Colfax's Kyle Johnson returns with guitar, songs

Kyle Johnson pushed the ball up the floor for Coach Reece Jenkin as a starting guard for Colfax High School on the 2012 2B state championship basketball team. He then played a year for Spokane Community College and earned a business management degree from Whitworth.

Now he works a different kind of stage as a singer/songwriter, under the name of Kyle Richard, a folk-pop act, a guy with an acoustic guitar and a loop pedal.

Richard is Johnson's middle name.

He has played around Spokane/Coeur d'Alene for the past year and a half, after his first performance in Chelan, and his first paid one in Ja...