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Melle Johnson

About Me

This is a site featuring the lyrics and songwriting of Melle Johnson. Melle writes pop rock songs influenced by New Thought and contemporary spiritual themes.
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Email Marketing by VerticalResponseMelle (guitar, bass, vocals, composer) has been lead vocalist for No Exit with guitarist Jeff Vetstein (January Hills Band) and Blusion and played guitar in Cheese Dog with guitarist Seth Freeman (God’s Own Drunk, January Hills Band), Legionnaires with John Wenzel (Dishwater Psychics, Wicked Immigrants) and released two solo singles for Linden Tree.
Melle hopes to write top 40 songs that also change the world. He lives in the Denver metro area with his wife and two children.If you need some songs written drop him a line. Follow him on Twitter

About these songs

"Always Summer"- about a gurl.

"One Mind Show" - lonely alcoholic breaks down, brings story to Broadway.

"Breadline Circus"- Businessman misses the point from sea to shining sea.

"Hours on the Road" Wandering New Englander finds out where he is. Nowhere.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/12/2006
Band Members: Melle Johnson- Guitar and vocals
Jeff Johnston-Piano
Andy Dana- Production, arranging
Jen pastalo Dacpano - Vocals on "Ill Try To Forgive You"
Influences: Brian Wilson, Lou Reed, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Anthology of Folk Music, Raymond Carver, DCFC, Gary Louris, Neil Diamond, The Band, John Denver, Cormac McCarthy, Peter Mayer, Warren Buffett, U2, Natasha Beddingfield, Wilco, Amy Winehouse, Rick Rubin, the Beastie Boys, Guided by Voices, Hayes Carll, Abe Lincoln, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Paulo Coehlo, Matthew, the Psalms, Ernest Holmes, Lily Allen, Steely Dan, Madonna, Guns n Roses, Wayne Dyer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Aristotle, the Shins, Paul Simon, Van Morrison, the Doors, Supertramp, The Grateful Dead, Phish, Ween, the Decemberists, Charles Mingus, Beethoven, Ernest Hemingway, Stereolab, Of Montreal, Mcoast, Modest Mouse, Chuck D, Dr. Dre, Method Man, the Fugees, The clash, Neutral Milk Hotel, Flaming Lips, Jack Kerouac, J.D. Salinger, William Blake, Colin Wilson, Napoleon Hill, Berthold Brecht, Cole Porter, Henry Miller, Roger Teel, Johnny Cash, Thomas Edison, Keane, Coldplay, Jagger/Richards, Carole King, King/Goffin, Marvin Gaye, Paul McCartney, Leonard Cohen, Daniel Johnston, Stephen Stills, Frank Sinatra, Brian Jonestown Massacre
Sounds Like: Bobby Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Jose Gonzalez, DCFB, Big Star, The Jayhawks, Joni Mitchell, Leo Kottke, John Fahey
Record Label: Linden Tree
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

studio Journal - No Restrictions

I'm thinking of extracting the instrumental aprt from "No Restrictions" and using as transition music. I really see this music as capable of producign gold records but at the exact same time it works ...
Posted by on Fri, 22 May 2009 14:05:00 GMT

Studio Journal 5-18-09 "Panda and the Bumbershoots"

I am going over to the studio around 7 pm.  Dana producing, Melle singing and guitar. The project is currently titled "Panda and the Bumbershoots" and will have ten songs from the following list Sound...
Posted by on Mon, 18 May 2009 13:17:00 GMT

Melle Johnson - News Songs, April 2009

"News Songs"I've posted an obituary song called "Natasha Richardson."Like many journalists who write obituaries, the art is in channelinghow others felt about the deceased. Feel free to forward to fri...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:54:00 GMT

Natasha Richardson 1963 -2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKD2gIYi0hs Obituary song for Natasha Richardson, Tony award-winning actress, mother of two, survived by husband, actor Liam Neeson. Daughter of actress Va...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:27:00 GMT

Substantial Doubt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmet_MTHvFs
Posted by on Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:41:00 GMT

The Day The Rocky Died

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G679ZRyQCkU song about the closing of the Rocky Mountain NewsThe Day The Rocky DiedBy Melle Johnson 2/28/2009Today a newspaper died and Ill tell you the re...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:28:00 GMT

The Excommunication of Bishop Williamson

The Excommunication of Bishop Williamson By Melle JohnsonThe Bishop Richard WilliamsonSaid there is no guarantee Lies, lies, liesThe Shoah wasnt done deliberatelyThe Leuchter report is ...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:25:00 GMT

Where Do Great Songs Come From?

"If I knew where the great songs came from, I'd go there more often," Leonard Cohen. In the miseducation of the songwriter I believe that out of  the hundreds of composition techniques, we can break o...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:23:00 GMT

Joint Chiefs of Staff- Rock n Soul Cafe Boulder, CO

The Joint Chiefs of Staff, mixed heavy, electric funkiness with an in-the-midst-of- audience five song acoustic jam which seemed to warm the 50 people who went to the show. The JCOF (I have heard also...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:50:00 GMT

portable record player- a poeric

What bizarre randomness if I dont recognize the flow exactly as it stands and moves and has its being, as me. All experience moves the beautiful creation, there is a departed attention and a fragment...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:01:00 GMT