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Johnny Edwards performing with Foreigner in It was a humid summer evening — July, , to be as precise as possible — and I recall that we sat outside for our interview. Johnny, of course, had a stint touring and recording as the lead singer for Foreigner. My story, written for Louisville News, was about him surviving the music business and getting back to his roots.

Note: In the years since, I have been contacted numerous times by people hoping I still had Johnny's contact info.

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Sitting one sunny evening at Twice Told Coffeehouse in the Highlands, his home territory, Edwards' eyes sparkled as he talked of one of the thousands of gigs he's played in a music career that began more than three decades ago. But this wasn't the croaking of a wanna-be rocker or a crusty has-been who longs to be 25 again.

Instead, it was more of a thoughtful recollection of how he came to be where he is at this moment in time, like a collection of photographs displayed chronologically in an album that tells a distinctive story that isn't finished yet. Edwards, you might remember, made his mark in Louisville back in the early s with a band called Buster Brown.

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But he went a lot farther than that, and only a couple years ago came back home to settle where he always felt most at home in the first place. How did a Louisville boy who'd been in a regional band called Buster Brown get onto the radar of an established national act like Foreigner? You might not know that he spent some time with a hair metal band called King Kobra that scored a few hits in the late s and that for a couple of years he was the front man for Foreigner, the arena-rock band that seemed bigger than life for many of us in middle school and high school.

Pretty big stuff, especially for a Kentucky boy. And yet here he was, sitting in a tiny coffeehouse in Louisville, wearing a T-shirt and gym shorts, a backpack close by his side. This is a guy whose trade, these days, is in telecommunications. He's got a wife, kids, a house.