Johnny Colla

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"Why did you choose to record 'Time Ain’t Money’ for the 'Lucky Devil' album?" 

I’m probably going to bruise a few egos, but in spite of John McFee’s burning, stunning…

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"How did the songs for ‘Lucky Devil’ come about?" 

You know, after a couple decades of songwriting in earnest, by the early nineties I had written and accumulated a lot…

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"What was going on back in 1993 with Huey Lewis & The News when you started work on 'Lucky Devil'?" 

Interesting question! After our ’Small World’ release (and thirteen years…

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"What inspired you to make your own record?" 

Well shoot . . . it’s no secret I’ve always been 'The Guy Who Wanted To Be A Singer In A Band’’…

Johnny: What more could a guy ask for? And thanks for all the birthday wishes.

While putting together my upcoming album “I Hear Other Voices!! (Hardly Strictly A Cappella),” I found an unfinished track . . . BONUS! Huey and The News fans might recognize my arrangement of The Shirelles' “Mama Said” because that’s…

I never really had a lot of vocal "character" until I got older and started beating my voice up a good deal. A lot of singers do that, start smoking and screaming a lot in the shower, all that…

For my solo projects, I could easily sing the lead vocal and all the backing vocals myself, but then it would just sound like 19 Johnny Collas… the sound becomes very homogenous. So the fun for me is to…

"For your solo projects, what do you look for in a backup singer?" 

Johnny: I consider the song. What's the genre? What’s the song’s attitude and the message in the lyrics? What’s the song itself ’telling me’…

"What drives you be so productive?” 

Johnny: I think I'm becoming more fruitful in my, uh, venerable years, and let’s face it; at some point in time you feel like you’re running out of it! I also feel like…