Hi all,

After many weeks of recording and many months of promotion I am happy to say that Colorway’s second album, The Black Sky Sequined, is finally available worldwide! 

Whether it’s the download, the CD or the deluxe 180 gram vinyl that you choose I can assure you that if you like great pop and rock music you will absolutely love this record. 

You can make it yours a number of ways:

If you would like to purchase a download you can get that at Bandcamp (where you can stream the album as well).

For an actual CD or LP delivered to you then head to the Colorway Shop (where we’re having a sale on tee shirts and tank tops just in time for summer).

You can pick it up in person at several locations in the Pioneer Valley.

They are:

Turn it Up
5 Pleasant St
Northampton, MA

Platterpus Records
28 Cottage St
Easthampton, MA

Cup and Top Cafe (CD only)
1 North Maple St
Florence, MA

Wild Mutation Records
52 Main St Suite 6
Florence, MA

Mystery Train Records
178A North Pleasant St
Amherst, MA

And, of course, you can pick up the album at any of our shows . . . like this Thursday, 5/7 at the Narrows Center For The Arts where we play at 8pm in my old hometown of Fall River, MA.

Or our Album Release Show at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton on Thursday, May 14 at 7pm with special guests, Goldwater the Second. 

So there you have it, gang. It’s been a long road to get to this place we’re at. I hope the music serves you well. I wrote it in the summertime and I really think that shows.

Crank it up in your car with the windows down and let the wind rush through and take you places that make you happy.

That’s all I could ever hope for. 

And on we go . . . 

~FAJ

Here’s a great piece (our first bit of press) written by Gary Carra that ran in the Valley Advocate on 4/23/2013.

Nightcrawler: Color His World
F. Alex Johnson begins a new chapter in his sonic storybook with Colorway
By Gary Carra
April 23, 2013

Life. Love. Loss.

Each one is responsible for prompting countless musicians to put pen to paper since time immemorial. Stir the three together as Valley veteran F. Alex Johnson has done with his latest project, Colorway, however, and that’s one potent sonic cocktail indeed.

“I’ve been put through the proverbial mortal wringer over the last five years,” he confesses, “from losing my close family to cancer, parting ways with the Drunk Stuntmen, my band of 15 years… getting clean and sober, traveling the world with the Young@Heart Chorus.”

Joining Johnson on this highly personal audio odyssey are bassist David Hayes (best known for his popular Facebook page “The Weather Nut”), and Drunk Stuntmen on-again, off-again journeyman drummer J.J. O’Connell.

The fledgling trio is currently holed up at Sonelab Studios with esteemed engineer Mark Alan Miller recording tunes for the debut album they hope to release by late May.

A June 29 CD release party proper at the Iron Horse (iheg.com) is also already set in ink.

“The songs are strong and the two guys I chose to share the stage and studio with will bring these stories to life in a new way,” Johnson revealed. “I’m breaking out the ‘61 Strat for a few, acoustic on the others, and I’m finding there really is no alley to hide in when you are in a trio. There’s no other feeling like it, even playing solo, which I’ve done. You’re out there with your guitar and two other guys have your back.”

http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=16669

Saturday, June 29 @ 10pm:

Colorway’s debut live performance at The Iron Horse Music Hall, Center St. Northampton, MA.

Dave Houghton opens (Fancy Trash) in a rare solo appearance.

Tickets: Advance $10 / Door $13

Buy tickets online at NBO
or buy direct from Colorway ($10/no processing fee/free shipping): info@colorwaymusic.com

For more info call the box office at 413-586-8686 or write to us.