Little Johnny Kantreed: News

Well, the audio is finished, the artwork is finished (thanks Mark Fleming for an incredible job!) and it's at the duplicator now. Hopefully I'll have the finished product in hand by this weekend. Anyone local to Nashville, just drop me an email and I'll get one to you. Out-of-towners, it'll be on cdbaby.com in a week or two. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it!

Well, the new CD, "Acoustic Alley Blues", was recorded last week and mixed and mastered yesterday. All that's left now is the artwork and duplication, so we're still shooting for late May. I really, really like this CD, I hope you will, too. Danny Ramsey at Little Hollywood Studio did a fantastic job producing and engineering it. And the additional vocals of Micol Davis on two songs is a heaven-send. Bless you both. It's always good to leave it in the hands of the pros!

The Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale, MS was a huge success. The weather was great, the crowds were there, and there was more downhome blues than you could imagine! Besides the fact that I got to play two sets on Saturday (Cat Head Back Porch Stage & Yazoo Street Stage), I had a chance to hear some of my favorite North Mississippi artists. But, with anywhere from 4 to 6 stages going on at one time, it was hard to catch everybody. Local Nashville buds Elam McKnight and Keith Carter knocked 'em out at Ground Zero Blues Club, while everywhere that North MS favorite Jimbo Mathus played, the crowds were sure to follow. If you didn't get a chance to make it this year, try to make plans for next year's fest. It'll be worth your while! I'll have some photos from the festival on the website in a week or two. Special thanks to Roger Stolle, Bill Talbot, and the countless others who help make this year's Juke Joint Festival a success!

The times have been set for the annual Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale, MS on Saturday, 4/16/2005. Little Johnny will be at the Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art stage at 11:00 am, and at the Yazoo Avenue stage at 4:00 pm. Hope to see you there!

Little Johnny has been booked to play at the Cat Head Delta Blues and Folk Art stage and the Yazoo Avenue stage at the annual Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale, MS on Saturday, 4/16/2005. To all of our north Mississippi friends, be sure to stop by and say "Hi"!

The studio dates have been booked for mid-April for work on the new "Acoustic Alley Blues" CD. Really looking forward to the new CD, hopefully everyone will enjoy it! Also, there's a new feature in the Store section of the website. Now available - LJK and ANJrecord logo merchandise! Go ahead, take a look, you know you want to!

Little Johnny will be going back in to the studio shortly to begin work on his new CD "Acoustic Alley Blues". Besides the self-penned tunes, LJK will be covering some old standard blues numbers, along with tapping the incredible songwriting skills of two of the Boston area's most talented talents, Lisa Bastoni & lloyd Thayer. The new CD will be a blend of blues and folk, all solo with guitar, dobro and banjo. Updates will follow.

For the week of 10/07/2004, Little Johnny's live version of "Good Woman Blues" was one of the top ten requested songs on Alaska's own www.WholeWheatRadio.com

For the week of 9/06/2004, Little Johnny's "Joe's Blues" was one of the top ten requested songs on Alaska's own www.wholewheatradio.com

For the week of 6/28/2004, Little Johnny's cover of Jimmy Reed's "Baby What You Want Me To Do" was one of the top ten requested songs on Alaska's own www.wholewheatradio.com.

On Monday, 6/21/2004, Little Johnny will be the featured artist on bluesfestradio.com. This will include a live interview at 1:00 PM (CDT) that will last around 30 minutes. Listen in at www.bluesfestradio.com.