Sometimes I sit and think about how many of my stupid little ideas could fit on the head of a pin. How many of my useless efforts could fit into a cigarette? Is it luck? I think so.

“The man who said ‘I’d rather be lucky than good’ saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It’s scary to think so much is out of one’s control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net, and for a split second, it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck, it goes forward, and you win. Or maybe it doesn’t, and you lose.” Woody Allen

So as I move on as an artist I would rather be lucky than good and hope that for once in my career that the ball falls forward.

“Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don’t quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don’t quit until you reach it. Never quit.” Bear Bryant

“I know how to get there, all I’ve got to do is keep playing.” Jimmy Page

So with the above quotes in mind, which I agree with deeply, I’ll continue to release music prolifically this year.

These releases will include:

- ‘The Indiana Session’ The third installment of my Jazz series.

- ’40-0′ A full-length electronic collaboration with DJ Busy B.

- ‘Dark Heart’ A full-length roots album.

These projects are what get me out of bed, live with passion, and anyone or anything that gets in the way will be destroyed.

Today marks the release of the music video for ‘World on fire’. The video was produced and directed by Edward Koehler in London, England.

‘WOF’ was filmed in a singled take using a Hitachi 1″ video tube camera from 1971 and accompanied by vintage newsreel and archive footage.

‘World on fire’ charted well at Triple-A radio in the US staying in the Top 200 for nearly eight weeks and has been a critical success no doubt.

Same news, different day.

“If you don’t know who Johnny Bennett is you shouldn’t be too hard on yourself; yes he’s made a couple of fantastically super cool albums, which I have reviewed for Uber Rock in previous years, but the mainstream just doesn’t seem interested in covering him – it’s entirely their loss, and yours actually, you really should search out those records.

So, being a workaholic with an appetite for making music comparable in size to the Yellow Stone National Park, last year Johnny decided to work on a number of collaborations and this here album is the resulting work from a link up with his pal Gabe Ford, who is perhaps best known as the drummer with Little Feat for the last four years or so.

It’s about as straight down the line, organic-homely-rock as you could get, and it’s just brimming with Johnny’s suit an’ tie-mother-fucker-cool-guy-attitude, which is mirrored by Ford’s vocal input to opener ‘Ramble’ and the early ’90s grunge riff that it skates along on. Bennett takes the microphone for ‘My Sweetest Baby’, which is a song of the quality I for one have come to expect from this wonderful wandering minstrel, before ‘Carnival’ weaves a mood of enigmatic darkness as the pair known as The Gutter Report share vocal duties.

‘Come and Go’ again showcases Bennett’s absolute knack for penning, and performing, pop-rock perfection. ‘Midtown’ is a mid-tempo-mood setter that slows the pace before the wonderfully titled ‘No One Cares If Sam’s Your Uncle’ rocks everything back into place.

Tucked away towards the back of this great album is maybe the highlight, ‘All You Got to Do Is Believe’, which sits comfortably alongside anything from Johnny’s back catalogue in terms of depth and quality, which is maybe the perfect way to sum up the man himself as well as this album, depth and quality.

The Gutter Report is music made as it should always be made, by friends, friends who do what they like with a total disregard for fashion, but with every regard for integrity and belief. Johnny Bennett should be a name everyone knows, one of these days he may well be, and this album will certainly do no harm at all in his attempt to conquer the world.” Jamie Richards – Uber Rock

Buy the self titled album by The Gutter Report here:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-gutter-report/id564251094