Johnny Colt doesn’t waste time. Colt ranks as a top-shelf bassist, businessman, photographer and graphic artist. He’s best known as the original Black Crowes bassist. Colt played in the Crowes from 1989-1997. Later, Colt played in the groups Asphalt Blaster, Brand New Immortals, Train, and Rock Star Supernova. Colt served as bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd from 2012-2017. Colt spent years teaching yoga, running various businesses and traveled to earthquake-ravaged Japan to report for CNN in 2011.
In 2021, Colt published Postcards from the (Ed)ge: The Black & White Crowes as a tribute to his old Black Crowes bandmate, keyboardist Eddie Harsch. Harsch died in 2016. Colt decided to pay his old bandmate respect through his photography during their time in the Black Crowes. It’s a collector’s item. Only a few hundred copies exist.
Postcards from the (Ed)ge contain over twenty never seen photos of the great keyboardist Eddie Harsch. “Old Ed” Harsch played with James Cotton and Albert Collins before The Rolling Stones’ keyboardist Chuck Leavell suggested Harsch join The Black Crowes. Colt allowed Crowes fans to submit their memories of Harsch included in this soulful collection. In my package, “19 of 100”, contains the signed book and three separate pieces of work by the artist.
Out on the road, Colt used the Crowes tour bus latrine as his darkroom to develop these vintage images.
(Photo of Eddie Harsch by Johnny Colt)