Frederick Joseph

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Admit it: you’ve missed wearing your Wayfarers and zippered leather jacket.

For about fifteen years, the gritty-voiced uber-balladeers of the late eighties and early nineties were temporarily benched, wishing for a chance for re-emergence in current pop and modern rock music. And though they are finding some dregs of the former glory in VH-1 rewind specials, the rock fans who had their first kisses and drove their first Mustangs as Bryan Adams and Don Henley crooned on the radio would rather yell every word to “Summer of ’69” while cruising to the beach than weep with the Eyeliner Emos.

It’s time for modern rock to get over itself and have a comeback.

Top 40 radio is showing a few deliciously retro changes, packing in nostalgic guitar and synth grooves guaranteed to send concertgoers grabbing for cigarette lighters (over 30) or iPhones (all ages) and light up a stadium in the presence of a great rock ballad.

Subtract the mall-grade cheesiness and mulletude, and meet Frederick Joseph, whose band boasts a pack of southern good ol’ boys—essentially, relief workers packing the feel-good, summer-friendly modern rock (a’ la John Mellencamp when his middle name was Cougar) your depressed ears have missed so much.

Frederick Joseph, co-composer, vocalist and guitarist got those rock chops at an early age. When his parents gave him a play guitar for Christmas, he threw a tantrum and demanded that, though he was a four-year-old, he would have the real thing, thank you ma’am.

"I grew up in New Orleans. My grandpa was a huge music fan. We'd go into his converted garage and listen to tons of jazz records for hours, like Louis Armstrong. And I heard a lot of my older sisters’ music, like Journey and Bryan Adams.”

Frederick graduated LPs to writing his own songs with a buddy at age 12.

“They were really cheesy and really stupid,” he laughs, “but I was a kid and wanted to be a rock and roll star!”

Trained in New Orleans by a renowned music director, Frederick went from mastering chord triads to a degree in classical guitar. After graduation, he hit the road with a singing group and toured 22 states in three months. Then he moved to Nashville, got married, bought a house, and gutted the garage to make room for his growing musical passions—and a killer recording studio. Since then, he’s written, produced, and released his first project, The Eyes of the Father, and produced and composed for several large-distribution audiobooks for Thomas Nelson Publishers, including two Word of Promise projects, starring Jim Caviezel. But the rock and/or roll itch remains unscratched.

“In the last two years, I wanted to go back toward more of the rock stuff I grew up on. Modern rock. I went from fitting a slot I felt needed to be filled on that first CD to being who I am, who I really want to be.”

Frederick is currently collaborating with Jessica Wallace and Dennis McCall, a legendary Nashville songwriter and Opry singer. The first single from his forthcoming project (title TBA), is “The Sun’s Gonna Shine Out Loud.”