It just does not get any cooler than this:
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, you rule.
My name is JoAnna James. I am from Saint Paul, Minnesota. I write songs. I play guitar. I play a some violin and harmonica, too. And I sing. For you. :) So far, I have done these things in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Vermont, North Dakota, Montana, Colorado, Oregon, Texas, and New York.
I generally try to live in the now, but occasionally I get attacked by fits of nostalgia when I recollect the days when I was lucky enough to share the stage w/ musicians such as UK jazz sensation Jamie Cullum, Ken Stringfellow (of REM, The Posies and Big Star), Slim Dunlap (the Replacements), Joseph Arthur, A Girl Called Eddy, Mason Jennings, The Honeydogs, Steve Poltz, The New Standards, Missy Higgins, Cloud Cult, Mary Lou Lord and Dan Wilson.
I have been averaging around 130+ shows per year these past few years. Lots of them have been solo shows, but some I have been blessed to play with a killin' cast of musicians including Ben Foote, Jordan Carlson, Lizzie Brown, Jessy Greene, Chris Koza, Sharbidar Selissen, Luke Anderson, Andy Mark, Sean McPherson, Josh "Action" Peterson, Steve McPherson, deVon Gray, Peter Leggett, Peter J. Sands, Greg Schutte, John Munson, Adam Levy and Noah Levy.
Currently, I have two full-length CDs available for purchase. In October of 2006, I recorded a new EP with producer extraordinare, Duane Lundy that was released in April 2007 on Eclectone Records. Check out some of the tracks above, right here on MySpace.
