We’re excited to announce that John Egan will be playing a music set at the upcoming CreativeMornings Houston event at HMNS! Be sure to snag your ticket tomorrow when registration opens here at 11AM.

About John Egan:
At 12, Egan got his first guitar and taught himself to play. “I ended up tuning it weird before I really knew what I was doing,” he says. He graduated from the University of St. Thomas where he spent a few years studying music, but ultimately he found his way back to the unorthodox style of playing he had when he was younger. “I gravitated toward what my ear heard, and that was more drone-y and weird.”

Egan has made three records that don’t lend themselves to easy categorization. He fits somewhere on an power blues arc that includes Jimi Hendrix and Chris Whitley, artists who put a powder keg under the venerable genre. Egan shares with Whitley a sometimes-studied, sometimes-stormy way with the resonator. He cops to taking in a lot of Prince as a young listener, which explains the funkier moments on his first album, The Gin Diaries. Houston’s rich singer-songwriter history seems to have also found its way into his mix. As he puts it, “it’s kind of a hybridized thing. It was originally songwriter based, but it evolved into something louder.” He’s also well acquainted with old Southern soul — evident in his singing — from his mother’s music collection. He says an early record by soul-singer-turned-disco-smoothie Johnnie Taylor made an early impression.

Egan’s latest project is “Amulet” and will be available July 1, 2014.
Booking inquiries: gindiaries@icloud.comreverbnation.com/johnegan