JOHNNY COLEY - Where the Smoke Goes LP Modern Classical I had the concept from

I had the concept from the start

and "Downtown Dedication" twists hazy '70s psychedelia into modern poses

only to abruptly end at its highest speed…the days flying by like minutes

as in ‘Mirror Arp’

) and the evergreen Steve McCall on drums

JOHNNY COLEY - Where the Smoke Goes LP Modern Classical I had the concept fromLobby Art is honored to present the final two LPs from the late Birmingham, AL based queer poet and artist Johnny Coley, who passed away in 2025 at the age of 76. Tender, lucid, and slippery poems unspool in Johnnys signature drawl, charting oblique journeys through the sidereal and mundane. He composes painterly landscapes of his beloved Alabama and imagines waking up in the crowded streets of London. This is Southern Surreal story telling where each