Down in Memphis

Steven Bryan Johnson started playing guitar in 1963 after his Uncle Mickey Johnson played his electric guitar for him. He has played in rock blues bands in California until moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1982, where he met Albert Collins, Willie Dixon, Luther Allison, Duke Robillard, Johnny Winter, and lots of blues players of the Chicago Detroit area. A year later in New York City, Steve formed The Tanks, a Blues Power Trio. Together they recorded 3 independently released albums in the U.S. Steve Johnson also played with Paul Butterfield, Johnny Copeland, Paul Schaeffer,