There are two kinds of music; good and bad, and it’s all subjective! At this point in my life, it is about giving back to others. Success is only a by-product of how I live my life; only a means, not an end.
I am deeply concerned about the strife in the world and how we have managed to destroy much of mother earth in a little over the last hundred and fifty years. As long as we place economy before ecology, we are doomed as a species.
My only wish with the music and my book is that I may shed light on other people’s lives to help them have a better quality of life.
May the Great Spirit bless you all
Miigwetch jw
JOHN WATSON
Just call me Johnny come lately! I started out writing poetry at the age of twelve, and was always interested in music. By the age of 21 in 1972, I caught a lot of blues acts at the Colonial, Le coq d’Or, The Silver Dollar Room and El Macombo, where I saw Ronnie Hawkins, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, Chuck Mangione, Muddy Waters, James Cotton with Matt Murphy, Willie Dixon, T-Bone Walker, Charlie Musselwhite and many more. I was inspired to learn blues harmonica, and performed with T-Bone Walker during a Sunday matinee at the Colonial.
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Stranger’s Sojourn
I am a big fan of Woody Guthrie, who wrote many songs and the novel, Bound For Glory in 1943.
My book, “Stranger’s Sojourn,” is about my six month travels across Canada, down the west coast of the U.S.A., hitchhiking all the way, and taking a freight train across the desert from Beaumont, California, to El Paso, Texas.
This autobiography deals with domestic violence and drug and alcohol addiction, as well as recovery. During the main part of the book that took place in 1975, I had many adventures hitchhiking and hopping freight trains in the USA and Mexico. My final destination was in Guatemala and traveled there on six different occasions.
In the book includes some of my poetry and music, as well as anecdotes of Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, The Byrds, Gram Parsons, Clarence White, Leonard Cohen, Richard Fariña, Mimi Fariña, Caroline Hester, Ken Kesey etc.
“The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.”
– Mark Twain
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CHIEF TECUMSEH
Chief Tecumseh is my spirit guide whom I was introduced to on January 24, 2008 at a spiritualist circle I was involved with in Keswick, and hence the title of my previous CD, “Spirit Guide,” also dedicating the first track, “Tecumseh,” in his memory.
JW
“No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers …. Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn’t the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?”
Chief Tecumseh