Ralph Boyd Johnson

This longtime Calgary musician got his big break in 1997 when he performed alongside Sylvia Tyson and Kevin Welch through the Calgary Folk Festival. No stranger to songwriting, the musician provides written a lot more than 250 tracks, including co-writing The Fool May be the Last to learn with Billy Cowsill. In 2001, he made an appearance at Farm Paths: A Special event of Root base Music with Jim Cuddy, Stephen Fearing, and Sue Foley. The same season, he released his debut work, Dyin’ to look, on Rumble Chair Recordings. The record, which got 14 months to generate, runs from spoken-word initiatives in the design of Lou Reed to root base rock such as for example Dave Alvin, Steve Earle, and Joe Ely. A video for just one from the album’s singles, “Postcards Through the Advantage,” was shown on CMT Canada. He in addition has performed with Fred Eaglesmith and Victoria Williams and it is a mainstay for the Western Canada nation/root base scene.