JOHNSANE

Johnsane originated in in late 2004 when solo musician Lee Johnston (the man behind was is Johnsane) went astray from playing in small town garage bands which he had done since the age of 12 and started writing original songs for his own musical pleasure.Throughout 2004-2005 he had written and recorded over a dozen songs in the direction of making his first demo album on his own in which he would be playing all the instruments and singing all the vocals. The name "JOHNSANE" was thought up by the artist himself and still to this day its meaning or concept remains unknown.Due to lack of mixing equipment at the time, the demo album would be recorded and produced on a cassette that was only released to the family and friends of Johnsane.The album was eventually converted to compact disc but was not revealed to anyone as an actual album.However, it was documented by the artist as Johnsane's first effort.Johnsane would carry on writing and recording more original material with the goal of producing a compilation of what he thought was his best songs.Seven out of twelve songs from the first demo album were chosen to be on the compilation alongside seven brand new numbers including a cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Simple Man".The album was titled Sessions In Solitude for the obvious fact that it was written,played,recorded and produced by a single musician.The album was released in the summer of 2006. Several tracks from Sessions In Solitude were put on Myspace.com under Johnsane's profile and the overall response from listeners around the world definately made the project worth while.The album sold a reasonable amount of copies around Johnsane's home town...enough to give Johnsane the gumption to keep it's music flowing into the future.
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