Just leave your P.C. terminology at home. Oh yeah, and they just released a brand new, live album available in local record stores. If you're more into the Beat Poets and Leonard Cohen, then head out to the Covered Dish tonight and give Mike Johnson and the Smoking Section a listen. Squeaky is set to open. Cover is five bucks.
Doors open at ten.
His solo project has little in common with that band. What it does have is a melancholy, yet reserved intensity all its own. His songs have a way of drawing out feelings you never knew you had, kinda like Peter Murphy. Each tune on his debut album can stand alone, yet they all manage to fall into a perfect line that runs throughout the album. If you enjoy music for its lyrics and poetic virtue, as well as crisp production, you'll relish the fact that you went to listen to Mike Johnson and the Smoking Section.