JOHNNY COLEY - Where the Smoke Goes LP Modern Classical ” is a profound meditation

” is a profound meditation on entropy and impermanence

I had the concept from the start

as in ‘Mirror Arp’

Staying true to an original concept yet constantly pushing it in new directions is no easy task but IFCO can claim the mantle and show no signs of tiring

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

JOHNNY COLEY - Where the Smoke Goes LP Modern Classical ” is a profound meditationLobby 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