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Mercer & Johnson
April 27, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Live at the Station at the Midwestern!
Brock Johnson and s.mercer. Mercer and Johnson. The duo put their first recordings online for free in June of 2010. They immediately took off to find places that would let them play, as often as possible, logging thousands of downloads and hundreds of thousands of miles.
The band has shared stages with, or opened for established acts and up and comers like… Billy Joe Shaver, Hayes Carll, Sara Watkins, the Turnpike Troubadors, Robbie Fulks, Mike McClure, Mountain Sprout, J.P. Harris and the Ben Miller Band. They quickly found out nobody cares who you’ve opened for.
The band uses a mix of traditional string-band instrumentation on their recordings, to craft songs that vary in origin from traditional style ballads and up-tempo numbers, to songs influenced by singer-songwriters and modern indie rock.
Live, the two feature mostly mandolin and bass in a stomping shouting manner that people find enjoyable, yet puzzling. The puzzle is the mandolin, which they often mistake for a wide variety of other instruments.
The two have released several recordings, an out of print cd e.p. called “Oregano”, the digital-only release “Road Noise” a self-titled full length and a full length named “Too”.
