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Mia Johnson

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About Me

MyGen Profile Generator Mia Johnson is originally from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan but has been writing music and performing in Philly long enough to have laid down some sturdy roots there. In just over a decade living in this little big town she has created a name for herself as a one of the city's most durable singer-songwriters and performers with continuos touring and musical exploration being her MO. Over the years she has held many a side job from retail to restaurant, janitor to cab driver in order to "support her music habit" but now relies solely on musical endeavors for her living. She keeps her performance schedule full between solo/duo gigs in the area's cafes and clubs, singing back-up in the original urban-folk band Steph Hayes and The Good Problems, and touring as June Carter in the fabulous DAVID STONE:The Johnny Cash Experience. To this she says "In order to keep your head above water in this business, a girl's gotta have some versatility!"DRIVER: Mia's current CD DRIVER, a ten-song disc produced by Walt Bass (G Love, Laguardia) at Metropolitan Studios in Bryn Mawr, PA, masterfully runs the stylistic gamut. Her nights driving a cab in New Jersey and experiences accumulated over many years of "shoe-string" touring provided her with experiences critical to the realization of the record’s title with the re-curring themes of travel, motion, change and the road being a common thread binding the songs together. The sound is melody-led, rhythm-driven, tasty acoustic rock fleshed out by clever lyrics, solid vocals and nifty instrumentation which combines a full rock rhythm section with cello, acoustic, and electric guitars. Though the flavorful and rich production and featured performances by some of Philly's favorites such as Garrett Dutton a.k.a. G Love, The BurnDown Allstar's Davey Quicks, and Alo Brasil provides beautiful scenery for your voyage through DRIVER, Mia’s strong, honest voice and clever, weathered observations assure you’ll never lose your way.Click below to hear the new tune, now entitled "By & By" ;D

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Member Since: 1/25/2005
Band Website: miajohnson.net
Band Members: Mia Johnson - Vox, Acoustic Guitar Tom Walling- Drums Jeff Hiatt- Bass Rocco Decicco- Electric Guitar Erin Ryan- Cello Adrien Reju- Backing Vox, Percussion
Influences: Good & Bad
Sounds Like: Song-Oriented Acoustic Rock loaded with fine rhythmic texture and enhanced by delicious melodic flavor
Type of Label: None

My Blog

new pics @ seancapuano.smugmug.com

Howdy there... Just wanted to let you know to go to http://seancapuano.smugmug.com to check out some current live photos of me taken by Sean Capuano, a local photographer who has been working his ass ...
Posted by Mia Johnson on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:08:00 PST

"Sick" posted again

I played in Media last weekend, and some folks liked this song so much that I promised I would post it up for download on the ol' space again. Sorry for the re-run, I'll put something fresher up soon...
Posted by Mia Johnson on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:39:00 PST

New Song Up For Download "Plush"

Ok, so Hoagy and I were performing as a duo at the time and he figured out the guitar part to Stone Temple Pilots' song "Plush" on the BANJO... Then he talked me into learning the vocal part and we ac...
Posted by Mia Johnson on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:38:00 PST

"Sick"

So once again I am late as ever just like with most things I do... Someday there will be a headstone with my name on it accompanied by the quote "better late then never" but enough of that. The new ...
Posted by Mia Johnson on Fri, 11 May 2007 05:06:00 PST

for a change

Sorry abou the couple of days delay on this one folks... um, april fools? Ok so this new old song is one that was requested by my dear friend April and it is April so for her birthday here it is. It...
Posted by Mia Johnson on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:39:00 PST

New Tune for Free Download!

Just posted a new song for the month of March. It is off of the same live CD from the Bitter End as last month's post, but this time Rocco does accompany... Pirate on friends, ~Mia...
Posted by Mia Johnson on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:02:00 PST

UnReleased Recording-Of-The Month

Ok, so here's the deal... I was going through some old stuff (which is most of what I have here in my house) and pulled out some CD's that I have collected over the years of live performances, product...
Posted by Mia Johnson on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:13:00 PST

terrorists from the moon!

The way I figure it, the Cartoon Network scored big time with this whole terrorism scare related to their promotion of the new Aqua Teen Hungar Force Movie (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/01/boston.bom...
Posted by Mia Johnson on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 01:54:00 PST

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hello to all! It has been a long time since I have dropped any news or info here, my apologies to those who felt the lacking. I don't have a good excuse so I will simply take the resposibility for t...
Posted by Mia Johnson on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:44:00 PST

spring stuff :)

Hello there spiring! I am so happy you are here again. So much so I have been doing a whole lot of cool stuff to celebrate.Let's see...Well I joined a great group this past couple of months. I am n...
Posted by Mia Johnson on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 10:56:00 PST