![]() ![]() JOE have become renowned around the USA for delivering a potent mix of psyche, boogie and southern soul whipped up into an incendiary riot of chaos and fun - all without the aid of any guitars - and always traveling with their very own ‘Ships’ piano – a battle hardened, stripped bare 1922 gem of an instrument with 5 Octaves and 68 Notes (as opposed to grand piano’s 88 notes and 7 Octaves - with a minor third). Side (Niles City Sound Sessions), this was one of the first songs the band recorded for the EP at White Denims Niles City Sound studio in Fort Worth. Joe built a band around this GOSPEL FUZZ sound with fellow Austin musicians Pierson Saxon, Brennan Howell and Patrick Young, and started touring. I run a 100-year-old piano through a guitar amp and it sounds huge. I call it FUZZ GOSPEL – because the songs have those wide handed gospel chords and vocal harmonies – but instead of sounding clean and sweet – we cooked them so they sound crunchy, distorted and overdriven. Joe says, “I was brought up on those big gospel chord movements and the energy of 60’s rock and roll. The subsequent singles have been produced by Grammy Winners Niles City Sound (Leon Bridges, Kacey Musgraves) and Adrian Quesada (of Black Pumas). ![]() ![]() Josh Block (Leon Bridges, White Denim) at his studio Niles City Sound. It has already been streamed over a million times. are drawn to the Bakersfield and Los Angeles sounds of the 60s and 70s. Their debut single “Tell Your Mother" was produced by six-time Grammy Award winning record producer Vance Powell (Jack White, The White Stripes, Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys, Chris Stapleton) and recorded at his famed Sputnik Studio in East Nashville. Raised on a farm outside Salina, Kansas, the band leader Joe Sparacino spent his early childhood learning piano from a southern gospel choir matron and listening to his family’s old vinyl collection of Ray Charles, Leon Russell and James Booker. Music icon: Leon Russell, Randy Newman, Elton Johnįun fact/secret: He plays a Ship's Piano - It has only 68 Notes rather than the normal 88. ![]()
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