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What follows is a condensed and streamlined version of our conversation. When you’re lucky, it touches on something that’s in the social conditions of our time.” When the songs work, it’s because you put your finger on something that someone thought about but hasn’t been able to express. “I found a way to express something that makes sense to me. “By the time I put it out to the world, it’s not like I’m trying to teach anyone a lesson or suggest you do something different,” he told me. Others are more meditative, as in the case of Moonlight’s first track, “Open Mind,” whose melodies and lines were circling around his head for a long time before they landed in a song. They can come quick - his Goleta-based keyboardist Zach Gill might create a loop, and Johnson can lay down lyrics pulled in part from conversations they overheard from hotel balconies on break days. We talked about stoking out a longtime fan in Boulder, how sweet it was to tour with reggae legends Ziggy Marley and Santa Davis, and the different ways that he writes his songs. Last week was the first real interview we’ve done in a long time, and it was great to hear him sound as confident, comfortable, and contemplative as ever.

(Johnson had a ticket to come to the Friendship Paddle for Potter until sick kids kept him at home.) We texted a bit during the depths of the pandemic on the night he played one of those Together at Home concerts on television, and again more recently, when our mutual buddy Chris Potter - who was Johnson’s freshman-year roommate at UCSB - came down with crazy cancer. Backstage hanging at an early Coachella, connecting over strawberries at Fairview Garden, judging a Halloween Gong Show at Restaurant Roy (him a gorilla, me The Dude), and watching my young son dance onstage at the Bowl next to Johnson are just a few of the anecdotes I’ve collected over the years. daze, but I’ve officially been a fan since his first album, Brushfire Fairytales, when we met at his rented house to write my first of what would be many articles about this emergent legend. I’m pretty certain I watched his band Soil in my I.V. But the joy in Johnson is becoming familiar with the lyrics and melodies over time, as they slowly worm into your consciousness and pull at your conscience. His ninth studio album but the first in five years, Moonlight doesn’t sound a whole lot different from his past works, at least to my ears. The doubleheader - featuring opening sets by his Hawaiian friends Ron Artis II and Thunderstorm Artis - comes on the heels of his latest album, Meet the Moonlight, which was produced by Blake Mills and came out in June. But Jack’s back, preparing to play two nights at the Santa Barbara Bowl next week, October 4 and 5, his first time on our largest stage since 2018. Like so many friends, it’s been a while since we’ve all connected, thanks to COVID. If you’re a UCSB grad of a certain era, he may even be your friend, or a friend of a friend, or at least an up-close anecdote that you use to impress otherwise never-been-that-close fans of his mellow, campfire-perfect music. He studied film at UCSB, played Del Playa keggers in Isla Vista, and owns a home near the Montecito shoreline, where he lived when the town was more sleepy than chichi. | Credit: Morgan Maassen Read all of the stories in our “Fall’s Cultural Harvest” cover here.Įven if he spends most of his time in Hawai‘i these days, Santa Barbara still considers Jack Johnson our own surfing-songwriting son. Hometown favorite Jack Johnson brings the fun to town October 4-5.