that keeps pulling me back to the CD. …they are, as is the case with very few jazz-based vocal songs, both as hook-laden as the best pop ditties and as richly textured as the rare song you never grow tired of. …Johnson magically develops a sound that will recall the first (acoustic) Return to Forever, with splashes of unsterilized Sergio Mendes, of Jobim, Rankin and Franks, and so many others. And at the center of it all is an indescribable voice, immediately likable but unusual — used always as a jazz instrument, like his fine guitars, and sounding very like a Brazilian vocalist, an Ivan Lins, perhaps, with Milton Nascimento tonalities thrown in. …I have found no CD of music in the last twenty years that has brought me more pleasure and satisfaction than this one."
--Bill Fisher
Victory Music Review
July 2002
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Musicians not pictured above:
Walter Bankovitch - Piano
Keith Bennett- Harmonica
John Reischman- Mandolin
Rick Vandivier- Electric Guitar
Kristen Strom- Woodwinds
John Worley- Trumpet/ Flugelhorn
Jim Schneider- Tenor Sax
Claudio Amaral
Benny Reitveld- - Electric Bass
John Shifflett- Acoustic Bass
Rene Worst- Upright & Electric Bass
Tim Gutierrez- Percussion
Jason Lewis -Drums
Jackeline Rago- Cuatro
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