After having a Martin Signature guitar and a Fender Signature Stratocaster named after him, he shows why with tasteful and delicate playing across this broad canvass of musical tones.
Lyrics and Credits:
Bloom
(Instrumental)
Eric Johnson
Summer Jam
(Instrumental)
Eric Johnson
My Back Pages
Bob Dylan
Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin' high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
"We'll meet on edges, soon," said I
Proud 'neath heated brow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
"Rip down all hate", I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull. I dreamed
Romantic facts of musketeers
Foundationed deep, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
Girls' faces formed the forward path
From phony jealousy
To memorizing politics
Of ancient history
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Unthought of, though, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
A self-ordained professor's tongue
Too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school
"Equality," I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My pathway led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
Good To Me
(Instrumental)
Eric Johnson
Columbia
(Instrumental)
Eric Johnson
12 to 12 Vibe
(Instrumental)
Eric Johnson
Sea Secret
(Instrumental)
Eric Johnson
Sad Legacy
Eric Johnson
There’s no such thing as freedom
Without some responsibility
All this shock and surprise
But we’ve been throwing out a mean boomerang
And now it’s coming back at us.
Wouldn’t you like to see a change?
Are you willing to pay?
Stopping the screams and guns and pain
I’d like to throw them away.
We put the innocent to test
By all the thoughts we invest
Children learn from what excites us
That’s such a sad legacy.
Do you really think no connection?
With the polarity we emit?
And worship walks in the wrong direction
We keep feeding it
And I am thinking something
But I’m really doing nothing.
Wouldn’t you like to see a change?
Are we willing to pay?
Stopping the screams and guns and pain
I’d like to throw them away
We put the innocent to test
By all the thoughts we invest
The children learn from what excites us
That’s such a sad legacy.
Wouldn’t you like to see a change?
Are we willing to pay?
Stopping the screams and guns and pain
I’d like to throw them away
We put the innocent to test
By all the thoughts we invest
Wouldn’t you like to see a change?
Bustin’ the sad legacy….
From My Heart
Eric Johnson
All these things we chase outside
Pull us down
Endless desire to give us joy
Can’t be found
Catching up to get my breath in this fight
Something is about to stir and it feels right
From my heart
Working in a new mirage to grab onto
Climbing up another’s fence, no better view
Where’s my heart?
I can’t say much
“Much” is just words; they’re not real
Lead to the truth
Substance inside
I won’t hide
From my heart.
So much has been said
Turn off your mind, learn to feel
Close to your breath, all that you need
All that’s real
I just can’t hide, hide from the truth
You describe
So break me down into my soul,
I return… to my heart.
Cruise The Nile
(Instrumental)
Eric Johnson
Tribute to Jerry Reed
(Instrumental)
Eric Johnson
Your Sweet Eyes
Eric Johnson
Its so crazy living in this world
Separating the stone and pearl
Like we do in the every day
Turn our attention this way
To ride up on the thing you do
I just walk up straight to you
Tell you what you probably know
There’s a light that always shows
Your Sweet Eyes
I can’t turn back anymore
Opportunity at my front door
Showing me I should get this way
You don’t get asked every day
Change your mind and you change
Your plans
Then your heart starts to understand
What you’ve got right next to you
Realize what’s coming through
Your Sweet Eyes
All I got to do when I’m sad
I just think about the times we’ve had
And all my fears just drift into space
There’s nothing that can erase
Your Sweet Eyes
There’s a star in the northern sky
Captivating me as I walk by
Showing me what I can become
Leave behind what is lost or won
Something’s different with me, can you see
The truth is starting to come out of me
As I think about the hope I feel
I leave behind the world for something real
Your Sweet Eyes…
Hesitant
(Instrumental)
Eric Johnson
Sunnaround You
Eric Johnson
I think this world was made for you,
Because of the wondrous things you do;
I saw an empty name, turn to a brighter fl ame
That was the gift that you gave me,
It was your love that saved me.
Something so rare and tender, deserves complete surrender
I want to place the Sunnaround you.
I don’t think that I ever knew my heart
Since that first love, it fell apart.
Not knowing what to do, until that one was you
I kept anticipating, that kept my heart from breaking.
Now that I get to hold you
And say words I haven’t told you
I want to place the Sunnaround you.
Sometimes, people keep holding out
Until they are sure what it’s all about.
So long the time, we’ve had to wait,
Cause there’s no more need to hesitate
To start our life to be, I know I’ll surely see
Every investigation, shows me the inspiration
That there just is no other, to learn of love together
So I place the sun around you
But not just my heart sways toward you
The whole wide world’s made for you
That’s why I place the Sunnaround you.
Magnetized
(Instrumental)
Eric Johnson
Ciel
(Instrumental)
Eric Johnson