jOhnny Morse

Writer's block sucks.  Without a prompt, without a deadline, I got stuck.

I decided to reverse my process and see if that'd unstick the stuck (or, as the case may be, the suck).  I wrote a tune to see if…

It's a love song!

Because, you know, in my bio it states “every song is a love song… in some manner”

Most summers my wife and I take a week up in Vermont to visit friends.  The area of Vermont…

Hello gentle reader.

No song this week.  Sorry!

The songwriting challenge has died.  I'm sad.  Apparently I work best in the creative world with deadlines and rules.  Counterintuitive, perhaps, but I had an inkling this is where I'd end up…

Vulgar?  Maybe
Crude?  Yup.
But that's this week's throwback song.  The songwriting challenge has stalled a bit for the group, and I hit the dreaded writer's block trying to write something other than another angry political song.  Instead of putting…

One of the first songs I wrote that I was really proud of.  An old Smoke Up jOhnny track (both Apple Music and Spotify links provided for your aural pleasure) that was written about a former relationship.  They say write…

JFC I need to get off of this topic…. I feel like an 80's Reagan-era punk raging against it all.  Whatever.  I need to get this shit off my chest.

The prompt from Ryan this week was “your head on…

The one song that Snapface got on the radio, thanks to our pal Roadkill who runs the Local Licks segment on our local radio station.  I uploaded the version with his talk up.

Sunrise was inspired by a Facebook post…

Autobiographical.  

This was a Snapface song that we recorded in the basement.  Bryce had the music, I wrote the lyrics.  I pulled some references from Anthrax and Public Enemy into the lyrics because… autobiographical.  Love those bands, and I'm a…

This week's prompt was from Aaron and it's “a certain point of view”.  Yeah, I have a point of view (as if you couldn't tell from some of the other entries in this blog.  Warning; I'm angry.  Damn political climate…

Not gonna lie this was a tough one.

The prompt from Jeff this week was “drained, tired, worn out, exhausted, empty tank, last legs, dead on my feet, spent, out of steam -- anything that fits that feeling.”  And this…