Two years later, having relocated to Seattle and expanded to a quartet, the band released Spelled in Bones. In 2002, Fruit Bats signed with Sub Pop and released their sophomore effort, Mouthfuls, the following spring. Over the next two years, the group toured and refined its lineup, adding multi-instrumentalist Gillian Lisee to the fold while embracing more elements of pop and experimental rock. Bandmates Tim Rutili and Ben Massarella (who also owned Perishable Records) urged Fruit Bats to record an album for their label, which resulted in the trio’s 2001 debut, Echolocation.
When I Rowboat disbanded, Johnson continued to widen his network by playing guitar and banjo with Califone.
He also began dabbling in folk music with two of the band’s members, guitarist Dan Strack and drummer Brian Belval, thus forming the earliest incarnation of the Fruit Bats. Johnson began writing songs on his four-track in the mid-’90s before forming I Rowboat, a Velvet Underground-inspired indie rock band. Johnson (not to be confused with the Eric Johnson from Archers of Loaf or the guitar virtuoso of the same name).
Originally hailing from Chicago, Fruit Bats featured an ever-changing lineup based around the folk-pop songwriting of bandleader Eric D.
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