JOHNNY COLEY - Where the Smoke Goes LP Modern Classical only to abruptly end at

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

vocal pop created by the hard consonant that overwhelms the microphone and causes it to distort

ichi Sakamoto

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

I had the concept from the start

JOHNNY COLEY - Where the Smoke Goes LP Modern Classical only to abruptly end atLobby 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