`American’ Music Man
By Lisa Rogers, Times Staff Writer
Published June 29, 2007

A performance in Boaz is like coming home for Damon Johnson.

Damon Johnson first picked up a guitar when he was 11 or 12 years old. He’s 42 now, and he rarely puts down the instrument that has shaped his life. Music is in Johnson’s blood. The Geraldine High School graduate has been a member of the rock band Brother Cane, and he toured the last few years as lead guitarist for superstar Alice Cooper. They opened some shows for the Rolling Stones.

Johnson’s love for music has led him to a different genre with another band, Whiskey Falls, that many of his friends and family will get a chance to see in concert for the first time this weekend in Boaz.

Whiskey Falls plays at 7 p.m. Saturday, opening for the Oak Ridge Boys during the free event on Billy Dyar Boulevard.

Performing in Boaz is like coming home for Johnson.

He graduated from Geraldine in 1982 and graduated two years later from Snead State Community College. He now lives in Alabaster, just south of Birmingham, with his wife, Lynda. They have a 21Ú2-year-old, and he has three teenagers.

“Being able to come to town with a hot new band is so awesome,” Johnson said.

The son of Eujena Collings of Geraldine and Larry Johnson of Georgia, Johnson’s early musical influence was Southern rock, but he believes the country band, Whiskey Falls, is where he needs to be.

Read full Article on Geraldine’s Famous Musical Son, Damon Johnson on the site of teh Gadsden Times..  

http://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/20070629/NEWS/706290301/1049/LIFETIMES

SIDE NOTE: THE AUTHOR OF THE ARTICLE HERE IS LISA ROGERS, FORMERLY LISA ASHLEY, WHO ALSO GRADUATED FROM GERALDINE HIGH SCHOOL.