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MojoMay 8, 2023Garden Party is a golden-hour dream of a record, balmy keyboards and cicada-like percussion setting a perfect scene for the easy, receptive conversations between the guitars of Johnson and Barry Walker. [Jun 2023, p.87]
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May 8, 2023Johnson's metered songwriting and warm, textural playing keep the project's earthy spirit intact as it continues evolving with every new set of tunes.
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May 8, 2023Garden Party is full of good feeling. Put it on and you can smell cut grass and barbecue. You can hear the pop of the can on your first outdoor beer of the spring. There are bluegrass-y runs and two-stepping rambles, all blurred on a microdose that makes everything brighter and more beautiful.
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UncutMay 8, 2023It's sunny and optimistic and mostly dynamic (sans a few sleepy, repetitive moments on the six-minute-plus tracks). [May 2023, p.35]
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May 8, 2023Maybe it was inevitable that Johnson’s Rose City Band would drift into extended noodles over time. A threat that Earth Trip neatly avoided until its closing moments. Even that album’s centerpiece, “In The Rain,” steered clear of excesses in spite of running longer than anything here.