Ethan Johns is a multi-instrumentalist and producer who played lead guitar in the Poets of Justice, performing at gigs between July 1992 to November 1992. Ethan left The Poets of Justice before the 1st Gathering to concentrate on producing a number of bands. He was the guitarist on the Abbey Road Sessions Recorded Live 7.9.1992 album released in 1995
Prior to the debut of The Poets Of Justice at Moles, Bath, England on 11th July 1992, Mike Peters had joined the Ethan Johns Band on stage and performed a few songs at Hammersmith Odeon, London on 20th March 1992
Ethan Thomas Robert Johns (born 1969 in Merton, London, England) is an English record producer, engineer, mixer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Ethan has worked with artists including Ryan Adams, Kings of Leon, Paul McCartney, Ray LaMontagne, Tom Jones, Kaiser Chiefs, Rufus Wainwright, The Boxer Rebellion, Crowded House, Turin Brakes, Lauren Hoffman, The Vaccines, Laura Marling, The Staves, and Crosby, Stills and Nash. In 2012, he won the Brit Award for Best British Producer
Although Ethan is primarily a record producer, mixer and engineer, the multi-instrumentalist has also toured with other acts including Emmylou Harris, Ryan Adams, Ray LaMontagne and Tom Jones. He owns the indie record label Three Crows Music. Ethan is the son of notable record producer and engineer Glyn Johns
Ethan released his debut solo album Independent Years (1991) followed by If Not Now Then When? on vinyl in November 2012. His second album titled The Reckoning was released in mid-2014, his third album Silver Liner was released in November 2015. His fourth and most recent album Anamnesis was released in 2018
Performance credits :
Abbey Road Sessions Recorded Live 7.9.1992
Released in March 1997 on CD by the Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C003
Lead guitar on all tracks recorded in the closed afternoon and evening audience sessions
Afternoon session (closed): Poetic Justice, Unstoppable, Train A Comin’ What The World Can’t Give Me, Beautiful Thing
Evening session (with audience): This Is War, One World Exodus, All I Wanted, 21st Century, No Better Than This, Spiritual, Refugees in The Westworld, Can’t Get Through, A New Chapter
