
Johnson played all the instruments except violin (Scott Danbom) and cello (Lindsay Romig), with a longtime friend Matt Pence engineering the lo-fi record. In December 1996, Johnson recorded the first Centro-matic full-length album, Redo The Stacks. A handful of 7-inch releases followed, and Johnson began playing live under the Centro-matic moniker in March 1996 as a solo performance with electric guitar and vocals.

It was the first time he had written and sung songs, and later that year saw the release of the cassette Non-Directional Jetpack Race. After five and a half years, Funland disbanded in June 1996.Ĭentro-matic began as a four-track cassette project when Johnson returned to college in May 1995. The band toured regularly in the US and released its only full-length album, The Funland Band, on Steve Records in 1995. Funland signed with Arista Records that year, releasing the EP Sweetness in March 1993. On Super Bowl Sunday 1991, Johnson joined Peter Schmidt and Clark Vogeler to form the band Melt, which changed its name to Funland in 1992. While there, Johnson played in bands such as Polyester, Salt Lick, The Dooms UK, and was a founding member of Baboon.

They released two cassettes in 19 before Johnson left to attend the University of North Texas. After moving to Killeen, Texas, from Kennett, Missouri, he was a founding member and drummer for the jangle-rock band The Benjamins. Johnson began playing drums, piano and sang in his church choir at an early age. He double-majored in English and elementary education. Johnson attended the University of North Texas, where he was involved in Denton's active music scene. When he was 11 years old, his mother remarried and the family moved to Killeen, Texas. I love great songs and there are so many talented writers in Nashville, but I do have a song on the album that I wrote and I'm very proud of it.”Ĭharley Crockett will release his latest album The Man From Waco on September 9th via Son of Davy/Thirty Tigers.Johnson was born in Kennett, Missouri. I've explored about every part of country music you can explore and it seems like I always keep coming back to my roots, which is traditional country music. At this point in my career it’s always good for me to try something different, with different sounds, and I think you'll hear hints of that on this record. That’s just what you can expect from one of my albums. That album earned Shelton a number of awards, including Top Country Artist at the Billboard Music Awards in May.So what can fans expect to hear on Texoma Shore? According to Shelton: “When you listen to the record it will go from something traditional to something that will make your head spin back to something even more traditional.
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“I literally recorded this album here at its shore so it’s full circle to have the love of this place and the love of country music come together here.” Texoma Shore follows in the footsteps of Shelton’s last album, If I’m Honest, which was the best-selling country album released in 2016. “Lake Texoma has always been a place of great memories, new and old,” said Shelton. Nightroamer Ĭountry superstar Blake Shelton remains firmly rooted as a proud Oklahoman with his forthcoming album, Texoma Shore.

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