"As the sun sets behind the aging, crooked grin of the Detroit skyline, a poet contemplates the coming stars from a bench on the other shore. In the distance, he can hear a band sing 'I'm crosing you in style someday...' and the poet knows it's true."
Johnny Broadway is a Canadian singer-songwriter originally from Windsor, Ontario who finds his home these days in the heart of the prairies, Winnipeg, Manitoba. His upcoming album Room 213 explores the lives of people on the road, coming or going, searching for and finding their way home.
Room 213 includes eleven stories that all happen in or around one motel room in Grand Forks, North Dakota, including a cleaning maid, an affair, a runaway, a Christmas visit, a special phone call, a road trip, car troubles, a criminal running from the law, and the law catching up with him.
Johnny has been described as everything from "Bob Dylan meets Leonard Cohen", "Paul McCartney meets Andy Kaufman", to "a young Robert Smith" but comparisons aside, Johnny is one songwriter and performer who is "impossible to dislike and impossible to ignore."
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