It’s no secret that Fruit Bats’ Eric D. Johnson is an insanely prolific songwriter. On top of being a core member of the Grammy-nominated group Bonny Light Horseman, Johnson has released six ...

Eric D. Johnson has a very practical reason why he started recording his music in 1997 under the name Fruit Bats and has (mostly) kept it ever since. "I have an extremely ordinary name, for one thing.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "They say a bird in the hand is worth somethin', but I forget what," Eric D. Johnson sings on "The Saddest Part of the Song," the ...

Singer-songwriter Eric D. Johnson’s band project Fruit Bats are like a musical geyser, the Old Faithful of the indie rock scene. At nearly the rate of every other year he and his cohorts release an ...

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As musician Eric Johnson approached the 20th anniversary of “Echolocation,” the debut album by his indie folk rock band Fruit Bats, he felt it was as good a time as any to do some reflecting. Johnson ...

“And the words to this song, while geographically specific/They could apply to anywhere, or any of you.” With those opening lines to the single “Waking Up in Los Angeles,” Eric D. Johnson helpfully ...

Fruit Bats, the long-running project of Chicago singer/songwriter Eric D. Johnson, had a packed indoor crowd at our Paste Party in Austin in the palm of his hand at High Noon. Johnson, who has also ...

A little bit ago, Merge co-founder Mac McCaughan suggested that two of his artists -- Mackenzie Scott of Torres and Eric D. Johnson of Fruit Bats -- work on something together. That something turned ...