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Acclaim:
"...this is real porch sittin' music. Such
a generous, fun, authentic spirit comes through....it'll grows
on you by leaps and bounds with each listening."
Jennifer Deer
Host, 'ArtVoice'
WABEfm90.1
Atlanta, GA
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Lyrics:
Mustang Romeo
The Lone Cow of Pittsburgh
The Waltz
Too Deep Into Autumn
Nice & Slow
Ben and Jerry's
Hippies Jogging
Pretzel Song
Black and White Picture
Daddy's Recliner
Bio:
Joe Williams writes songs. Beautiful songs. Funny
Songs. Songs that glide and play like a starlet on a first date.
Simple songs with a full charming regalia of ill-advised rhymes
and concocted words. Songs that chronicle a secret world of heroicly
lost bovine, scared recliners, forgotten canoes, environmentally
conscious sugar buzzes, hippie joggers, hesitating-darting-hesitating
squirrels, and love. “I like to try and write romantically
about unromantic things, like waking up cramped and entangled
with your lover, with half your appendages asleep. Or kissing
someone for the first time, doing it poorly and hoping they don't
mind,” says Joe.
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Liner notes:
This album has taken several
years to create, and it is an aboslute pleasure (and relief) to
finally deliver the goods! The end result of so many months...
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Track commentary:
Three Squirrels:
I had set out to write a song in sort of a 'classic' folk song
style of
working sequentially through something. In this case, squirrels.
And I clearly remember writing these lyrics, sitting on a dilapidated
red
pillow-chair-thing on the front porch of my home at that time:
506 West Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill, NC, directly across the
street from the UNC Power Plant.
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Mustang Romeo:
All of the songs on this CD have some horribly autobiographical
information embedded inside. And even though I've never owned
a muscle car like Romeo here, I have definitely spent some years
in this mode of living.
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Evolution:
Evolution takes an excruciatingly long time, and I'm lucky to
have found someone willing to wait out the changes. These lyrics
are pretty straight-forward, but here's a side note about how
I arrived at writing this song. It seems like essayists and poets
are always writing responses to other essayists' or poets' works,
but you don't see much of that kind of thing in the music world.
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The Waltz:
Writing about waltzing is like a core requirement of folk songwriting.
I recognized this obligation early on, and began working on my
own waltz-related piece shortly after I started penning songs.
I figured I'd just get this waltz requirement over with, then
I could get back into writing about food and domesticated animals
- my preferred electives. I came up with the musical framework
for this song very quickly, and had the cadence of the lyrics
in mind as I played. But I couldn't really write any lyrics that
were satisfying. Versions, revisions and rewrites of this song
began to fill notebooks over the course of a year. I was seriously
stuck.
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Album info:
Joe Williams, Self-titled
2002, Banzai! Entertainment
Produced, Engineered, and Mixed
by:
John Plymale,
Mad Anthony productions
Mastered by:
Brent Lambert, Kitchen
Mastering
Producer's notes:
Joe Williams…why did I produce
a record for Joe? First, I love his music…which may sound
stupid…I've been going to his shows for years and he wasn't
selling any CDs I could take home and I wanted something for my
collection.
The energy he spins, or I should say doesn't spin,
when he plays live is wonderful. I remember reading a quote once
where the reviewer liked it when the musician is able to get out
of the way of the music and let the music become what it's supposed
to without a personality behind it. Joe's music (and I guess humble
personality) lives for me as an invitation to a being calm and
playful at the same time. He's so non-intrusive that it's beautiful.
-DW
Press Release:
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Center to view the Press Release. Tell 'em Joe sent ya.
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