Evan Johns

"...It seems to me that if Evan Johns had more imitators/peers, there'd have to be a..."

June 23, 1995 Music Feature

Kelly Willis on Evan Johns

"...Some of my first gigs ever were opening for Evan in D.C., and in Austin our first gig was..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Music Feature

Evans Johns is da Bomb

Guitarist Evan Johns is honored at the Longbranch

"...around the 50-year mark: getting old sucks. Just ask Evan Johns. Johns is originally from Virgina, but when Texas..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Music Post by Margaret Moser

'Evan, Why Don't You Play More Blues?' Now, 'I Do.'

"...were late, but I remember him saying about 1986, "Evan, why dont you play more blues?" I do...."

June 12, 2006 Postmarks

If I Had My Way

Guitar hero Evan Johns lives!

"...Watson laughed, "You're not Evan Johns."..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Crazed Geetar by a Southern Hipster

Guitarist Evan Johns

"...then? Eight or nine years old?" "Sumpthin' like 'at." Evan Johns, who turns 39 on July 12, is off..."

June 23, 1995 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Liberty Lunch is finally reduced to dust bin debris even as Mueller Airport hosts the "Airport Rave" and some 6,000 attendees, one of which was NOT Biz Markie, who was a no-show. Who says there are no more live music venues in Austin. Once-local guitarist Evan Johns hospitalized in DC with severe liver problems, just as Bad Livers finish recording a new album. Ken Lieck, King of the Segue.

"...Evan-tualities..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Texas Platters

"...EVAN JOHNS AND THE H-BOMBS..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Music Review

Live Shots

"...EVAN JOHNS..."

Sept. 13, 1996 Music Feature

Texas Sessions

"...Eugene Chadbourne With Evan Johns and the H-BombsVermin of the Blues (Fundamental, 1987)..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Evan Johns

"...towers over the Austin skyline of the title is Evan Johns, his shaved head, and an odd-shaped electric guitar...."

Jan. 31, 2014 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Filling the Void

"...deals. Already, folks like the Derailers, Asylum Street Spankers, Evan Johns, Libbi Bosworth, the Loose Diamonds, Rick Broussard, and..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Playback: 35 Years of Chronicle Music Covers

We wade through the roughly 300 issues stamped with the mug of a musician

"...Mark McKinnon; Stevie Ray Vaughan's two identical covers; Daniel Johnston illustrating his own profile; Doug Sahm and Clifford Antone..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Crossing Paths

The Black Cat Clan

"...know too many musicians, so acquaintances like Michael Maye, Evan Johns, and others from that Washington-to-Austin import crowd shaped..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

¿Agua Fest?

"...good folks at Freedom is a July reissue of Evan Johns & the H-Bombs eponymous second album, retitled Love..."

May 30, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Maintaining the World's Most Expensive Record Collections

Austin's Small Label Scene

"...some fine, off-center roots howlings from the likes of Evan Johns & the H-Bombs, amongst others...."

Sept. 15, 1995 Music Feature

Playback: Starf**king SXSW

SXSW’s bubble burst? Sure, okay – if you say so. Leave the starfucking to us, then.

"...Evan Johns Died on Saturday at age 60 following complications..."

March 17, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Dancing About Architecture

Austin City Limits to enter its 25th season two shows lighter; Steamboat loses more relocation prospects; and Ozzy Osbourne declines Black Sabbath's nomination for entry into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

"...ticket in their lives, so their vote is totally irrelevant to me." Needless to say, the Chronicle music staff,..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Wisdom of Years

Whatever Way the Wind Blows

"...we went outside rockabilly any, we were roots-rock. [Guitarist] Evan Johns was our idol. We loved him. He's what..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Libertarian Party of Texas"Evan, Why Don't You Play More Blues?' Now, "I Do.'Dear..."

June 16, 2006 Column

2017 Music Critics Poll

Best roadshow, best new local acts, R.I.P.s, etc.

"...Geils, Grant Hart, Jon Hendricks, Nat Hentoff, Al Jarreau, Evan Johns, Albert Johnson, Tommy Keene, Jimmy LaFave, Jaki Liebezeit,..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Playback: Best Austin Music Controversies of 2017

The year in quarrel

"...Evan Johns Electrifying guitar phenom who fronted Alternative Tentacles' punkabilly..."

Dec. 22, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

John Schooley & Walter Daniels

"...is pure bore John Schooley on "Boo Hoo," resembling Evan Johns firing his H-Bombs and going on a bender...."

Nov. 21, 2014 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Estate Sale Roundup: September 25-28

Our cart runneth over with old cash registers and Delta blues this week.

"...LP's, find Cousin Joe of New Orleans, Sunnyland Slim, Evan Johns & the H-Bombs, Lazy Lester, Robert Pete Williams..."

Sept. 25, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Shot Memories

"...the song, "Jägermeister." My favorite shot memory, however, is Evan Johns, the big and burly guitarist, yelling for "some..."

July 6, 2013 Postmarks

Ballad of Tony Romo: Goat or Accidental Shaman

Maybe Romo, who choked again Sunday, just doesn't want to work overtime

"...friends who live and die Redskins football- Tom Clifford, Evan Johns, Steve Watson of the Kingpin in New Orleans,..."

Dec. 31, 2012 Sports Post by Michael Corcoran

Get Real. Get Right. Get Savage: The Return of Barrence Whitfield

Whitfield rekindles his local love affair

"...always had things going on over there, man! Also Evan Johns, who had the H Bombs and also played..."

June 27, 2012 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Check This Action

The LeRoi Brothers at 30

"...Some included notables such as Keith Ferguson, Alex Napier, Evan Johns, and Sarah Brown, but always with Buck and..."

May 11, 2011 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Memories of Monroe

"...yet just a few days later to enter the Evan Johns hurricane at the Black Cat. Austin, Texas …..."

Aug. 30, 2010 Postmarks

LSD C&W

Experimentalist Eugene Chadbourne's got a thing about Austin

"...back to 1987 and his teaming with onetime local Evan Johns on Vermin of the Blues and 1993 re-pairing..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

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