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Johnny Marie & the Lonesome Petunias
began as a recording project in
2014 with singer/songwriter Johnny Marie
(The Wilsons,Porps, This Jungle, Boxes of Love,
Big Perm, Girl for Samson, Real Flower Pots
& Telly Tavares), bassist Dave Swiercinsky and
Mike Tankersley on keyboards. Allen Johnston was
added later as theprimary recording drummer on
juiceboxberries, Her Bows, Gardenaire &
Land Ho.
In fall of 2017 Bryan Mace was added as a
percussionist and the band began performing
spirited acoustic interpretations of the songs
live in Kansas City Metro venues.
In late 2018 Shannon Swift (vocals and
keyboards) and Daniel Button (guitar,
keyboards and vocals) joined the live version
of the group.
Drummer Jerry Riccardi joined the band
full time in the autumn of 2019 as our live
drummer and split drumming duties wtih Allen
on 2020's "The Green Piano."
Percussionist Carl Cherrito was briefly in the
lineup in November, 2020.
The EP "Sauro!" was released in 2024.
Johnny Marie's first solo album "Sweet, Soft Gollum"
was released in 2023 with musicians Chris Ruzich,
Danny Button, Jerry Riccardi, Allen Johnston, Dave
Storms, Leon Kopilevich, Patrick Meagher and Bill
Ryan.
Johnny Marie's second solo album "Blind Cat Missing"
was released in 2024.
Johnny Marie & the Lonesome Petunias are currently
piling up songs for a seventh album.
You can find upcoming performances here.
Johnny Marie & the Lonesome Petunias Discography
juiceboxberries (08/09/16)
Her Bows (10/31/16)
Gardenaire (05/05/17)
Land Ho (10/20/18)
The Green Piano (11/6/20)
SAURO! (01/27/24)
Sweet, Soft Gollum (08/9/23)
Blind Cat Missing (03/05/24)
All of the albums are available on BandCamp, iTunes,
Spotify, Pandora, Amazon, YouTube
and other popular music streaming and
sales sites. Physical CDs from our catalog
are for sale here.
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