Devine State Of Apathy is a collection of original and traditional works that finds a fitting home in the categories of both blues and folk.

Singer/songwriter Steve Johnson was born in St. Louis county in Duluth, MN. He came early, arrived dead, and the Doctors all said would have stayed that way were it not for the miracle-workings of modern medicine. Raised in the defeated little port-town of Superior, WI--a place uniquely devoid of opportunity, hope, and predictable weather. A city able to fit it's entire population into the legal carrying capacity of its taverns, bars, and alcohol-slanging establishments.

Superior has a feeling to it--a flashing cloud, a malaise that rolls in off the lake with the fog. And you can hear it like a warning, a siren wailing with the gales, thrashing against the houses just before the sunrise. This is the place Steve Johnson's music is born--beneath the taconite skies of the wintry northland; in the crumbling ruins of defeat. In a place where the people have nothing to be proud of, but are anyways. This is home, and the blues finds a natural fit here in Superior, WI.

Steve's song writing is honest and keen, but not melodramatic. He is sincere and, in his writing, he is thoroughly devoted to the capture of meaning and substance. In this, his debut album, Steve does not fall short of that goal. The original works on Devine State Of Apathy were written between the ages of sixteen and eighteen. The songs were written with the clarity of one much older, but are balanced by a naive innocence that reveals Steve's "youngness." Poignant and profound at times, angst-ridden and victimized at others, this album is engaging, provoking, and one that will stay on repeat for months after you've listened to it.