Member Since: 11/4/2005
Band Website: www.joesolo.co.uk
Band Members: Hello There,
My new album, "Music From Potter's Field" is now available in any number of ways. There's a paypal icon here.....
at which you'll be asked to part with ten of your English pounds and I will despatch forthwith. Alternatively, there is an icon below..... ......to take you over to CDBaby where it is now available for the princely sum of $15. Or if you're playing catch-up, and want a copy of my last album "Me & Billy The Kid".... ..... it's only $7.50. Bargain! You won't get a better deal than that!
I've now also got a Facebook site if you want to pop over there and be my friend. This will gain you little else other than some pointless idle banter, but maybe you're into that kinda thing. I've also got a "Musician" page over there, and if you want to click on that and be my "fan" that would be lovely. You'll get updates on gigs/albums and the like, and I'd be mighty glad to see you.
A brief rundown on the story so far. I played my first gig in 1987. Spent the next three years busking; hitching around the place and sleeping on floors; writing songs and learning to play. It was the closest thing a smalltown boy could get to hopping trains like the old Bluesmen and, being a head-in-the-clouds dreamer, hooked on the myths of rock'n'roll, I loved it. My fingers and thumb eventually got me halfway round Europe singing songs by The Pogues, The Men They Couldn't Hang, Elvis Costello, Billy Bragg, The Clash, Stiff Little Fingers, Christy Moore, Steve Earle and, of course, Bob Dylan. In 1991 I settled in Hull and formed a band called Lithium Joe. I spent the next ten years jumping up and down banging out pop-punk to the four corners of the UK using my own label, Resolve Records, to release a bunch of 7" singles and a coupla cd albums. We toured incessantly, released 52 songs, caught no breaks whatsoever and eventually just wore ourselves out. When the band split in 2001 I was gutted, but I just wasn't ready to quit. I just stripped it all back down and started again. I holed up in my shed with a 4-track recorder and a single Shure mic. The first Joe Solo album "An Exile In Suburbia" was released in 2004, and my aim is to release one a year til I drop down dead. I have no money, never have had, so I can't afford studios or even decent equipment, but in Lithium Joe we always sought to do the best we could with whatever tools were at our disposal, and I still stand by that. If you love music enough, you find a way. Thanks for tuning in. Stick around, I'll be here for a good while yet.
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