Gabby Johnson

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On June 22, 1997, we all got together at my house to sorta jam or whatever. . .I got a phone call. . .one of my brother's friends had heard that I was in a band. . .(The Rusty Lemons Project). . .I told him that I had a new band. . .very new. . .only about a half-hour old actually. . .Anyways, I told him that we didn't know very many songs, but we'd try to play for 'em. So, we have this gig. . .we were supposed to start at about 8:00, but we got started about 10:30 because we lost things, we left things at home, things wouldn't work, etc. . .Well, it was during Sweet Home Chicago that Travis introduced us as "Gabby Johnson", and me & Joey looked at each other like, "That's sorta cool. . ." But we didn't know what to think. Evidently Donnie had told Travis that we were gonna be called Gabby Johnson, so that was cool. We had always talked about bein' in a band called "Gabby Johnson", but just at that moment realized that we actually were in that band

Since then we've been called several names: Gabby's Johnson, Gabby Hayes, Gabby Johnson Band, The Gabby Johnson Band, all kinds of stuff, but the fact still remains, WE ARE GABBY JOHNSON

So, our first gig was on Friday, June 27, 1997. We went to record our first CD on July 17, 1999. We released our first CD (Walkin' Out) on October 29, 1999. We didn't know how the sales from that CD would go, but around mid-June of 2002, we completely sold out of Walkin' Out. We recorded our second CD, 129, from July 22, 2001 to about the middle of August 2001. It was released on November 2, 2001. We were very excited about this one. Some people like the first one better, but that's to be expected. It's hard to convince people that we have (tried to) develop and nurture our style more as we've grown as musicians (and people). People that have listened to Walkin' Out for 4 years still love it, and are having a hard time accepting that anything else could possibly be "our" sound. Don't get me wrong, we still have a lot of work to do to capture our ideal "sound" on an album. 129 is still not where we want to be, but it's closer than Walkin' Out

We started recording our third CD (Been So Long) in November of 2003. We finished it sometime in December. We only recorded and worked for 6 days while our engineer, Chris Rowe worked many many hours to make our CD sound incredibly awesome. Kenny Lamb produced this album, which means it WILL be a hit, so be lookin' for us out there!!!