October 3, 2012 8:08 am by: Laurie Gallardo

Photo by Matt Pence.
It's been about eight years since
Will Johnson's last solo album,
Vultures Await, but that doesn't mean he hasn't been busy. The songwriter does double duty as frontman for
Centro-matic (last year, the band released
Candidate Waltz) and
South San Gabriel, and was also recording and touring with
New Multitudes, the
Woody Guthrie project featuring
Anders Parker,
Yim Yames (
Jim James of
My Morning Jacket) and
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