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| Orville Johnson was born in 1953 in Edwardsville, Illinois.
He came up on the St. Louis, Missouri music scene, where he was exposed
to, and participated in, a variety of blues, bluegrass, and American roots
music. He began singing in his Pentecostal church as a young boy and in
rock bands in middle school. He took up the guitar at 17, with early influences
from Doc Watson, Rev. Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt, and Chuck Berry.
In the early 1970's, Orville spent several seasons playing bluegrass on the SS Julia Belle Swain, a period-piece Mississippi river steamboat plying the inland waterways, with his group the Steamboat Ramblers. Johnson moved to Seattle, Washington in 1978, where he was a founding member of the much-love and well-remembered folk/rock group, the Dynamic Logs. Other musical associations include Laura Love, Ranch Romance, File Gumbo Zydeco Band, Scott Law, and the Twirling Mickeys. Johnson, known for his dobro and slide guitar stylings and vocal acrobatics, has played on over 100 albums. He has appeared on Garrison Keilor's Prarie Home Companion and was featured in the 1997 film Georgia with Mare Winningham. |
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