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Artist
Wake Up Mordecai
12+ albums
about
Most 16-year-old high school kids are celebrating their new found driving liberties, cramming for the ACT, or complaining about their parents. Unfortunately Johnny Callon isn’t like most high school kids and all he has to show for it is his first album. Callon is the young talent cleverly and shyly masquerading behind the name of Wake Up Mordecai. Poptek Records is very giddy to debut Wake Up Mordecai to everyone outside of Vandalia-Butler High School with the release of North to the Nth Degree. It’s been less than a year since Callon started trying to express himself through song but it is already evident that he has been gifted with a rather mature pop sensibility. All throughout North to the Nth Degree the songs are catchy enough to even make some music veterans jealous. Sample “Girls Don’t Ride in Viking Ships” for a text book sing-a-long chorus. Also listen to how a simple zylophone melody can absolutely make a song like “Now We’re Communicating”. Callon displays an odd sense of humor as well. What else would anyone expect from an awkward teenager? Whether covering the distraction AP Chem can be to romance, his pet Swedish bird, or girls, hips, and tight jeans, Wake Up Mordecai writes with child-like imagination. And he writes well too. More than good melodies, Callon shows he can turn out a witty phrase. While sheltered and introverted, another part of the allure of Wake Up Mordecai is the way Callon turns hero-like in his shyness. When he is on stage that awkwardness
