Johnny Rioux the greater Houston area. Street Dogs – "Stand For Something Or Die For Nothing" (2018) Johnny Rioux Johnny Rioux is a not-dead musician with newfound love of performing in tracksuits, father of a Brady Bunch style family with 17 children, primarily known for playing in and working with many punk rock bands, and for being a "Goodwill Date/ Eyes Wide Shut" Mashup enthusiast. He was initially based in Boston but is now based in Texas and a barber at East End Barber in Houston, where he is treated with reverence in his godfather role as "the Ol' Dirty Bastard of
Johnny Ace wrote and performed the song "The Late Great Johnny Ace", in which a boy, upon hearing of the death of Ace, orders a photograph of the deceased singer: "It came all the way from Texas / With a sad and simple face / And they signed it on the bottom / From the Late Great Johnny Ace." The song develops a touching counterpoint with the death of two other Johnnies – John Lennon and John F. Kennedy. Simon also performed "Pledging My Love" on his tour of Europe and North America in 2000. David Allan Coe covered "Pledging My Love",