The Bob Marley of guitar pop.

I'm telling you, if I hear Jack Johnson too many more times in these "traveller cafes" I am going to have to go out and buy a pirate version of his CD and smash it ceremoniously into pieces. The most banal album of all time.

Bizarrely, the only rival to JJ - in Thailand at least - has been Shayne Ward, winner of X Factor in the UK last year (Florian; Lindsay; Jason: Shayne WARD, not Shane Warne... ahem). Man I miss that show. Those cats gave it 110% at all times, regardless of whether the song was too big for them.