This acoustic guitarist is mainly known by his appearance by the Manhattan Transfer group, which had a lot of success in the early 80's. Wayne Johnson now has a solo acoustic guitar album out called One Guitar. His influences come from jazz and blues music, but you hardly can compare him with one, as Wayne does his own thing. Wayne plays classic and flamenco guitars.

Firefly is the first track and has fantastic percussive elements and a challenging melody line with a first-class repeating pattern on which he improvises a lot in Bossa Nova style.  Baby an interesting ballad which represents a lot of tranquility. My Secret is a top-notch piece on which he improvises with percussive melodic and harmonic phrases on a Spanish orientated sound palette, but switches in a wink to excellent finger style play. American Medley is an ode to Ray Charles his version of American the Beautiful. Father and Son a very moody ballad played with great fantasy on a skilled melody line, which is intimate, a dedication for his passed away father.  For Sodie's Sake a grooving piece played with flowing techniques in a jazzy way full of rich melody line building attainments.

One Guitar is an unpredictable album as Wayne Johnson has the ability to fully absorb a listener in solid playing techniques, like structure, balance, rhythm and a unique approach to melody line building and swing. Seldom heard an album which so much variety and creativity, wow !

~ Henk te Veldhuis,  Bridge Guitar Reviews

The David Cullen

Collection

Doyle Dykes:

Gitarre 2000

Patrick Ki: Aqua