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Johnny Timewarp

Johnny Timewarp joined WHUS 91.7 FM in February 2008 and has been broadcasting on the Connecticut airwaves since 1992 including stints at WMXC Radio (MIddlesex Community College), WESU 88.1 FM (Wesleyan University), and an eleven year run at WFCS 107.7 FM (Central Connecticut State University). During the span of his "career" he has hosted over twenty different radio programs. He is a distant relative of Revolutionary War hero Major General Phillip John Schuyler. He is also related to Declaration of Independence signer Phillip Livingston, U. S. Constitution signers Alexander Hamilton and William Livingston, Continental Army Surgeon General John Cochran, War of 1812 General Stephen Van Rensselaer, Civil War Union Generals Schuyler Hamilton, Henry Van Rensselaer, John Cochrane, Henry Wager Halleck, George Washington Cullum and John Jacob Astor III, Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Presidents George Bush and George W. Bush, Vice President Schuyler Colfax, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, millionaire and doomed Titanic passenger John Jacob Astor IV, legendary Hollywood actors Kirk Douglas and Michael Douglas, "Father Knows Best" actress Jane Wyatt, "High Noon" cinematographer Floyd Crosby, and musician David Crosby. Johnny lives in Higganum with his wife and two greyhounds and works as a union pipefitter and plumber.

With a fusion of musical inspiration that ranges from country swing to death metal to the heart and organs of dark folk and old bluegrass, a listen to "Dark Side of the Highway" evokes the dreamscape of leading a steel breeze into an Old West gunfight, knowing you're probably going to die but flirting with the ruse of hope without redemption's promise; maybe even the idea that an eternal Hell of heartfelt music might warrant the compromise of not sitting on a cloud forever playing trite pop songs on a three string lyre. Feel the burn of whiskey, the glow of mortality at the tip of each cigarette as life's soundless winds abandon the heart and tease the mind insane. Spend the early hours with a spurned companion, the memory of falling apart. Dissipate the burden. Realize that the temptations surrendered to will inevitably grant freedom to every wretched soul.

The journey begins each week with a tip of the hat to those musicians (or related people, regardless of musical genre) who kicked the bucket during the previous week... a regular feature called "The Dead Celebrity Roundup".

COMING UP IN THE NEXT DEAD CELEBRITY ROUNDUP (MAY 26):

>>>Alan O'Day (1940-2013). 1970's singer and songwriter, best known for writing The Righteous Brothers' 1974 hit "Rock and Roll Heaven" and his own 1977 smash "Undercover Angel".

>>>Ray Manzarek (1939-2013). Legendary keyboardist and founding member of THe Doors.

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