Art Johnson is a guitarist and violinist, in jazz, blues, country and classical music, along with being a composer, producer and engineer.  Furthermore, he is also a novelist, poet and songwriter.  Here he contributes a thought about where we are with the “American Dream”.

“Art Johnson is one of the most lyrical jazz guitarists on the scene today”. Through the years, his unique style of improvisation and harmonic accompaniment has played and or recorded with Shelly Manne, Lena Horne, Lynn Blessing, Tim Weisberg, Paul Horn, Willie Bobo, and Barbra Streisand, Papa John Creach, Allan Holdsworth and Mark O'Connor. In twenty years of living in Los Angeles, Art worked in the studios, toured extensively in the U.S., Europe and Canada performing in most major concert halls including Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center for the performing arts, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and Drury Lane. Art also taught music at San Diego State College.