''Seven Worlds'' is a 1998 solo album by

Eric Johnson Eric Johnson may refer to: Music *Eric Johnson (guitarist) (born 1954) an American guitarist and recording artist * Eric D. Johnson (born 1976), member of multiple indie-rock bands including Fruit Bats, The Shins and Califone Politics * Eric Joh ...

. It contains songs recorded between 1976 and 1978 – after disbanding with his previous band The Electromagnets – that were intended to be Johnson's first solo album. Due to various disputes, general release was held up until Johnson gave permission to Ark 21 to finally release the master recordings, more than twenty years after the album was recorded. The rights to the ''Seven Worlds'' recordings are owned by a previous manager. Johnson subsequently re-recorded the tracks "Zap" and "Emerald Eyes" for his first general release album, 1986's '' Tones''.

Track listing

All songs written by

, except where noted. #"Zap" – 3:22 #"Emerald Eyes" (Johnson, Jay Aaron Podolnick) – 3:18 #"Showdown" (Johnson, Jay Aaron Podolnick) – 3:59 #"Missing Key" – 3:43 #"Alone with You" – 6:13 #"I Promise I Will Try" – 2:41 #"Winter Came" – 4:56 #"Turn the Page" – 3:49 #"A Song for Life" – 2:29 #"By Your Side" – 3:37

Personnel

–

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

, lead vocals, Fender Rhodes electric piano,

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

, lap steel guitar * Jay Aaron – vocals * Christopher Cross – vocals * Liza Farrow – vocals * Kim Wilson – harmonica * Nick Phelps –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

* Jimmy Martin – guitar * Steve Barber – synthesizers *

Roscoe Beck Charles Roscoe Beck is an American bassist with a reputation as "a solid bottom-liner". Beck has played with artists like Robben Ford, Eric Johnson, Leonard Cohen, and The Dixie Chicks. He is also a successful record producer with two Grammy ...

– bass guitar * Kyle Brock –

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

* David Dennard – bass * Bill Maddox – drums * Mark Singer – drums * Linda Wetherby –

viola da gamba The viol (), viola da gamba (), or informally gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted, and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on the strings can be increased or decreased to adjust the pitch ...

References

{{Authority control Eric Johnson albums Ark 21 Records albums 1998 albums