Chuck Johnson is a composer and musician currently residing in Oakland, CA. He began playing fingerstyle acoustic guitar in the early 1990’s, inspired by the North Carolina Piedmont blues of Elizabeth Cotten, Rev. Gary Davis, and Etta Baker, as well as the “American Primitive” approach to steel string guitar as a solo concert instrument and vehicle for personal expression. These influences can be heard in his solo guitar music as well as his contributions to the Idyll Swords (Communions/Threelobed) and Shark Quest (Merge Records), and in his music for film. His first solo guitar album in over a decade, A Struggle Not a Thought, is to be released in November 2011 on Strange Attractors Audio House.