From the beginning of Jack Johnson’s career, he has been a laid back self proclaimed beach bum spitting tunes of soft rock and reggae infused music. Born and raised in Hawaii, Jack Johnson learned how to play guitar at age 14 and began song writing at 16. Johnson credits his songwriting influences as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Radiohead, Otis Redding, G. Love and Special Sauce, Ben Harper, Sublime, The Beatles, Bob Marley, Neil Young, and A Tribe Called Quest. Jack Johnson is also a professional surfer and movie director with his surfing documentary “Thicker than Water” another movie “The September Sessions" and starred in “A Brokedown Melody.”
In Between Dreams
Jack Johnson shows his roots in songs such as Better Together, Good People, and Do You Remember, through the use of cleaver rhyme, interesting unrelated lyrics and his upbeat tone. Jack is able to infuse his beach bum mentality and soft push of morals onto his CD “In Between Dreams” by showing the simple pleasures and asks the big questions with the childlike innocence that only someone living in a literal paradise could muster. The formula on “In Between Dreams” doesn't vary much from Johnson's previous albums, but is no less engaging, delicately strummed acoustic guitar, round bass lines, and gently funky drum patterns form a comforting bed for the Hawaii native's effortlessly soulful R&B-meets-folk vocals. In songs such as Sitting, Waiting, Wishing Johnson playfully asks questions on how a person is able to hope blindly and love those around him or her and still produce a catchy tune that’ll play in your head for hours.
