Album #12 "Be a Light in Darkness" (Feb 14, 2026)

1 Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee) 4:28
2 Washington Bullets 3:40
3 When Johnny Goes off to War 3:31
4 The Immigrant Waltz 4:53
5 Slip Jig: The Four Children 2:15
6 Compassion, Truth and Love 3:23
7 Into the Unknown 3:43
8 Like a Sagittarian 3:31
9 Center of My Universe 1:07
10 See the Stars 6:31
11. Wish 3:38
12. Be a Light in Darkness 2:59

All words & music written by Eric Ryan-Johnson, 
except "Washington Bullets" by Topper Headon, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon & Joe Strummer
and "Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportees)" by Woody Guthrie
with additional lyrics by Eric Ryan-Johnson
Produced & recorded by Eric Ryan-Johnson
Empyrean Mist Records
©Ⓟ 2026 Eric Ryan-Johnson
BMI Music Licensing

Singles from "Be a Light in Darkness" (2025-2026)

"Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportees)"
(single) (7/4/2025)
"Washington Bullets"
(single) (8/1/2025)
"Into the Unknown"
(single) (8/29/2025)
"When Johnny Goes Off to War"
(single) (10/03/2025)
"The Immigrant Waltz"
(single) (11/07/2025)
"Like a Sagittarian"
(single) (12/10/2025)
"See the Stars"
(single) (1/9/2026)
"Center of My Universe" (Single Version)
(single) (2/13/2026)
Available from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, etc

Song "American Apocalypse"
Jrobthelaw & Whyfyre (featuring Eric Ryan-Johnson)

"American Apocalypse"
Available from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, etc

Single "A Wounded Heart"
Elzie Hickerson (featuring Eric Ryan-Johnson)

"A Wounded Heart" (single) (8/15/2025)
Available from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, etc

Single "Spanish Sunset" (and on the album "The Road to Kenwood Hills")
Clayton Ussery (featuring Eric Ryan-Johnson & Erica Parker)

"Spanish Sunset"
(single & album version) (5/15/2025)
Recorded at The Church Studio - Tulsa OK
Available from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, etc

Album #11
"Killers" (Feb 14, 2025)

1 Killers 3:15
2 Complicity 4:37
3 What Can I Do? (feat. Jrobthelaw) 2:55
4 Amerika 3:25
5 Twenty-Two 3:43
6 Hopeless 3:20
7 1921 5:23
8 Someone 6:21
9 Animals 2:30
10 Happy 2:42
11. Better Humans 4:15

All words & music written by Eric Ryan-Johnson, except
"What Can I Do?" written by Jrobthelaw & Eric Ryan-Johnson
Produced & recorded by Eric Ryan-Johnson
Empyrean Mist Records
©Ⓟ 2025 Eric Ryan-Johnson
BMI Music Licensing

Singles from "Killers" (2024-2025)

"Killers" (single) (1/10/2025)
"What Can I Do?" (feat. Jrobthelaw)
(1/20/2025)
"Happy" (12/30/2024)
Picture
"Amerika" (12/9/2024)
"Animals" (11/25/2024)
"Better Humans" (11/4/2024)

Single "A'ohe Inoa"

"A'ohe Inoa"
(7/23/2024)

Single "Nightfall"
Elzie Hickerson (featuring Eric Ryan-Johnson)

"Nightfall" (6/8/2024)

  • Singles
  • Jeff M. Evans (featuring Eric Ryan-Johnson)

"Burns Like Hell When You Play with Fire" (8/7/2023)
"Ghost Tree of Bandon" (5/19/2024)
Available from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, etc

Album #10
"Eric Ryan-Johnson" (2023)

1 The Empathy Song 3:10
2 Nothing is Forever 4:05
3 Tell Me the Way to Your Heart 3:15
4 Barely Holding it Together 3:39
5 Hypocrite 3:38
6 Sixth Sense 2:36
7 Beauty's on the Inside 2:40
8 Memento Mori 6:03
9 Here Comes the Rain Again 4:14
10 Just for You 3:10
11 Sixth Sense (Single Version) 3:54
12 The Empathy Song (Radio Edit) 3:10

All words & music written by Eric Ryan-Johnson, except
"Here Comes the Rain Again" by ©1983 Annie Lennox & David A. Stewart
Used by permission - Easy Song Licensing
Produced & recorded by Eric Ryan-Johnson
Empyrean Mist Records – manufactured by CDBaby
©Ⓟ 2023 Eric Ryan-Johnson
BMI Music Licensing
Available from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, etc

Singles from "Eric Ryan-Johnson" (2023)

Available from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, etc

Album #8
"Thinking Less About Negatives" Volume 1 (2023) - 5/20/23

1 Goodbye, Girl 3:53
2 But Don't Turn 'Round to Blame Me 3:45
3 Reel: The Coffin Ships 3:01
4 All I Want for Christmas, Baby 2:18
5 I'll Remember You 3:55
6 How Would You Feel? 4:43
7 Your Father's Daughter 3:11
8 Backstabber 4:15
9 One of Your Casualties 8:36
10 Blackjack 21 4:16
11 Without You 2:31
12 Drive East (Single Version) 2:20
13 I Believed in You 2:59
14 Factory Settings 3:28
15 Rearview Mirror 2:17
16 Two Hours out of Nashville 2:56
17 In a Box (Bluegrass Version) 2:56
18 Here Comes the Rain Again 4:14

All words & music written by Eric Ryan-Johnson, except
"Here Comes the Rain Again" by Annie Lennox & David A. Stewart. Used by permission.
Produced & recorded by Eric Ryan-Johnson
Empyrean Mist Records – manufactured by CDBaby
©Ⓟ2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 & 2022 Eric Ryan-Johnson
BMI Music Licensing

Album #9
"Focusing on Positives"
Volume 2 (2023) - 5/20/23

1 To Walk and Talk 2:54
2 You Are My Love 4:56
3 Air: The Farmer of Florence 3:12
4 All of My Life 4:05
5 You Had a Way 4:20
6 I Am Doing Fine? 4:24
7 Just a Lil' Bit of Love 4:13
8 All the Best for You 3:51
9 Come What May (from 'Moulin Rouge') 3:03
10 There's No One as Beautiful as You 5:25
11 I Love Everything About You 3:51
12 You Are the One 3:28
13 In a Box 4:45
14 The Way You View Me 3:45
15 A One-Sided Conversation 2:45
16 Can't Get You Outta My Mind (Country Version) 3:20
17 Sorry Song 3:20
18 The Empathy Song (Radio Edit) 3:11

All words & music written by Eric Ryan-Johnson, except
“The Sorry Song” @1988 Marques Bovre. Used by permission.
Produced & recorded by Eric Ryan-Johnson
Empyrean Mist Records – manufactured by CDBaby
©Ⓟ2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 & 2022 Eric Ryan-Johnson
BMI Music Licensing
Available from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, etc

Singles (Remastered) (2023)

Available from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, etc

Album #7
"Two Hours out of Nashville" (2022)


1 Anna’s Lullaby 3:06
2 In a Box (Bluegrass Version) 2:56
3 You Are the One (Acoustic Version) 3:01
4 Goodbye, Girl (Bluegrass Version) 4:11
5 Farewell (Air) 2:52
6 Can’t Get You Outta My Mind (Country Version) 3:20
7 The Way You View Me (Acoustic Version) 3:11
8 Two Hours Out of Nashville 4:15
9 One of Your Casualties (Bluegrass Version) 5:06
10 Your Circus (Acoustic Version) 5:42
11 Sorry Song 3:20
12 All the Best for You/The Words That Were Said
         (bluegrass version) 3:30
13 A'ohe Inoa/Untitled (Instrumental) 2:18
14 Romeo’s Song 0:46
 
All words & music written by Eric Ryan-Johnson, except
“Anna’s Lullaby” @1989 Marques Bovre
“The Sorry Song” @1988 Marques Bovre
Photography by Nathan Harmon
1958 Ford Fairlane courtesy of George & Jana Aveilhe
Produced & recorded by Eric Ryan-Johnson
Empyrean Mist Records – manufactured by CDBaby
©Ⓟ2022 Eric Ryan-Johnson – BMI Music Licensing
Available from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, etc

Singles from "Two Hours out of Nashville" (2022)

Available from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, etc

Album #6
"Waiting" (2022)

1. You Are the One 3:27
2. In A Box 4:45
3. The Way You View Me 3:45
4. I Believed in You 2:59
5. A One-Sided Conversation 2:45
6. Run Away (It Is What It Is) 2:58
7. Waiting 2:46
8. Rearview Mirror 2:17
9. Factory Settings 3:28
10. In My Dreams 5:06
11. Still In My Heart 3:37
12. Waiting (Pt.2) 3:09
Photography by Nathan Harmon - 1958 Ford Fairlane courtesy of George & Jana Aveilhe
Jon Edwards – guest drummer on “Waiting”
All words & music written by Eric Ryan-Johnson
Produced & recorded by Eric Ryan-Johnson
Empyrean Mist Records – manufactured by CDBaby
©Ⓟ2022 Eric Ryan-Johnson – BMI Music Licensing
All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable law.
Available from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, etc

Singles from the album "Waiting"

Available from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, etc

    • Single - by K.A. Mick (featuring Eric Ryan-Johnson)
      "The Girl Who Brought the Poet Out in Me" (2021)

Available from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, etc

Album #5
"Just a Lil' Bit of Love" (2021)
1 Just a Lil' Bit of Love 4:13
2 All the Best for You 3:51
3 Blackjack 21 4:16
4 Seven 1:52
5 Come What May (from "Moulin Rouge") 3:03
6 Why Can't You Still Love Me? 4:20
7 Without You 2:31
8 You 5:09





Album produced & recorded by Eric Ryan-Johnson.
©℗ 2021 Eric Ryan-Johnson. All rights reserved.
Come What May ©2001 David Baerwald & Kevin Gilbert.
Used by permission.
Medley:
9 Take My Confusion 2:20
10 When You Were My Woman and I Was Your Man 1:27
11 Can't Get You Outta My Mind 1:41
12 You Are My Everything 3:07
13 Drive East 1:56
14 Pushing Pulling 1:12
15 Jekyll or Hyde? 1:05
16 Months of My Life 0:29
17 You (Reprise) 0:27
18 The Words That Were Said 0:58
19 All the Best For You (Instrumental) 1:09
20 Memories That Haunt Me 1:29
21 Take My Confusion (Reprise) 1:24
22 The End 2:47
23 Duet 0:33
24 There's No One as Beautiful as You 5:25
25 I Love Everything About You 3:51
Available from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, etc

Singles from "Just a Lil' Bit of Love" (2021)

Available from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, etc

Album #4
"Troubadours & Charlatans" (2020)

Available from Amazon, iTunes, GooglePlay, Spotify, Pandora, etc
1 You Had a Way 4:20
2 Questions 2:56
3 I'll Remember You 3:53
4 Oh, Little One 5:40
5 And You Said You Loved Me Too 2:47
6 Everything You Ever Wanted 3:04
7 Wonder Who You Are 3:05
8 What You Really Need 4:20
9 How Would You Feel? 4:42
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10 Your Father's Daughter 2:47
11 Backstabber 3:52
12 A Life of Mediocrity 2:37
13 Alone 5:19
14 I Am Doing Fine? 4:24
15 Your Circus 7:02
16 Questions (Reprise) 1:28
17 One of Your Casualties 8:35

Words & music by Eric Ryan-Johnson.
 
Produced & recorded by Eric Ryan-Johnson.
©℗ 2020 Eric Ryan-Johnson. All rights reserved.
Available from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, etc

E.P.
"Winter Brings the Snow" (2019)

1 All of My Life 4:05
2 All This Sorrow 4:27
3 All By Myself 4:07
4 All I Want For Christmas, Baby 2:18

Words & music by Eric Ryan-Johnson.
 
Produced & recorded by Eric Ryan-Johnson.
©℗ 2019 Eric Ryan-Johnson. All rights reserved.
Available from iTunes, GooglePlay, Spotify, Pandora, etc
Available from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, etc

Album #3
"Connected by Invisible Strings" (2019)

Available from Amazon, iTunes, GooglePlay, Spotify, Pandora, etc
1 Torn Away* 4:13
2 But Don’t Turn ‘Round to Blame Me 3:34
3 Camels with Humps* 5:03
4 Why? 3:38
5 You Are My Love 4:56
6 Thinking of You 2:26
7 Mr. Negative* 2:20
8 Like a Melody 2:35
9 The Last Things You Said to Me 4:07
10 Vampire Girl 2:09
11 Flirt (in a Skirt)* 2:51
12 Connected by Invisible Strings 2:57
13 Goodbye, Girl 3:52
14 Oh, How I Loved You 2:23
15 To Walk and Talk 2:54

Words & music by Eric Ryan-Johnson, except *lyrics by David Bowman.
 
Produced & recorded by Eric Ryan-Johnson.
©℗ 2019 Eric Ryan-Johnson. All rights reserved.
Available from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, etc

Album #2
"From Within" (2018)

Fiddle, bouzouki, guitar, 6 & 12-string guitars, piano, concertina, bodhran & vocals. Featuring Kelly Lamb, vocals.
Self-composed material - Irish traditional genre.
Mostly original tunes & songs. Kelly Lamb, vocals.
       1 Jigs: The Beginning / A Boy & His Dad / The Yelping Dog 5:22
       2 Song: The Grave 3:13
       3 Reels: Malone on the Wagon / Waiting for Nemo 4:22
       4 Air: The Farmer of Florence 3:12
       5 Reel: The Morning Cup 2:15
       6 Song: A Lady's Misfortune 2:54
       7 Air: February 23 3:04
       8 Slides: Standpipe Hill / A Welcome to Friends 3:06
       9 Reel: The Penultimate Reel 5:03
    10 Song: My Tipsy Tipperary Girl / Reel: The Wise Maid 3:58
     11 Hornpipes: Twenty-Two / The 70-Year Hornpipe 3:44
     12 Polkas: The Eagle Polka / When She is Away / Okay, That's Enough! 5:24
     13 Reels: The End is Near / Bound to Break 3:53
     14 Song: Janey Mac 6:06
     15 Jig: The End 1:21

Eric Ryan-Johnson fiddle, bouzouki, 6&12 string acoustic guitars, concertina, bodhran, vocals
Kelly Lamb vocals (2, 6, 10 & 14)
Michael Roohan vocals (10)
Séamus Ryan-Johnson bodhran  (2, 9, 10, 11 & 13)
 
All music composed by Eric Ryan-Johnson, except "The Yelping Dog" by Séamus Ryan-Johnson, and "The Wise Maid" (traditional).
Produced & recorded by Eric Ryan-Johnson.
©℗ 2018 Eric Ryan-Johnson
All rights reserved.
Available from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, etc

Album #1
"The Wonderful Day" (2018)

Re-recorded & reissued; originally released in 2002)
Fiddle, bouzouki, guitar, 6 & 12-string guitars, piano, concertina, bodhran & vocals. Featuring Kelly Lamb, vocals.
Irish traditional genre.
Mostly traditional Irish tunes & songs. Kelly Lamb, vocals.
       1 Hornpipes: The Wonderful Day / The Bee's Wings 3:52
       2 Jigs: The Knights of St Patrick / Haste to the Wedding / Father O'Flynn's 4:38
       3 Song: The Bard of Armagh 3:04
       4 Reels: The Pretty Girls of Mayo / The Chattering Magpie / The Kosteen 3:00
       5 Air: Melody for Meredith Keefe 1:43
       6 Chanson du Mai / J'ai Perdu ma Navette / Untitled 3:39
       7 Polkas: Knocknaboul #2 / Denis Murphy's 3:03
       8 Song: The Next Market Day 3:40
       9 Reels: Bag of Potatoes / Blacksmith's Reel / Castle Kelly 3:31
    10 Slip Jigs: Aoibhneas Eilís Ní Cheallaigh/Gurgling of the Churn/Humours of Whiskey 3:53    
     11 Air: Caitlin Triall 2:35
     12 Song: Wildwood Flower 4:34
     13 Jigs: The Carraroe / The Metal Bridge 3:24
     14 Waltz: The Beauty Queen 3:52
     15 Song: The Gartan Mother's Lullaby 2:23
     16 Reel: The Coffin Ships 2:28
     17 Reels: Rediggan's / The Humours of Tulla 2:25
                                      
Eric Ryan-Johnson fiddle, bouzouki, 6&12 string acoustic guitars, concertina, bodhran, vocals
Kelly Lamb vocals (3, 8, 15)
Philip Duffy button accordion (2, 17)
Cris Foster banjo (4)
Seamus Ryan-Johnson bodhran (4, 17)
 
Produced & recorded by Eric Ryan-Johnson.
Originally released in 2002.
©℗ 2018 Eric Ryan-Johnson
All rights reserved.
Available from Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, etc

Local 630 with Chad Malone - Labor Songs and Rebel Ballads (2002)

Fiddle.

Hunger No More: A Gift of Irish Music and Song (1997)

Fiddle with the band, Field Day - Minneapolis, MN.
Jode Dowling - fiddle
Eric Ryan-Johnson - fiddle & bouzouki
Kate Wade - whistle
Tom Klein - uillean pipes & acoustic guitar
Sean Egan - keyboard & percussion

Casey Day & Greg Matysik - Give a Smile Away (1993)

With Eric Ryan-Johnson - fiddle

Marques Bovre - Don't Be Afraid (1989)

With Eric Ryan-Johnson - fiddle, acoustic guitar, electric guitar

Marques Bovre - Living and Dying in the Coffee Generation (1988)

With Eric Ryan-Johnson - fiddle, keyboard

Drowning Fishes (1986) - E.P. (cassette only)

1 Anberay 3:40 (by T. Spademan)
2 Clover 2:12 (by S. Olson)
3 Heathens 2:47 (by S. Olson)
4 Never Lie 2:30 (by S. Olson)
5 To Walk and Talk 3:13 (by E. Ryan-Johnson)

Scott Olson - vocals & bass guitar
Tom Spademan - vocals & electric guitar
Eric Ryan-Johnson - vocals & electric guitar
Gary Brillowski - drum set

Band of Mutes (1985) - E.P. (cassette only)

1 Memories
2 Does It Really Matter?
3 Everything We Touch (Turns to Gold)
4 Thinking of You
5 Nothing I Can Say
6 Say Nothing

Eric Ryan-Johnson - vocals, electric guitar, bass guitar, synthesizers