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Craig Hella Johnson spikes Waterloo sales records
Conspirare founder Craig Hella Johnson broke Waterloo Records release week sales records last week with his new CD, ‘Thorns On The Rose. In less than two hours, 341 CDs were sold at the in-store signing party.
Produced by Michael Hynes of Austin’s Hideout Studios, ‘Thorns’ features Johnson in collaboration with Austin musicians. Eliza Gilkyson, Bukka Allen, Kim Deschamps, Andre Moran and Michael Hynes on pop, folk ballads and art songs with covers of Bob Dylan, Billy Jo Shaver, Eliza Gilkyson and four new Craig Hella Johnson originals set to the poems of Emily Dickinson and Tagore.
You can preview ‘Thorns on the Rose’ here.
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