Jack County Line presents “Songwriter Sundays”: A Residency

MUSIC | SUNDAY, APRIL 12 | 2:30 PM | PAY WHAT YOU WISH Jack County Line presents “Songwriter Sundays”: A Residency Join us for monthly performances of the original songs of New Mexico based Jack County Line. Michael Allison, JD Johnston, and Norm Toy explore love, joy, and heartbreak set against the horizons of the American southwest. This new series launches on Sunday, April 12, at 2:30 PM. Jack County Line, formed in 2023, is a collaboration among singer-songwriters Michael Allison and JD Johnston and multi-instrumentalist, studio engineer, and producer Norm Toy. The group focuses on original songs that blend Americana, progressive country and contemporary folk and rock. From the joyful “Arc of a Rainbow” to the desolate and thought-provoking “Bosque Redondo,” as well as many others, JCL explores beauty, heartbreak, and the emotional landscapes of the American southwest. While Allison, Johnston and Toy come from very different personal and creative backgrounds, each believes in the sharing of common human experience through the poetry of song. We portray the world as we have seen and felt it, the joyful and the sad, the good and the bad.  JCL has two releases to date, “Jack County Lines” and “100 Miles from Somewhere,” both of which are available on all major streaming platforms and as downloads from their website. The group continues to write, play, and record and will perform monthly live versions of many of their songs starting on April 12, 2026, at FUSION. Tickets are available on a Pay What You Wish basis. Learn more about JD Johnston and Jack County Line in "An American Singer-Songwriter" by FUSION staff writer, Rudolfo Carrillo. Please join us! FUTURE DATES: April 12 | May 10 | June 21 | July 12 | August 9 | September 27 Free parking is available in FUSION’s lot. TICKETS READ ARTICLE Quality bar service will be provided by Safe House Distilling Co. and Teller Genuine Vodka.     WEBSITE INSTAGRAM Spotify APPLE MEET THE SONGWRITERS Michael Allison, born in Texas but living and working as a lawyer in New Mexico since 1981, has been devoted to the art of the singer-songwriter since attending college in Austin, Texas during the seventies. A middling guitarist for most of his life, he began writing his own songs in 2020, and formed “Jack County Line” with JD Johnston in 2023. JD Johnston, aka “John Dennis Johnston”, originally from small town Nebraska, has had a long and successful career as an actor, having appeared in numerous national movies and television shows, and has also been active in theater. JD has been a writer and, over the years, has penned plays, screenplays and poetry. After being declared legally blind in 2005, JD became fascinated with the lives and the art of singer-songwriters and began a theater project about a musician battling to recover his music and his life, “The Rehearsal”, which was performed in 2022. He wrote or co-wrote ten songs for the play, and in the process fell in love with songw...