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Johnny B. Irizarry

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist. I've been playing guitar and writing music since I was a kid. I've always loved music from the first time I heard my sisters Elvis 45's. The first song I can remember writing was when I was 14yrs.old. Over the years I've had the opportunity to play with some of the tri-state areas best. There are still some I want to play music with before all is said and done. I've been in lots of bands including: The Gypsy Hounds, The Coronas, The Adolphos, Big Dogs That Talk(Opened for The Subdudes last year. Great guys), Johnny and The Phantoms, Brass Trax, Split Decision(backed up Tiny Tim on a gig once. Yep him), Red Razor, Ignatz, and The Dropouts(w/Tish and Snooky of The Sick F**ks). We took Robert Gordon(good guy)to the "Lemon Ice King of Corona". That was interesting, but what great time. I got to play with one of my all time favorite players a few times, Mr. Rick Derringer. Great guy. Great talent. Guitar has always been a great friend to me. It's always been there when I needed it. ************************************************************ ******************************** PLEASE CUT AND PASTE THE FOLLOWING LINK TO HEAR SONGS BY "BIG DOGS THAT TALK" http://iacmusic.com/artist.aspx?id=51864

My Interests

Family, Music

I'd like to meet:

John Hiatt, Levon Helm, Graham Parker, Bruce Springsteen, Emmylou Harris, Delbert McClinton, Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, Ross Wilson, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, Shelby Lynne, Garland Jeffereys, Slaid Cleaves, Joe Ely, Quincy Jones, Clive Davies, Lucinda Williams, Maceo Parker, Keith Richards, Bruce Cockburn, Liberty Devito, Paul McCartney, Gary Talent, T.Bone Burnette, Willie Nelson. This is a particial list and not in any order.

Music:

Anything that's done well. But I really love Americana, Roots, Blues, and Alt Country. Oh yeah, Cajun/Zydeco, too.

Movies:

MY favorite Year, Giant, Seven Year Itch almost all The Marx Bros. movies, Flirting With Disaster, The Last Waltz, A Hard Days Night, The(original)Producers.

Television:

Bio's and Documentaries.

Books:

Zen Guitar, Mansion on the Hill

Heroes:

My Dad. My Kids.