JOHNNY DICKINSON
SATURDAY 6th FEBRUARY
5.00PM
McGRORY’S BACKROOM
•in 1988 Johnny became a founder member of Paul Lamb and the Kingsnakes, playing and singing alongside Jim McCarty, Top Topham, Rod Demmick and Johnny Whitehill, who remains a member of the band.
•Johnny has developed a unique individual style of playing which crosses Celtic flavours with American Blues, reminiscent sometimes of Kelly Joe Phelps and sometimes of Martin Simpson.
•Revent years have seen him working and touring alongside other great artists: Tommy Emmanuel, Jan Akkerman, John Martyn, Jerry Donahue and Kelly Joe Phelps.
•Johnny has been described as “The most potent slide player in the UK.”