Rising Sun Presents:

Eric Johnson - Texaphonic Tour 2025 at The Colonial Theatre 

Wednesday, October 1, 2025 

Doors at 6:30 PM | Show at 7:30 PM

All Ages

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About Eric Johnson

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One of the most outstanding instrumentalists in rock over the past 40 years, Texas guitarist Eric Johnson was  already a legend before he recorded his first album. By the early 1980s, many celebrated guitarists were singing  the praises of this skinny kid from Austin with the mind-melting chops. Comparisons were made to such guitar  heroes as Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix and when he joined the ‘70s Austin fusion band Electromagnets they were  being hailed as “the Mahavishnu Orchestra of Texas”. With the release of his highly-anticipated 1986 solo debut  album Tones, the underground guitar legend finally emerged onto the scene fully-formed. It landed him on the  cover of Guitar Player magazine, which hailed the album as a “majestic debut”, and earned him his first Grammy  nomination for the song “Zap”. With the release of his follow up album, 1990’s platinum-selling Ah Via Musicom,  which contained the Grammy Award winning song “Cliffs of Dover”, Eric Johnson became a bona fide international  guitar phenomenon.

The New Age Music Guide once opined that “Eric Johnson plays guitar the way Michelangelo painted ceilings:  with a colorful vibrancy that’s more real than life” while Rolling Stone included him in their list of the 100 Greatest  Guitarists of the 21st century. A dynamic singer as well as an incredibly gifted guitarist, a pianist and a prolific  songwriter, Eric has been featured on the cover of countless guitar magazines around the world while also racking  up critical accolades along the way.

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