Johnny and Katie began playing music at an unlikely time. In May of 2020, both were faced with the challenge of finding ways to play music during the pandemic when touring wasn’t possible. Both having strong ties to Asleep at the Wheel, and both living in the Hill Country of central Texas, it was a very exciting prospect.

Johnny’s iconic Texas roadhouse and live music venue, Hill Top Cafe, became the perfect outlet for them to collaborate. The duo quickly cultivated a vast array of American Roots music, from original tunes, blues to swamp pop and swing to gospel. The show that this duet brings to the stage is always a memorable experience.

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Time is a river and you can never step in the same river twice. It’s all gonna change, but what came before shapes what comes after. There are certain people who seem to be in both places at once.

Johnny Nicholas has played music and rambled with some of the most original and artistically powerful individuals of the American 20th century.

just to name a few…..

Big Walter Horton, Mississippi Fred Macdowell, Koko Taylor, Jimmie Vaughan, Nathan Abshire, Houston Stackhouse, Carol Fran, Lightnin Slim, Roosevelt Sykes, Arthur ‘big boy’ Crudup, BB King, Bonnie Rait, S.P. Leary, Marcia Ball, Lazy Lester, Snooky Pryor, Robert jr. Lockwood and Johnny Shines.

music, myths, trains and rivers.

they’re all a journey.

in the individual sense and in the greater continuum.

Johnny’s live performances and the music on his nine solo albums attest to this journey along these age old paths. there’s no way that they couldn’t be with the life that he’s led and the people he’s known.

As I said, there are people who seem to be able to stand in two places at once. Where they are now and where it all began. Destroy the illusion of time and live in the truths that spoke to you as a child. the sounds of the summer night, the train whistle and the open tuned guitar. surely you are there at least as much as you are here.

Johnny will take you there every time he takes the stage.