Eric JOHNSON


Bloom

(2005)



Prelude
1. Bloom 3'10
(Eric Johnson)
2. Summer Jam 2'11
(Eric Johnson)
3. My Back Pages 3'48
(Bob Dylan)
4. Good To Me 4'31
(Eric Johnson)
5. Columbia
Requiem For The Astronauts 2'22
(Eric Johnson)
6. 12 To 12 Vibe 2'22
(Eric Johnson)

Courante
7. Sea Secret 1'57
(Eric Johnson)
8. Sad Legacy 4'07
(Eric Johnson)
9. From My Heart 7'27
(Eric Johnson)
10. Cruise The Nile 2'14
(Eric Johnson)
11. Tribute To Jerry Reed 2'28
(Eric Johnson)
12. Your Sweet Eyes 6'08
(Eric Johnson)

Allemaruie
13. Hesitant 6'28
(Eric Johnson)
14. Surmaround You 3'07
(Eric Johnson)
15. Magnetized 3'21
(Eric Johnson)
16. Ciel 3'26
(Eric Johnson)

Total Time: 59:07


  • Eric Johnson - Guitars (1-15), Classical Guitar (16), Bass (1, 2, 6), Electric Sitar (10), Piano (1, 3, 8, 9, 14, 16), Rhodes Electric Piano (13, 15), Synth (6, 8, 9, 12, 16), Percussion (6), Lap Steel (3, 4, 6, 12), Vocals (3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 12, 14), Background Vocals (1)
  • Salvatore Banzai La Rocca - Harp (4)
  • Rich Harney - Acoustic Piano (13)
  • Steve Barber - Acoustic Piano (13), Moog Synth (14), Additional Vocals (10)
  • Chris Maresh - Bass (3, 5, 8, 9, 12, 15), Acoustic Bass (10)
  • Roscoe Beck - Bass (11, 13, 14)
  • Tony Phillips - Drums (4), Bass (4), Synth (5, 8, 10)
  • Tal Bergman - Drums (1)
  • Tommy Taylor - Drums (2, 5), Acoustic Drums (12), Percussion (3)
  • Bill Maddox - Drums (3, 8, 10, 15), Loops (10), Acoustic Drums (12), Percussion (15)
  • Tom Brechtlein - Drums (6, 11, 13, 14)
  • Barry "Frosty" Smith - Drums (9)
  • Richard Mullen - Drum Programming (12)
  • James Fenner - Percussion (5, 6, 9)
  • Tom Burritt - Percussion (10)
  • Brad Evilsizer - Percussion (12)
  • Jody Lazo - Vocals (10)
  • Adrian Legg - Guest Soloist (11)
  • Shawn Colvin - Guest Vocals (12), Background Vocals (12)
  • Lisa Tingle - Background Vocals (14)

    Eric Johnson - Producer
    Richard Mullen - Producer

    Track 2, 3, 6, 7, 12, 13, 15 and 16 Mixed by Richard Mullen at SAUCER SOUND
    Track 1 Mixed by Pat Diliett at
    KARAPO SOUND
    Track 4, 5, 8 and 10 Mixed by Tony Phillips at
    ONE GOOD EAR
    Track 11 Mixed by Gary Paczosa at
    MINUTIA SOUND
    Assisted by Thomas Johnson
    Track 9 Mixed by Tony Phillips & Richard Mullen

    Mastered by U.E, Nastasi at STERLING SOUND

    Recorded by Richard Mullen at SAUCER SOUND
    Bill Maddox at
    SURFLAND,
    Tony Phillips at
    ONE GOOD EAR,
    Bobby Cochran at
    STUDIO B,
    and Tal Bergman at
    NO FAVORS

    Eric would like to extend Thanks and appreciation To:

    George Alessandro, Roscoe Beck, John Bland, Tom Brechtlein, Max Grace, Anne Daniels, Pat Dillett, Bill Cummiskey and Michael Frank-Braun and all at FENDER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, Wayne Forte, Michael Fuller, Dave Cowles and all at GHS STRINGS, Paul Van Name and all at GIBSON INSTRUMENTS, Bill Giebitz, Brian Hernandez, Irene Johnson, Garrie Johnson, Hugh Gillmartin and all at KORG and MARSHALL, Cindi Lazzari, Bill Maddox, Chris Maresh, Dick Boak and all at MARTIN GUITARS, Bob Matthews, John Mills, Richard Mullen, U.E Nastasi, Gary Paczosa, Tony Phillips, Joe Priesnitz, Ed Reynolds, Gary Schiff, Dustin Sears, Kristi Jo Haimi at Sennheiser, Steve Shaw, STRAIT MUSIC, PARK STREET, Tommy Taylor, Bill Ussery, Steve Vai, Jeff Van Zandt, Bill Webb, YAMAHA PIANOS, Yamiko Yamaki.

    In loving memory to my father David O. Johnson I thanks for giving me the joy of Music.

    This Music is for you.



    1. Bloom

      ( instrumental )

    2. Summer Jam

      ( instrumental )

    3. 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 1
      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, bm 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 i f 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.

      A self-ordained professor's tonque
      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 ray enemy
      In the instant that I preach
      My pathway led my confusion boats
      Mutiny from stern to bow.

      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.

    4. Good To Me

      ( instrumsntal )

    5. Columbia

      ( instrumsntal )

    6. 12 To 12 Vibe

      ( instrumsntal )

    7. Sea Secret

      ( instrumsntal )

    8. Sad Legacy

      There's no such thing as freedom
      Without some responsibility
      AH 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 ....

    9. From My Heart

      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.

    10. Cruise The Nile

      ( instrumental )

    11. Tribute To Jerry Reed

      ( instrumental )

    12. Your Sweet Eyes

      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

      Ther's a star in the northern sky
      Captivating me as 1 walk by
      Showing me what 1 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 ...

    13. Hesitant

      ( instrumental )

    14. Surmaround You

      I think this world was made for you.
      Because of the wondrous things you do,
      I saw an empty name, turn to a brighter flame
      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 1 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, 1 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 1 place the Sunnaround you.

    15. Magnetized

      ( instrumental )

    16. Ciel

      ( instrumental )