Johnny J Blair "Steinbeck Found the Valley"

For me, Steinbeck is "pure California” and “pure Americana.” “Steinbeck Found the Valley” is an Americana instrumental I composed, prompted by a line from The Beach Boys's "California Saga": "Have you ever been down Salinas way where Steinbeck found the valley, and he wrote about the way it was, and his travelings with Charley..." The music bed was inspired by a Beach Boys outtake “Trombone Dixie” (from the PET SOUNDS sessions) and other SMILE-era instrumentals.

The images shown are from a farm estate my Dad worked on in Virginia, which worked great for this music even though it alludes to California.

On this track I played accordion and piano with cellist Kim Osterwalder (from the band Flophouse; she also gigged with mutual friends, Buddy & Julie Miller) + trombonist Richard Marriott, who improvised his parts in two takes. Richard is an accomplished composer and veteran of big bands, orchestras, fringe music, and film soundtracks—check out his work. One day in 2011, I was at the 7 Mile House in Brisbane CA. It was a live jam session with a group of musicians doing Bob Marley’s “No Woman No Cry.” Suddenly, a hot trombone solo burst out of nowhere. I turned around to find Richard, surprising me after I hadn’t set eyes on him in years…and here he is “now”—

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Music composed by Johnny J. Blair copyright 1990 publishing pending

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