Welcome to John Spreier's web site. This web site showcases the music of John and his solo albums: Okinawa, New Jersey, The East Side, TallMan on Campus, and Twenty Two Years. It features performances by Charlie Capella, David Chandler, Dave Crigger, John Guadagni, Jon Jelleyman, Pete Kogler, Dave Lieber, Ken Mele, Marty Mele, Tony Miceli, Caila Byrd, and John Spreier. It also features pictures and video performances of John.

Click on the links above and to the right to see and listen to the albums, check out the gigs, learn the news, look at the pictures, read the lyrics, hear the songs, and view the videos.

John is a musician, songwriter, and vocalist. His main instruments are bass and guitar but he's been known to pick up a mandolin, trumpet, or drum & bang some keys on a piano or synthesizer to record the parts that are needed for a song that he's written. He began performing in the spring of 1976 and started recording in the autumn of 1979. To date he has released five solo albums and twenty-two albums with his bands.

John has been a member of the following bands, duets & trios: Minas Tirith, Rael, The Tim Turner Band, Allagash, The Units, Wilson Blue and the Blue Roots Reggae Band, Mirage, Beta Brunette, Red Road, Newbird, Zen Chefs, Seek First, Fable, Essential Harmony, Casinelli & Company, Barnstormers, and The BLC Band. He has also been a guest performer with Full Circle, Maasai, Man on the Street, and Dub Squad.

John has performed and/or recorded with Dave Lieber, Ken & Marty Mele, Tony Miceli, Wico Van Genderen, Lydia Jackson, Tim Waller, Brad Egner, Bob Hollinger, Kenny & Michael Birnbaum, Charlie Capella, Pete Kogler, Tim Turner, Jimmy Mulligan, John Guadagni, Jon & Justin Jelleyman, Jimmy Devine, Wilson Blue, Dave Turano, Brian Dougan, David Chandler, Arna Zucker, Phil Mullen, Lloyd Nibbs, Nick & Steve Smith, Steve Copel, Kenny Johnson, Fred Wilkes, Billy Smith, Georgia Kaly, Willie Wilmont, Tom Parotti, Willie Coolie, Abdul Mateen, Tony Blackett, Frank O'Rourke, Chris Turner, Len Boudreau, John Crafton Jr, John Crafton III, Anthony Gavoli, Joshua Willis, Donna & Jeff Olson, Vincent Pasternak, John Dunn, Rick Bellaire, Marilynn Manfra, J.P. Jones, Kurt Meyer, Caila Spreier, Michele Jeffrey, Joe Casinelli, Steve Hodge, Chuck Smith, Kristen Chapentier, Denice Petrucci, Seth Ramsdill, James & Sam Marriot, Danielle Schaeffer, Judie Knudtson, Jacob Clawson, Ken & Lori Imel, Katie & Matt Imel, Steve Chapman, Alex Heilig, Betsy & David Elwert, Kathleen Olive, Bryan Wilkes, Aimee Pakan, and many other great musicians. He's also performed with The Bethlehem Lutheran Church Choir and The Grace Lutheran Church Choir.

John was an audio engineer with John Guadagni for Maasai's live performances in the eighties. He was the audio engineer for The Jon Jelleyman Memorial Benefit Concert at One Pelham East in Newport, R.I. He was the audio engineer and producer for Arna Zucker's i love to sing-a EP. He was the audio engineer for John Belcher's "Half of My Time" which appears on John Belcher's album "The Sound According to John". He was an audio engineer for St Andrews Lutheran Church & Bethlehem Lutheran Church. He was the audio engineer for all of his bands albums with the exception of the Allagash albums which were engineered by Jon Jelleyman. He was the audio engineer and producer for all of his solo albums.

Click here to read John's musical resume encoded as a PDF (Portable Document Format) file.

Click the play button above to hear the songs streaming in the player.

Unlike other web sites, Barnyard Sounds always provides the entire song (not just clips) encoded in Windows Media Audio format (WMA) for your listening pleasure. Some songs are also available as MP3 files on the home page (see above). In addition to the music we also provide the lyrics and the graphics for the CD. Barnyard Sounds believes that the internet is the radio of the 21st Century and that listening to music on the web should be free. If you would like to own the CDs, you can pay for them. Click here to download John's albums for free. Click here to purchase John's CDs.