Fruit Bats return!

The Working Songwriter by Joe Pug LLC

Aug 21, 202650:00Music

Our guest this week is one of Chicago’s favorite sons. Eric D. Johnson is the songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist behind Fruit Bats, which started in the late 1990s as a four-track recording project before growi...

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