Five Horse Johnson

Five Horse Johnson emerged from Toledo, OH, delivering riff-heavy, down-home, roots-driven middle-American rock & roll that fuses acid blues with Led Zeppelin while folding in touches from the Black Crowes, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Aerosmith, and ZZ Top.

The lineup of Eric Oblander handling harps and vocals, Brad Coffin on guitar, Steve Smith on bass, and Mike Alonso on drums first assembled in 1995 and soon began supporting bills alongside War, Southern Culture on the Skids, Atomic Bitchwax, the Queens of the Stone Age, and R.L. Burnside. Double Down arrived in 1998, followed by the critically acclaimed Fat Black Pussycat in 1999 and The No. 6 Dance, issued on Small Stone Records in 2001.