TRACK LIST

1. Intro
2. Mississippi King
3. Spillin’ Fire
4. Silver
5. Gods of Demolition
6. Shine Around
7. It Ain’t Easy
8. Hollerin’
9. Lollipop
10. Swallow the World
11. Buzzard Luck
12. Odella

ALBUM INFO

They don’t make them like this too often anymore. No. 6 Dance is American rock & roll from the heartland with Five Horse Johnson hopping a freight train and riding the rails from rootsy blues to acid rock to ’70s guitar-band heaviness. The album takes Led Zeppelin’s brand of psychedelic stoner tunes and puts them in a stars-and-stripes T-shirt. “Mississippi King” is a catchy jam that would have suited Skynyrd just fine. “Spillin’ Fire” takes the old school harmonica blues and rocks out with them, and “It Ain’t Easy” makes for a sweet, Southern, sun-drenched cover. “Gods of Demolition,” the title that best befits Five Horse Johnson, showcases Brad Coffin’s demon guitar and Eric Oblander’s desert rocking, Kyuss-esque vocals. But the best song on the disc has got to be “Shine Around,” a groovy, circular, Black Crowes-style jam with a singalong chorus — a tune worthy of the smokiest middle-American teen bedrooms circa 1973.  – ALL MUSIC

Credits

Five Horse Johnson is:
Eric Oblander: vox & harp
Brad Coffin: vox & guitar
Steve Smith: bass

Additional Musicians:
Chuck Mauk: drums on Tracks 2-7,9,10, & 12
Billy Reedy: lead guitar on tracks 7 & 12
Kenny Olson: lead guitar on tracks 2 & 6
Jimmy Bones: organ and backing vocals on Tracks 2 & 6
Mark Miers: piano on track 8
Sandman: other lead guitar on 7
Al Sutton: backing vocals on Track 7
Bob Ebeling: melotron on track 11
Phil Durr: guitar on track 5

Executive Producer: Scott Hamilton.
Fine Arts: Mark Dancey.
Produced by: Al Sutton, Scott Hamilton, & Bill Kozy.
Recorded at Rustbelt Studios, Royal Oak, MI.
Engineered by: Bill Kozy, Dan Winters, Bob Ebeling, and occasionally Al Sutton.
Mastered by: Chris Gooseman at Solid Sound, Ann Arbor, MI

TRACK LIST

1. Lightning When I Need
2. Fly Back Home
3. So Low
4. She Don’t Know
5. Sermons in the Yard
6. Say We Can
7. Bleachin’ Bones
8. Climb Right Through
9. I Cried
10. Dead Language

ALBUM INFO

“Five Horse Johnson shoots straight down the middle with some super raw, ass-shakin’, blues boogie rock. These drunks have total ZZ Top damage (old ZZ, babies, the good stuff) and they just rock straight through the whole damn record! If you are into any kind of blues rock, you’ll dig on this album. It’s got that R.L.Burnside/ Junior Kimbrough sound to it but it packs a heavier punch. (Anyone remember Raging Slab?) This is music that you should drink an entire bottle of Yukon Jack to, before goin’ into town and openin’ up a can ‘o whup-ass on someone. (8)” METAL HAMMER

Credits

Five Horse Johnson is:
Brad Coffin: vox & guitars
Eric Oblander: vox & harp
Steve Smith: bass
Tim Gahagan.: drums

Additional Musicians:
Phil Durr: Guitar

Recorded at Rustbelt Studios – Royal Oak, MI.
Produced by Dave Piechura, Matt O’brien, and Al Sutton.
Mastered by Chris Goosman at Solid Sound – Ann Arbor, MI.
Artwork by Mark Dancey.
Executive Producer: Scott Hamilton

TRACKLIST:

1. Downstone Blues 03:48
2. Shine Eyed 05:53
3. Double Down 05:11
4. Roll With You 05:22
5. Wash Your Hands 04:33
6. Beggin’ for Ball 04:03
7. High Time 04:23
8. Diamond 04:42
9. People’s Jam 08:31
10. Submission 09:23

ALBUM INFO:

Five Horse Johnson comes straight out of Toledo, OH, with big riff, get down, rootsy, middle American rock & roll that takes acid blues and Led Zeppelin and mixes in influences like the Black Crowes, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Aerosmith, and ZZ Top.

The band — made up of Eric Oblander on harps and vocals, Brad Coffin on guitar, Steve Smith on bass — got together in 1995 and began opening for acts like War, Southern Culture on the Skids, Atomic Bitchwax, the Queens of the Stone Age, and R.L. Burnside. In 1998, they released Double Down. The critically acclaimed Fat Black Pussycat followed in 1999 and The No. 6 Dance came out on Small Stone Records in 2001…
credits
released 30 September 1997

Eric Oblander: Vox & Harp
Brad Coffin: Guitar & Vox
Steve Smith: Bass
Jim Armstrong: Drums

Produced by Greg Strzempka.
Engineered by Dave Piechura, Al Sutton, Jeff Stredwyck, Earl Owens, Chris Stoll, John Smerek.
Recorded at 40 oz Sound, Super Duper Recording Studio, and Audiomatrix.
Banjo and Backup vox by Greg Strzempka.
Cover art by Romulus Trout.

The three members of Winds of Neptune have all been in bands together, but never the same band, and never at the same time. With classic ‘70s rock in their hearts, the Detroit three-piece realize their self-titled debut for Small Stone Records after years of preparation across this tumultuous half-decade.

Indeed, it was pandemic restlessness and perhaps escapism that propelled Flogging Molly drummer Mike Alonso, guitarist Kevin Roberts (The Meatmen) and bassist/ vocalist Ross Westerbur (500 Ft. of Pipe, many others) to start jamming Free and Jethro Tull covers in the basement during lockdown, and the years since have seen the advent of Winds of Neptune as an ongoing project.

And yes, each member of the band has been previously involved in projects with each of the other two members. Kevin and Ross were together in the heavy psych/blues band Bluesong, Kevin and Mike in the old-school thrash metal project Mykronian, and Ross and Mike in the MC5-inspired stoner trio Aquarius Void. You will be quizzed on this later.

The name Winds of Neptune comes from the final unreleased Bluesong instrumental, connecting the threads. With their foundation in songwriting, the chops to live up to their influences in the likes of UFO, Budgie and Captain Beyond, and the will to get out and do the thing live, what started as a way to stay sane in dark times has turned out to be the end game of years of shuffling through projects. Welcome Winds of Neptune.

For fans of: Cactus, Foghat, Soundgarden Five Horse Johnson, La Chinga, Free Ride, and Luna Sol.

Track List

1. The Faun’s Rhyme
2. Gas Giant
3. La Cacciata
4. Temporal Mutant
5. U.S.L.
6. So Sayeth The Mouth of the Void
7. The Fitz
8. Queen of Sumatra