Nashville, Tennessee
21 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter

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"The day I saw you're beautiful was the same I embraced the fall."

BIOGRAPHY

Well hello there, my name is Paul J Johnson and I really appreciate you stopping by. I grew up in North Dakota and Minnesota, but today I'm happily based out of Nashville, TN. People tend to liken my acoustic-based pop/rock sound to artists like Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Jason Mraz, and Paul Simon. I've recorded a couple full length albums and am currently working on some of my favorite Paul J Johnson recordings to date, which will hopefully be out and in your ears soon! I absolutely love performing live and if you dig my stuff watch out for a show near you! I hope you enjoy my tunes and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your ears and support; it's people like you who keep me going and allow me to have a blast doing what I love! Be kind, keep an open heart, rewind, etc.

LEVEL

semi-pro

GENRES

Singer/Songwriter, Pop, Rock

Contact

Management: n/a
Publishing: pauljjmusic@gmail.com
Label: n/a
Booking: pauljjmusic@gmail.com

P.R.O.

BMI

INSTRUMENTS

bass / drums / acoustic guitar / electric guitar / vocals

INFLUENCES

John Mayer, Paul Simon, Jackson Browne, Ben Kweller, Ben Folds, Ben Harper, Amos Lee, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, The Killers, Jack Johnson, Neil Young, Jack White, Jimi Hendrix

I AM INTERESTED IN

in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a record deal
in getting a publishing deal

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
with others
for myself
for others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

experience >

OTHER SONG OR ALBUM CREDITS

played lead guitar on Autophobia's album "Stay Awake"

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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,