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The Art Of Sourdough
Bread Making
by Kevin Johnson
Our instructional video (DVD) shows how to prepare and bake your own delicious, satisfying whole grain sourdough bread at home.  This is an easy way to provide your family with wholesome, naturally fermented Old World bread for pennies a loaf ... Yeast Free, No preservatives, No oil, No sugar  

 

   

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$35.00 price 
includes:

- DVD CD
- starter culture
- written instructions
- free shipping    
This program shows
you exactly how to get started:

- Preparing leaven
- Grinding wheat
- Kneading & Baking

New !  Kevin and Donna's
100% Whole-Wheat Sourdough Flatbread
Recipe and Starter Culture

Quick, inexpensive, easily digested flatbread in minutes for making wrap sandwiches, breakfast burritos, PB&J sandwiches, enchiladas, for dipping hummus or bean dip, etc.  For $10.00, postage included, you will receive a package of dried heirloom sourdough starter culture, handmade by us, and the flatbread recipe and instructions.  Also included are our special recipes for whole-wheat pancakes, muffins, sourdough biscuits and sprouted wheat zucchini pancakes.              

price $10.00 for recipes and starter

includes shipping and handling
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Just Released July 2010


 


Audio CD  price :  @ $12.00   includes shipping and handling

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Gilead Valley CD
Original Country Blues

Kevin Johnson - acoustic guitars, ukulele, percussion & vocals
Steve 'Scratch' Smith - acoustic lead guitar & harmonica
Robert 'Doc' Chaney - fiddle / Joel Whitten - Bass, Keyboards

"The songs I write here came out of my own soul search for reason, and the passion I feel about embracing the old traditions.  The songs are presented in the form of country blues because I really like the directness and honesty of the blues, continuing the folk process by writing lyrics that apply today"

The Play List        sample mp3's

Gilead Valley

Saddle Up My Pony

Tree of Life

Delia's Gone (traditional P.D.)

Biscuit Roller Blues          

Essene Cakewalk

It's All The Same

Angels Are Calling            

Have A Good One

Muddy River Blues

Been Going Nowhere       

** Recorded at Joel Whitten’s Metal Shed Studio, 
Baton Rouge, Louisiana (May 2010)

Engineered by Joel Whitten, All songs written by Kevin Johnson, except where noted













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Photo by John Baute

Blues & Bread CD

Kevin Johnson – acoustic guitars, harmonica and vocals  
Bill Tidwell – harmonica on 
Blood Red River & Death Letter Blues  


 “Blues and Spirituals are like the inside and outside of 
the same loaf of bread.  
Each one nourishes you in its’ own way. 
Here are some of my favorite songs to play.”

The Play List

Blood Red River 
(Brownie McGhee) **


Death Don’t Have No Mercy (Rev. Gary Davis) *

Vestapol (traditional) **

I Am A Pilgrim (Merle Travis) *

Whinin’ Boy Blues (Jelly Roll Morton) **

Lift Me Gentle, Lord (Deborah Haines) *  

My Lord, What a Morning (traditional spiritual – Matthew 24:29) *
Death Letter Blues (Son House) **  


Hard Time Killing Floor (Skip James) **
 
All I Ask of You (Gregory Norbert O.S.B.) *  
Sportin’ Life Blues (Brownie McGhee) ** 
 
Be Thou My Vision (traditional Irish tune, lyrics by Eleanor Hull) *
 








Audio CD  price :  @ $12.00
   includes shipping and handling 


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Photo by John Baute

Songs from the Bakery CD

All songs written in the bakery by Kevin Johnson except where noted…
Kevin Johnson – acoustic guitars, harmonica, 
dulcimer, percussion and vocals  

Timothy Bordelon – electric lead guitars  
Randy Walsh – violin, cello  
Bill Tidwell – harmonica on Litterbuggin’ People Blues  
Bob Hutchinson – percussion, shakers, spoons, bells  
Joel Whitten – Keyboards, conga drums on The Primal Heart  
Donna Johnson – recorder flute

The Play List

Moth to Flame 
(by Tim Bordelon)
/ Fire of Life (by Kevin Johnson)  
Another Me 
Oak Leaf Wine 

Cherishing A Moment (written on a mountain in N.M.)
 

Such A Long Time  

The Primal Heart 
(written in the studio by Kevin & Donna Johnson)  
Timeless Wanderer
  
Litterbuggin’ People Blues 
   
Song From the Other Side  

Don’t Want Your Microchip, Mister  

Patience 
(recorded live at the Unitarian Church, BR, LA)
 

Waiting Blues
(Recorded at Joel Whitten’s Metal Shed Studio,
Baton Rouge, Louisiana,  5-17-2009)
      

Reviews:

"My favorite segment of the night was Kevin Johnson’s set of old time Blues from the era of race records, things like Willie Brown’s 1930 song “M&O Blues” and what Johnson’s coyly called a “half-ass approximation of Reverend Gary Davis’ ‘Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning.’” There is nothing half-ass about the jazzy yet reverent air Johnson breathes into these songs. He brought Bill Tidwell and his harmonica to the stage to perform Brownie McGhee’s “Blood Red River,” one of the many the duos performed on Johnson’s CD [Blues and Bread]." Alex V. Cook

Country Roads Magazine, Aug., 2009

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"Hi, this is A.S.R.,
I don't know if you remember, but we met at the Baton Rouge farmers' market back in August. You were busking 
and my buddy and I sat and talked to you and listened to your music for an hour or so, and you gave us a copy 
of your CD. I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed it. We listen to it all the time, and it has a special 
spot in my CD book right next to Robert Johnson, Fred McDowell, and Blind Boy Fuller. It's really great, you put 
a hell of a lot of emotion and energy into the music. Your version of Death Letter gives me goosebumps, man. ....."

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We will send you our mailing address and the order total, ASAP
.

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