VARIOUS QUOTES AND LINKS FROM OVER THE YEARS ABOUT MISSY JOHNSON:

Album Review: Noise to Keep-

 ”Every generation needs a rock goddess and Boston’s Missy Johnson could very well be the woman to wear that mantle for this generation.  She’s got the looks to go with the pipes and her music is loaded with sultry and steamy sex.  Her debut EP, Noise to Keep makes it clear from the first song that she won’t be found in a kitchen cooking and preggo anytime soon.  Opening the album is Stole Your Thunder, her response to some dumbassed guy who thinks she’s obscene for dancing on bars like the ladies of Coyote Ugly.  The driving bass is the heart of the tune while the guitars are searing.  Continuing to be the vixen on Badly Behaved,  Johnson literally drops her pants to reveal just how in control she is.  With a smoky and sultry backbeat of the deepest blues, the siren warns, ‘Maybe I’ll love you slowly and then make you wait.’  Not since Bon Scott exploded on the scene has there been a singer with a voice that just oozes sex.  But that is not all Missy has to offer.  She’s a skilled vocalist, Berklee grad, and songwriter who will slam you in your face with a blistering sound and then woo you with sentimentality.”

- The Noise Boston September 2005

“Johnson is anything but past her prime, however. In fact, her career might just be hitting its stride. The singer’s “Boston to Austin” is beginning to get airplay on stations such as 92.5 The River. The song has a definite country hook to it, a style Johnson once resisted in favor of rock and blues.”

- The Nashua Telegraph, February 28th, 2008- Nashua Native’s Blossoming Career hits Garden

“Last month, Johnson’s friend and mentor, Grammy award-winning engineer Terry Becker passed away after a long illness.  The show is dedicated to her.  Johnson said Becker, a professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston when they met four years ago, would want to do what she does best: Bring a blistering hard rock, blues-soaked show to audiences, rather than get all sentimental. ‘She had such an impact on me, both personally and professionally,’ Johnson said.  ‘She said she fell in love with Tell me When You’re Ready (one of Johnson’s first songs) because it reminded her of early Bonnie Raitt.’  Becker worked for several years with Raitt i the 1970’s and with Kansas on their ‘Point of no Return’ album, along with a host of other artists through the years.  When it came time for Missy to lay the tracks for her album, Noise to Keep, Becker was integral in the recordings.”

-Hollis Rocker Plays Nashua night Spot Friday, Hollis-Brookline Journal, January 2006

“Missy fires the first shot of the night taking the stage touching off an inferno with her rendition of a Tracy Bonham classic.  Her voice is in top form from the opening note until the last vibrations of her sound waves shimmer their way out onto Landsdowne Street and beyond.  And she has a hot band of musicians to bolster those tremendous pipes.  Sizzling guitar riffs, shimmering bass notes and pounding drums are the perfect ingredient to go with Missy’s lead and her pal’s harmonies.  She is definitely an artist one should pay attention to and catch live so you can say you saw her when.  She brings onstage Tom Deis of Via Audio who played guitar on her studio album.  his deft fingers trickle across the frets churning out leads on her final song, Let Me Fall.”

-The Noise Boston, live review 10/3/05

“‘It was…great,’ the Hollis native said about her set on the stage where the likes of The Ramones, Blondie, and The Talking Heads got their start in the 1970’s. ‘Its like a rite of passage.  The place is such a hole, (band) stickers were all over everything.  it was unbelievably rock and roll.’  Johnson and her mates played at midnight and ripped such a searing set that she got a call for her first encore…so she and her band played one of her favorite songs, What is and What Should Never Be, a Led Zeppelin classic…  Tonight the Vivacious Johnson will unpack her gear and unleash her bluesy rock rhythms nearer to home. ‘I love New Hampshire and I’m excited to be back playing Manch-Vegas,’ Johnson said.”

-From CBGB’ to the Hogs Trough, Hollis’ Missy Johnson Rocks Her Way Home, Hollis-Brookline Journal June 2005

“New Hampshire native and Berklee grad Missy Johnson kicks off the night with down home rock ‘n roll.  The sexy and sultry Johnson covers Bad Company’s 1975 smash “Feel like Makin’ Love” and with her moves and luscious voice has many forgetting who originally did the song and hoping Johnson is singing to them”

-Roots of Creation, Myster DL, Primary Others, Missy Johnson live at the Middle East 11/2/04 The Noise Boston Review

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Missy sings for Steven Tyler and Diane Reeves: 2003 Commencement- Singing on the Edge