John Johnson (46)

Country and Cajun multi-instrumentalist (fiddle, mandolin, accordion, guitar, harmonica, bass), originally from Louisiana, now based in Houston, Texas. He is a two-time Louisiana fiddling champion (1985 and 1995), and has played in the band of country artist Lee Ann Womack, and with Rascal Flatts and Wayne Toups & Zydecajun. In Louisiana, he led his own band, "Fiddlin' John Johnson & Bayeux Band", from the mid-1980s until the mid-1990s when he relocated to South Carolina. The band also included his father, C.J. Johnson, on guitar, as well as fiddler/guitarist Greg Edwards.