Joe Swank & The Zen Pirates profile picture

Joe Swank & The Zen Pirates

About Me



Joe Swank started touring the south-east alt. country circuit with The MoJoDeans in the late 90’s performing with the likes of The Drive-By Truckers, Jason & The Scorchers, Slobberbone and Junior Brown...just to make a few. ** The Zen Pirates are Stephen Gardner on Drums, Alex D. Little on Bass and the multi-talented Scott Gilmore on guitar and vocals. ** The disc HANK WILLIAMS DIED FOR MY SINS is slated for a fall release, good lawd willin’ and the crick don’t rise.

To buy tracks from this disc (Or the whole album) click the I-Tunes button below:

To buy tracks from this disc (Or the whole album) click the I-Tunes button below:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/02/2006
Band Website: under construction (www.zenpirates.net)
Band Members: Joe Swank - Acoustic & Vocals ** Scott Gilmore - Electric Guitar and Vocals ** Alex D. Little - Bass ** Stephen Gardner - Drums
Influences: Shaver, Steve Earle, Willie Nelson, Jason & The Scorchers, Waco Brothers, Starkweathers
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Record and shows update

Hello folks and happy whenever you are reading this. Just wanted to let you know that we're a song away from mixed and aiming for Spetember release. We may pre-release digitally, in hopes of funding s...
Posted by on Sat, 23 May 2009 09:32:00 GMT

SO close to done

Well friends, The record is so close to done I can smell it. Spent last weekend at Rick Millers studio mixing and laying in a few overdubs. There is one more set of harmonys to be done and one song to...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:54:00 GMT

The MoJoDeans - A New Day

You're in the van...you're out of the van...you're all in Carbondale....then pieces of you at different times are in North Carolina. Well....The MoJoDeans are all in Illinois again for the f...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:39:00 GMT

The new record

Well folks, after several failed attempts and lots of lost monies trying to make this record, we finally hit it in spades! Rick Miller is fantastic and his studio rocks. We finished 11 songs (save har...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:11:00 GMT

When It Rains...it’s pours (Last gig-Friday 6/20)

So yes, the rumors are true. I leave in one week for Chicago. The two days before that will be spent recording the new record. Mixing and Mastering and reproduction will take place over the course of ...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:38:00 GMT

New Songs Now - New Record Soon

Hey Campers! Wanted to let you know there are a couple more songs up on the player. One we do live ("What If I Showed Up At Your Door" by request of Voodoo) and one that we've never pulled out to date...
Posted by on Thu, 22 May 2008 17:06:00 GMT

More Videos From Slims

Slightly better lighting from February 23, 2008. Two Covers.   Slip So Easily (Beauty of 23) - Lynn Blakey (Glory Fountain/Tres Chicas) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eesZDCGq3So   I Killed ...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:03:00 GMT

Its Been A While...

I think it was one of the great SNL alumni who said "You have a couple glasses of wine and eight or ten years slip away." That’s neither here nor there, but what I CAN tell you is that we’...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:45:00 GMT

Review & Video on Mann's World from 6/2

hey folks,Karen Mann (Mann's world Blog) did a nice little piece on us on her blog complete with a video, you can't really see anything, but you can hear and see shapes.This is from Slim's 6/2/07http:...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:48:00 GMT

First Two Albums available on Napster!

Hey Folks, My first two records... The MoJoDeans - The MoJoDeans (featuring Ratliff Dean Thiebaud of The Woodbox Gang) and Joe Swank & The Mule Skinner Band - Cowpunk! (Never before released - 200...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:47:00 GMT