The result is an almost indefinable musical pastiche. Johnson, self-taught, is a remarkable guttarist whose unique tunings and willingness to use the-instrument in a host of untraditional ways call up images of John Fahey, Michael Hedges and Pierre Bensusan.
Is it jazz? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. But there's no denying his capacity to swing with the urgent rhythmic drive of jazz, nor his-willingness to expand the envelope of his improvisational style with a musical curiosity comparable to that of the most envelope-stretching jazz experimentalist.