Career
Swedish-born acoustic musician, composer, producer and pedagogue. Residing in Cary, North Carolina, and active in the United States since 1986. His original music draws from several genres including traditional and contemporary Swedish, Bluegrass, Classical and Blues.
His formal education is the field of the Humanities and he received a Candidate
Philosophy. degree in General Linguistics and Scandinavian Languages from Umeå University, in Umeå, Sweden. He has done doctoral candidate studies at Stockholm"s University and University of California at Los Los Angeles
Living in Northern Sweden made it difficult to find bluegrass records and the main source for recorded music was mail order companies like County Sales in Virginia. Johansson recalls "The first album I ever bought was one by blues-man Bill Williams on the Blue Goose label.
My second LP was Alabama Blues on Yazoo Records.
I found both albums at the department store Tempo in Skellefteå." January Johansson is the host of the online radio show "The Old Numbers", a presentation of great artists in the bluegrass field who never received the attention they deserved.
