Biography

MARK JOHNSON & EMORY LESTER
ACOUSTIC MILESTONES - 20 YEARS

Quiet Fire Productions - 2017 QFP-070

Celebrating 20 years of making original, unique and creative string music together, Clawgrass/clawhammer banjoist Mark Johnson and mandolinist/multi-instrumentalist Emory Lester have created a new chapter in their widely-acclaimed ‘Acoustic’ series of recordings, with this new ‘Acoustic Milestones’ album, that embodies all the innovative and magical elements that the duo has expertly delivered over a 20 year partnership and 4 previous award-nominated albums. With their creative songs and instrumental playing, featuring their well-known unique sound of merging elements of old time, bluegrass and new acoustic music, ‘Acoustic Milestones’ brings the duo into the present with an exciting new presentation and offering.

Mark Johnson – Clawgrass / clawhammer banjo
Emory Lester – vocals, mandolins, guitars, violins, bass

1. CRAZY CREEK
Tommy Jackson/Ray Edenton (Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music) BMI
2. MISFORTUNE’S CHILD
Carol F. Smith/Sonny James (Mike Curb Music) BMI
3. CHEYENNE
Bill Monroe (Hill & Range Songs) BMI
4. HOME SWEET HOME REVISITED
Rodney Crowell (Sixteen Stars Music) BMI
5. BACK UP AND PUSH
Traditional (arr. Emory Lester, Mandovax Music) BMI
6. WIND IN THE LEAVES
Mark Johnson (Bangtown Music) BMI
7. ONE MORNING IN MAY
Hoagy Carmichael/Mitchell Parish (EMI Mills Music Inc./Songs of Peer LTD) BMI
8. BOOTH SHOT LINCOLN
Traditional (arr. Mark Johnson, Bangtown Music) BMI
9. DARCY FARROW
Steve Gillette/Tom Campbell (Compass Rose Music) BMI, (Rumpole Dumple Music) ASCAP
10. TEMPERANCE REEL
Traditional (arr. Mark Johnson, Bangtown Music) BMI