122325	In the middle of several 
collaborations that should begin to yeild 
fruit in 2026.

122125	"She Caught Car Lights" is on 
Nick Tann's Fresh Music Fix's 
<a href="https://nicktannsfreshmusicfix.com/index.php/2025/12/22/stand-out-tracks-2025/">Stand Out Tracks of 2025.</a>

120325	Skalimba now available for 
streaming on <a href="https://johnnymarie.bandcamp.com/track/skalimba">BandCamp</a> &
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-634339154/skalimba">Soundcloud</a>

120125	Got a second mix back from 
Pat Tomek.  We're one more edit from 
being done.

113025	Got a mix for Skalimba from 
Pat.  Sent back a few comments.

112125	Featured weekend artist on 
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/DiversifyTheRadio">Diversify the Radio</a>

111825	<a href="https://nicktannsfreshmusicfix.com/index.php/2025/11/17/ep43/">She Caught Car Lights review on 
Nick Tann's Fresh Music Fix</a>

111325	Recorded the Christmas show for 
SoundCheck.  Included the two new JMLP 
songs.  Sat down with Keith Washburn at 
KKFI afterwards and played them again.

111225	A reminder that I sold a Roland 
Juno-106 to pay for the mixing and mastering 
of Her Bows.

110425	November 13th Patrick and I will be 
recording a 2 hour Christmas show for 
Chris RedJam's SoundCheck and then 
dropping in at KKFI for a 1 hour live sit-down 
with DJ Keith Washburn to play some new 
music from Girl for Samson and Johnny 
Marie & the Lonesome Petunias.

Starting some new collaborations with 
local, national and international artists.  
Terrifying and exhilarating.

110125	SKThumb is now Skalimba and 
has hurridly been sent to Pat before I add any 
more parts to it.

103125	Worked on SKThumb all day and 
nearly have it finished.  Just to need to comp 
the lead vocals and off to Pat it goes.  Also 
needs a new title!

103025	Sent Pat a rough mix of where I'm
at with SKThumb.  Hoping to have it finished 
and in his hands next week.

102925	<a href="https://johnnymarie.bandcamp.com/track/shut-up-you-crazy-diamond">Shut Up You Crazy Diamond</a> now 
available for streaming on our BandCamp 
account.  Also on <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-634339154/shut-up-you-crazy-diamond?si=5d5e3c1822f74ca7b3c6cc7e155a1d8e&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing">SoundCloud.</a>

102425	Anticipating getting a first mix of 
Shut Up, You Crazy Diamond from Pat today.

101125	Dave loaned me an electric thumb 
piano a few weeks ago and just had a chance 
to play with it today.  Recorded a sweep into 
the SK-1.  Added some famous SK-1 flute, 
live drums, 2 bass parts and a sampled vocal.

100725	I've always wanted to do a better 
version of "Ordinary Guy" from the Petunias' 
2nd album Her Bows.  We recorded the drum 
tracks for it so it will appear on the next JMLP 
album.

100125	She Caught Car Lights out now on 
<a href="https://johnnymarie.bandcamp.com/track/she-caught-car-lights">BandCamp</a> and <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-634339154/she-caught-car-lights">SoundCloud.</a>

093025	Got a good drum take for Swimmers 
Shoulders.

092625	Got a fresh mix of She Caught Car 
Lights from Patrick with my edits from yesterday.

092525	Got a mix of She Caught Car Lights
from Patrick.

092425	Back on the horse recording-wise.
Got a decent take of Swimmers Shoulders.
Should it be Swimmer's Shoulders or 
Swimmers' Shoulders?  Miss Taylor!  Miss 
Taylor!  *waves hand*

091825 Tune into Mister Jones on Friday on 
Android & Apple, www.smartradio101.com, Alexa, 
Virgin TV & MyTuner Radio.  Neil will be playing 
Girl for Samson and something from the Johnny 
Marie & the Lonesome Petunias catalog.

091625 DAW down.

090925 Re-learned Swimmers Shoulders for 
next week.

090525 Sent Danny a lead vocal for The 
Last Moth.

090325 Sang a few takes of The Last Moth for 
a reference track.  Wrote the 2nd verse.

090225 Had another go at Who Is This Plumber? 
to try to get it down from 12 minutes to 8.  We 
might have succeeded.

We've had a few challenges moving Pro Tools 
sessions back and forth between my old 
Windows 7 desktop and Danny's brand new Mac.  
The most recent thing we learned is that my 
78 year-old version of Pro Tools doesn't want 
ANY unknown plug-ins.  Most it will give you the 
option of buying or discarding but Danny 
had some MIDI keyboard tracks that would blow up 
Pro Tools every time.  Removed them on his end 
and all is good.

083025 Failure to Rise on FlyFlew Radio today.

082925 A quick call with Pat for some Shut Up 
You Crazy Diamond mixing questions.

082725 Had another go at a spirited live guide 
track for Plumber.  Got it sorted and left Danny 
and Jerry to try to replace the drums with an 
isolated performance.

082025 Sent Pat the session for Shut Up 
You Crazy Diamond.  This is only my second 
time in 25 years using someone other than
Patrick Meagher.  I've had nightmares about 
this day.

081925 We started recording a guide 
track for Who Is This Plumber?  This is at 
least the third time this has happened.  I gave 
one version to Jerry to finish, we lost one and 
then last night's effort. We had a lot of 
challenges but should be good to go next 
week.

081725 Supposed to be finishing Crazy 
Diamond for Pat but I am suddenly unhappy 
with the bridge melody so going to at least 
give him an option.

081425 Met with Pat Tomek to talk about 
mixing the balance of the Lonesome Petunias 
stuff while Patrick is swamped with Flower 
Pots, Johnny Marie, Girl for Samson and 
Telly Tavares songs.  Sent him a current mix 
of Shut Up You Crazy Diamond and he's up 
for it so were going to start with that little ditty 
and see how it goes.

081325 Re-learned The Last Moth, rehearsed 
it, recorded a guide track and 2 keeper drum 
takes.

081125 Getting closer on Shut You Crazy 
Diamond.  Sang more takes over the 
weekend and added piano, acoustic guitar and 
synths.

Meeting with a sound engineer on Wednesday 
for Petunias stuff.

080525 We listened to Shut Up You Crazy 
Diamond several times and signed off on it.  
I just need to merge the sessions, re-sing it and 
then off it goes.

Here Come The Real Flower Pots out everywhere 
now.

072925 Arrived at our space with an unsure agenda 
and a keyboard player that we have been talking to 
casually showed up.  Had a long talk and then ran 
through some things.  Decided to work with him (and 
vice versa) at the very least on finishing these 
recordings.

071525 Recorded bass and drums 
(simultaneously) for Shut Up You Crazy 
Diamond.  

I listened to Laundry Day and Lethal Portions, 
which were designated ready to be sent off 
to be mixed, and now feel that they are too long.  
Either need to add some amusements or do 
some cutting.

071125 Love appearing on Grove Radio 
(98.5 KOGR-LP) 
<a href="https://oakgroveradio.com/shows/local-legends/">Local Legends</a> list with a lot 
of other great regional talent like Get Smart, 
Ultimate Fakebook, Amanda Fish, Blacklight 
Animals & Headlight Rivals. 

Talking to sound designers about 
mixing/mastering Lonesome Petunias stuff.  
Patrick is buried with Girl for Samson, The 
Real Flower Pots, Telly Tavares and my solo 
stuff.

070825 Our first session in months.Jerry kept 
demanding that we play stuff from The Green 
Paino.  Ran through:

Little Something
Sweet & Low
Who is this Plumber?
Beat Box Caveat
Mother
Seven Little Eyes
nothingood
Ask

070725 An interview with Nick Spacek 
about The Real Flower Pots in the current 
issue of <a href="https://www.thepitchkc.com/local-composers-patrick-meagher-and-johnny-marie-combine-their-unfinished-work-into-an-unforgettable-project/">The Pitch.</a>
On stands now.

062225 Sent Don Juan to Patrick.

070825 The Petunias gather tonight for the 
first time in over a month while everyone 
was enjoying some vacation time.

061125 I'm well past the fun part of song 
development where you just layer on 
everything that occurs to you. I'm now mired 
in the carving away and correction stage.  
Had a bit of inspiration by starting a 
troublesome melodic line at the 9th to force 
me out of my ass groove.  Worked 
wonderfully.

060525 Sent Don Juan off to Danny from 
a little spice in the outro.

052625 I was in Colorado a couple of 
weeks ago and developed a song with 
The Mac on an open tuned 12 string 
and John on mandolin.  I have it nearly 
finished.  Some lyric tweaks, re-sing, 
drums, hand percussion - off to Patrick.

052525 I sang some backing vocals on 
the first Random Angryfish release "Falling" 
that is out now.

050525 First session in a couple of weeks 
and the last for a few weeks.  Mostly did 
whimsical style conversions on songs I could 
remember - Land Ho, No Limes, You Set It Off, 
Repeat, Billy Corgan's Cadillac, Plumber and 
so on.

041325 Car Lights is now in Patrick's hands.
I'm going to finish a Telly Tavares song and 
then get back to work on some Real Flower 
Pots stuff.

041225 Tidied up She Caught Car Lights 
to hand off to Patrick on Monday.

040925 <a href="https://archive.org/details/199128/MASTERPIECES_FROM_THE_INDIE_VOID_3/199144.flac">JMLP's "Seven Little Eyes" on Radio Ether - San Francisco local bands 80s-90s.</a>

040825 Got bass recorded for Crazy 
Diamond.  Ran into trouble with drums.
Hope to get stuff sorted by next week.

040125 DAW issues so we just played.  Beat 
Box Caveat, You Set it Off, Little Something, 
The Cats of Summer and some jammy stuff 
that I had on my phone.

033125 Getting Shut Up You Crazy Diamond 
ready for tomorrow night.  80 BPM!

032625 Happy birthday John Evans, Michael 
Meyer and Jupiter.

032525 Dave had another run at bass parts for
She Caught Car Lights since drums were added.
Also did a test run on the new live recording set-up 
and found it to be lovely.

032425 Discovered Brian D'Addario (from The 
Lemon Twigs) last week.  I like his solo album a 
bit better than what I heard from the Twigs.  The 
Twigs are a little like Jellyfish to me.  Interesting 
song/chord construction, warmly derivative, sterling 
performances (especially vocally) but I don't feel a 
connection to the songs lyrically.  Perhaps a lack 
of mystery.

032025 Sorted out some lyrics in Car Lights and 
produced the artwork.

031825 Added some more vocals, EP and hand 
percussion to She Caught Car Lights and sent a 
mix to the Mournful Marigolds.

031625 Jerry is tracking drums on She Caught 
Car Lights.

030925

Johnny Marie is a singer-songwriter from Kansas City, 
Missouri. Their music is available on Spotify, Apple 
Music, Amazon Music, and Pandora. 

Music:
Songs: "Bobby", "Evaluate 29", "Dingus", "Sweet, Soft Gollum", 
"I Can Walk", "Lighthouse Eve" 

Albums: Sweet, Soft Gollum (2023), Blind Cat Missing (2024) 

Bands: Johnny Marie & the Lonesome Petunias, Girl for Samson, 
The Real Flower Pots, Telly Tavares

Influences: The Beatles, Radiohead, and Elvis Costello. 

Other information:
Johnny Marie has a SoundCloud account 
Johnny Marie has an Instagram account 
Johnny Marie has a Facebook page 
Johnny Marie's music is available on Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Pandora 
Johnny Marie has written songs for Telly Tavares, The Real Flower Pots, 
The Lonesome Petunias, Girl for Samson, Big Perm, Boxes of Love, 
This Jungle, Porps, and The Wilsons 

Johnny Marie's song "Bobby" explores identity's fluidity 

030525 Hey!  Why isn't this guy posting more?  Did he 
 get kicked out of show business?  Nope, I 
 just journal in a lot of different places.

 <a href="http://TellyTavares.com">Telly Tavares</a> is 2 songs into a debut album:

 <a href="http://GirlforSamson.com">Girl for Samson</a> just released their 5th 
 album "Blend All the Seasons."

 <a href="http://RealFlowerPots.com">The Real Flower Pots</a> are a few songs away 
 from releasing their debut album "Here Come 
 The Real Flower Pots."
 
 The Lonesome Petunias have some stuff going 
 on too.

021125 Danny came over to add guitars to She Caught 
 Car Lights.

021025 I've used a Rode NT1-A Condenser microphone
 on just about every Johnny Marie album.  I tried a 
 Audio Technica AT4040 Condenser microphone
 and am sold.

020725 Sent the session to Jerry so that he can add 
 drums to the new song.  Danny is coming over 
 next week to add some jazzy solos.  We're 
 doing this old school.

020625 Added some vocal melodies to the Dave song.

020425 Dave came over and tracked bass on a song that 
 I recorded on my phone at a rehearsal.

012625 I miss Thomas Montgomery, Cris Walkinshaw, Jill Fetterman and Andrew Oliver.  I dream about them all the time.

011025 Colorful review of Bobby by 
 <a href="https://bsideguys.com/2025/01/10/surreal-storytelling-johnny-maries-bobby-blends-dream-and-reality/">B-SIDE-GUYS</a>.

010725 Dingus in rotation at 
 Radio Wigwam.

 The Cats of Summer on 
 The Ross Radio Show 
 airing today on:

 Daz In The Hat Radio
 9AM BST - 10AM CET & 9PM BST - 10PM CET
 https://dazinthehat.com

 Wicked Rock Radio
 2PM EST - 8PM CET
 https://wickedrockradio.weebly.com

010625 The Cats of Summer 
 on <a href="https://www.middtownmusicradio.com/">Middtown Music's 
 Premiere Wednesday 
 show</a> January 8 between 
 12pm and 2pm EST.

010525 Johnny Marie Music on the 
 <a hef="https://www.facebook.com/events/942828257818364">Tony Ross Radio Show</a> on
 <a hef="https://dazinthehat.com/">Daz in the Hat Radio</a>, 
 <a hef="https://www.middtownmusicradio.com/">MiddTown Music Radio</a> and 
 <a hef="https://howlingrockradio.weebly.com/">Howling Rock Radio</a>.

010325 Thank you so much to the 
 <a hef="https://www.facebook.com/events/942828257818364">Tony Ross Radio Show</a> for 
 sharing my work.

010225 Coincidence?

 Johnny Marie and the 
 Lonesome Petunias have a 
 song called "Jackson 
 Browne". You can listen to the 
 song on Spotify. 

 Jackson Browne is also the 
 name of a songwriter who wrote 
 the song "In the Shape of a 
 Heart" and co-wrote the Eagles' 
 debut single, "Take It Easy".