Johnny Guitar
Johnny Guitar Biography

Johnny Guitar was born Johnny Lynn White on April 9th 1959 in Midland, Texas. His father was a bricklayer and his mother a housewife raising Johnny and his five siblings. When Johnny was a year old, the family moved to East Texas settling in a small community known as Cowhill. Early on in life, Johnny was blessed with three important gifts. First off, he was always the smartest kid in the neighborhood. Second, he learned early on the art of “winning friends and influencing people”. Third, he was a young man born with vision. His musical training began early as well. He learned to sing his first song at the age of six; learned to play the guitar at eight; performed on stage the first time at eleven and published his first song when he was fourteen. He got his nickname Johnny Guitar from Joe Adams; the man who taught Johnny how to play the guitar. Johnny graduated from High School in Cooper, Texas in May 1977. After High School, he put down his guitar and went off to see the world compliments of Uncle Sam and the United States Air Force. He circled the globe twice during his time in the service serving tours in both South East Asia and the South Med. After 10 years, he’d seen enough and was honorably discharged in October 1988.
After his discharge, Johnny Guitar returned home to Texas to pursue his life long dream of becoming a rock star. He got his first job in music playing Bass in his older brother’s band. Later on, he formed his first band, The Bad Street Band. The band started out playing local clubs and VFW Halls up and down the Red River Valley. But there was trouble in paradise. First off, Johnny wanted to do his own thing while the band wanted to play covers. Second, he was not making any money. So in the Summer of 1996, he moved to Dallas, Texas to try his luck in the big city. Unfortunately, Dallas was a disaster. There were just too many bands and not enough gigs. But his time in Dallas wasn’t a total waste. While living in Dallas Johnny Guitar had a career altering epiphany. During this epiphany, he learned that songwriting, not Rock Star, was to be his true destiny in life. He got his start as a songwriter in Deep Ellum in Dallas at the Sons of Hermann Hall. His songs were well received and he was invited back the next week. Over the course of that summer, he played the hall over a dozen times. In fact, he was so successful, that people started talking about Nashville. A couple of months later, Johnny Guitar left Dallas hitchhiking to Nashville.
Unfortunately, Nashville was not impressed and told Johnny Guitar to go back to driving a truck. But Johnny was persistent and begged the question: how do you make it in Nashville? They said simple: go home and write something different; write something unique; write something that’s never been done before. In other words, go home and write the perfect song. So Johnny Guitar went back home to Texas and started trying to write some new songs.
Songs that were different; songs that were unique; songs that didn’t sound like anyone else. Over the years, Johnny Guitar did everything he could think of trying to write the perfect song. He scored the entire American music spectrum trying to write the perfect song. He wrote over 300 songs trying to write the perfect song. Johnny Guitar never did write the perfect song; but, he did do something just as good. He wrote every kind of song in America. Specifically, he wrote Alternative songs; he wrote Ballads; he wrote Bluegrass, Blues, Comedy, Country, Folk, Gospel, Heavy Metal, Holiday Songs, Jazz Songs, Love Songs, Political Songs, Pop, Rap, Recitations, R&B, Rock, Soul and Western Swing. Nobody in the history of American music has ever done this before. And that makes Johnny Guitar different; that makes Johnny Guitar unique and that gives Johnny Guitar a sound unlike no other. You can read all about it and listen to all his music on his website. Go online and log onto lonestarjohnnyguitar.com
Johnny Guitar’s quest to write the perfect song also produced several other unexpected results. Trying to write the perfect song also led Johnny Guitar to write over 300 songs. Trying to write the perfect song also led Johnny Guitar to record over 700 songs. Trying to write the perfect song also led Johnny Guitar to learn the History of American Music. Johnny Guitar continues to live on Bad Street in Commerce where he continues to write at The Conservatory in Commerce. When he’s not writing music, he also enjoys writing stand up, radio shows, screen plays and music videos.