Requiem For A Musical Everyman

By Michael Willard

Photo by Mitchell Orr on Unsplash

Whatever happened to you, Johnny? What happened after Angela Jones? Could it be things changed a lot when along came the Rolling Stones?

Those were the lines of a song I wrote when the internet trail for Johnny Ferguson went stone cold. Johnny was a one-hit-wonder. On his kitchen table in Nashville, we had worked together on my early lyrical efforts.