BLUES MUSICIAN AND VOCALIST VON JOHIN HAILS FROM NASHVILLE, TN AND GREW UP IN THE SOUTHERN USA PLAYING JUKE JOINTS ALL ACROSS THE CHITLIN’ CIRCUIT. AN ARDENT FOLLOWER OF THE GREATS FROM THE WORLD OF BLUES MUSIC, VON JOHIN DELIVERS HIS POWERFUL SHOWS EVERY WEEK all AROUND SECOND LIFE.

von’s real life avatar has recorded and performed with members of hot tuna/jefferson airplane, joe louis walker, jerry garcia band, fleetwood mac,, he was mentored in music by the late, great merl saunders. Playing with Merl found him performing with narada michael walden, rob wasserman, vince welnick, melvin seales, bill kreutzmann, skip mesquite (tower of power), barry melton and more, plus he enjoyed many an introduction when also opening shows by the one and only wavy gravy,

in second life, von johin is all about the roots of his musical love, the blues. raised playing blues and bluegrass, an interesting combination if there ever was one, von sorted out early on that the biggest difference in the two genres was the tempo and the swing. he fuses together these two major influences in his life, sometimes delivering a “blues-grass” type of thang that folks seems to like when he does it.

HE’S NOTORIOUS FOR PLAYING AS LONG AS THE PEOPLES DEMAND IT, WITH SOME SHOWS LASTING TWO, three HOURS, OR EVEN MORE. WITH HIS TRUSTY GIBSON J200, VON JOHIN BROADCAST EACH SHOW LIVE FROM HIS BLUE NOTE STUDIO ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF NASHVILLE, playing almost and sometimes nightly.

NOT A SECOND LIFE RESIDENT, BUT STILL WANT TO CATCH THE SHOW? EACH WEEK AT 8PM PACIFIC TIME YOU CAN LISTEN USING ITUNES BY TELLING IT TO OPEN UP HTTP://WWW.VONJOHIN.COM:8900

Von Johin is signed to a multi-album deal with reality entertainment.