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"Anyone reading this who hasn't
experienced Joe live really must try and catch a gig... Joe is the real deal,
- someone who actually CAN do the business on a stage - and you can trust me on
that one! Others may have had amps with volume knobs going to 11, but Joe will
show you that 12 is certainly attainable - whilst still being able to play exquisitely
at a level where you could hear a pin drop. I am sick of artistes who can't do
it and don't mean it faking it up, - which is why I am more than happy to fly
the flag now for someone who can cut it live in the classic fashion.....Go see
him!"
Gwyn Mathias, Sound Engineer, comment on myspace.com
Blues
Joe X was born in 1965 in the industrial suburbs of Naples (Italy). He met The
Blues for the first time when he was just 11. John Lee Hooker's warm and sensual
sound captivated and lead him towards what would become the meaning of his life:
The Guitar.
In 1984, he attends clinics at Umbria Jazz and plays with
Curtis Fuller, George Adams and Dannie Richmond. The following year, he’s
chosen for playing in the Umbria Jazz Clinics Big Band, opening concerts for Art
Blakey and Jazz Messengers and Stevie Ray Vaughan. He also wins a scholarship
in the USA at the Berklee College Of Music (Boston).
Thanks to teachers like
Kevin Eubanks, Jim Kelly, Al De Fino, Larry Monroe and Orville Wright, Joe X develops
a fine instrumental technique and more importantly knowledge of the theory. Above
all, he realises that music is the expression of the mind.
Back in Italy
in 1988 and 2 years later, the Hell's Cobra Blues Band, his own band, is ready
to tour... In 1997, after a long tour throughout Italy, he produces his first
album Living On The Road that contains re-arranged and original tracks that show
the various collaborations that Joe X has enjoyed in Italy and during his multiple
trips to the States. World class musicians have wanted him to play with them,
which them: Buddy Miles, Otis Rush, Junior Wells, Michael Coleman (Muddy Water's
guitarist), Sugar Blue (harmonica player in Rolling Stones' "Miss you"),
Shirley King (B. B. King's daughter), Sammy Fender and Sharon Clarke (Albert King
and Tina Turner's choir member). He also opens concerts for Canned Heat, Charlie
Musselwhite and Tommy Castro.
Year 2000: the second album In The Name
Of Love contains only original tracks with the exception of a tribute dedicated
to one of his greatest idols ... Jimi Hendrix.
Joe X has recently moved
to London (UK) where he is getting ready for new concerts and gigs throughout
the UK and all over the world.
Stay Free and Tuned!!!
www.myspace.com/bluesjoex
www.bluesjoex.com
Upcoming Shows
22 Nov 2008 20:30
The Alma London, London and South
East
29 Nov 2008 20:30
The Port Manor London, London and South East
1
Dec 2008 20:30
Bedford Park - Jam Night - House Band London, London and South
East
3 Dec 2008 20:30
CANCELLED - The Unicorn - Jam Night - House Band
Camden Town, London and South East
10 Dec 2008 20:30
The Unicorn - Jam
Night - House Band Camden Town, London and South East
13 Dec 2008 20:30
The Manor Arms London, London and South East
17 Dec 2008 20:30
The Unicorn
- Jam Night - House Band Camden Town, London and South East
7 Jan 2009 20:30
The Unicorn - Jam Night - House Band Camden Town, London and South East
10
Jan 2009 20:30
Churchills Battersea, London and South East
14 Jan 2009
20:30
The Unicorn - Jam Night - House Band Camden Town, London and South East
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