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). Biography 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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They played at festivals such as Sasquatch Festival, Bonnaroo Music Festival, and Le Guess Who, and made TV appearances on Last Call with Carson Daly and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Fruit Bats would become part of Sub Pop's early 2000s folk-rock boom and record four albums for the label, with Johnson being the only constant over many lineup changes. It was on tour with Califone that he befriended the members of Modest Mouse and The Shins, who took an interest in Fruit Bats and made an introduction to Sub Pop records. In 2000 he became a member of the experimental folk-rock group Califone. At the time he was an instructor at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music, and fronted a band called I Rowboat. Johnson formed Fruit Bats as a solo 4-track project in the late 1990s.
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