Johnny Azari is a NY-based songwriter and performer who has opened for acts like Kiss, The New York Dolls, and Nouvelle Vague. He has written over 300 Rock, Blues, and Country songs, including "Freedom Glory Be Our Name," which became the anthem of Iran's Green Movement, and his "Occupation Blues" was listed as the #2 song of the Occupy Wall Street movement by The New York Observer. Johnny also scored the feature film "Windows," which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and he's worked with Grammy Award-winning producer David Kahn.
A brothel brawling deep south rock blues slammer perfect for femme fatale scene. Tom Waits styled vocals, wailing harmonica, bleeding B3 organ, and furious electric guitar solo at 2:39. Maniac pocket drums, wild slap upright bass lines. This song is an ode to a dangerous woman. louisiana New Orleans, Male Vocals, Rock, Blues Rock
an ode to the artist who drives himself too far, buries himself in his own work, also for a character who blindly gets herself lost in a world she does not understand. great for scenes of a character overwhelmed by a world he cannot control but thinks he can. stubborn adherence to a failed idea, Male Vocals, Blues, Country Blues
sexy philosophical country-western ballad based on Dante's Inferno. husky male vocal, operatic female soprano, beautiful melancholy harmonica solo at 1:57, banjo, upright bass, accordion, acoustic guitar drums. sordid love affair, burlesque, western saloon/bar, lonely drinking, slow death, villain, Male Vocals, Country, Alt Country
bouncy beat-driven meditation on life and madness. classic pop drums propel a male-female duet that pauses for an operatic female vocal solo. the soundtrack to a willful mindlessness, dancing on the ruins of your life, smiling hopelessness, Male Vocals, Rock, Blues Rock
high noon harmonica, galloping drums, Hammond B3 organ set up bar brawls, foot chases, and pulpy western montages. raspy male lead vocal, soaring female soprano & slapped upright bass fuel drunken action scenes. Bob Dylan style poetry lends a high minded physicality to this furiously paced sequence, Male Vocals, Country, Alt Country
Sweaty grimy ode to a dangerous love that bites back. swinging country blues rock. Smoky, yearning vocals, crunchy western guitar, and a bump and grind bassline. perfect for a saloon, a brothel, or a doomed affair. pained, mutually destructive lovers. a femme fatale anthem. Male Vocals, Rock, Blues Rock
A classic drinking song with a modern twist. Country-western meets big city degenerate, Tom Waits style. Great for party scene, self destructive sequences, rowdy bar or lonesome drunk. Gypsy accordion opens, bellowing harmonica at 0:42, filthy slide guitar at 1:18, twangy electric guitar at 2:06. Male Vocals, Country, Alt Country
philosophical, steel guitar driven dissection of abandonment by religion, examines metaphysical and classical metaphor, foot stomping percussion, classic blues country yodel, style of tom waits bob dylan, perfect for existential crises, wandering through landscapes, thoughtful scenes, Male Vocals, Blues, Country Blues
bob dylan leonard cohen esq song of revolution and philosophical salvation set to a fast paced waltz. Acoustic guitar and low husky male vocals sing of war, death, liberation, execution, wealth and poverty. great for underdog story or documentary about civil unrest, Male Vocals, Folk, Political Folk
A new take on classic blues form, Muddy Waters meets Tom Waits. Heart break vocals against pounding drums, half time swung guitar solo @ 1:44, wailing harmonica solo @ 2:14, bleeding B3 organ solo @ 3:18 Quentin Tarantino murder scene, angry broken heart, fast and hard drivin, post breakup scene, Male Vocals, Rock, Blues Rock
love song, blues country ballad, bonnie and clyde romance, devotion to a femme fatale, perfect for tragic or doomed romance, love between an artist and his muse, lovers holding hands as the world burns around them, love as seen in natural born killers, romeo and juliette, fight club, Male Vocals, Blues, Country Blues
Bluesy slide steel guitar and melancholic male vocals set a tone of hopeless wandering with a seen-it-all attitude, theme for a jaded protagonist, driving through rainy fields, contemplating a night sky, bleeding out on the pavement after a bar brawl, with dylan-esque politics, Male Vocals, Blues, Country BluesCaution: Mature Lyrics
driving steel guitar and rhythmic vocals lament and glorify the life of a wandering or lost poet. theme for a character who rejects wealth and a system that tries to convince him to measure his worth in dollars. great for wide, searching, contemplative landcape pans, Male Vocals, Blues, Country Blues
foot-stomping ode to a sexy femme fatale, good for scenes of violent lust, wild woman, lovers' fighting and throwing dishes, also the murder of such a woman by her abused lover, pulpy, campy, steamy affair when the sex is too good for breaking up. the consequences of mistaking lust for love, Male Vocals, Blues, Country BluesCaution: Mature Lyrics
steel guitar and smokey vocals tell the story of a man literally facing the saints and the devil and choosing death. good for a character in a moral or existential crisis, suicide, desperately reaching for but never grasping happiness, slowly losing his mind or purpose, resignation, Male Vocals, Blues, Country Blues
A modern day Bonnie and Clyde story w/ eclectic assortment of instruments: setar (persian) daf (persian) violin, harmonica, accordion, upright bass, cajon, guitar, male vox. Guitar and setar open the song battling mixing blues & middle eastern styles into a building and climatic journey through USA, Male Vocals, Rock, Acoustic RockCaution: Mature Lyrics
Deltablues meets altcountry in this ode to being broke, sad, heartbroken, lonely, and lost. Sweet and soft slide guitar with husky low male vocals & foot tapping. slow slideguitar solo at 2:11. fast slide guitar solo at 3:06. Great for crying in beer scene, or ironic moment of making piece with li, Male Vocals, Blues, Delta Blues