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Joe Bear is an American recording artist. In his early days Joe worked his way through the local city hardware store, in the freight yards of Virginia, gigging in clubs at the age of 14. Growing up on Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, James Brown, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins he started recording at the early age of 16. The only white kid in a soul band, Wayne and the Exceptions, he toured the South back in the day when that just wasn't done. Their hit "Have Faith" which got to "34 with a bullet" in its first week on the black AM stations.
After finding his way up North to film school and started building sound tracks for industrial and feature films. That went real well for years until it didn't.
Original songs started to flow from Joe's pen not for projects, just because. Two new albums and they're still coming. These songs are his best work. You can taste the urban and down home flavors mixing well in every piece. It's all about the groove, but the lyrics'll get ya'.
Joe consistently works with guitarist Johnny Lee Schell who's played with Bonnie Raitt and John Fogarty. Mike Finnigan on B3 whose credits go back to Electric Lady Land with Jimi Hendrix, currently on the road with Crosby, Stills & Nash. Greg Leisz, pedal steel, who's frequently traveling with K.D. Lang. His 2006 concert at Levitt Pavilion in Pasadena, California was reviewed by Music Connection's Bernard Baur.[1] Joe is a member of ASCAP.
Biography
[edit]Early Years: Virginia
[edit]2001-present: Career
[edit]Music style and influences
[edit]Philanthropy
[edit]Discography
[edit]-
The Bear Says So The Bear Says So
released July, 2002
Full O' Bull
Nelson
The Road Rager
What You Do
No Right To Sing The Blues -
Bear Country A Little Bitty Piece
released Aug 19, 2005
No Right To Sing the Blues
Ready
What You Do
Road Rager
Flyin' High On the Hog
Kill All the Bad Guys
Nelson
Baby You're Right
Blue and Lonesome
The Bear Says So
Full O'Bull
I'm Gone So Long
Your Turn -
Something Strange A Song Like That
released July 29, 2005
Like A Homicide
Over the Rainbow
No Right To Sing the Blues
Ready
Your Turn
You're Fired!
Kill All the Bad Guys
Gangsta President
Baby You're Right
I'm Gone, So Long
What If...
References
[edit]- ^ MusicConnection.com http://www.thebearsays.com/reviews.php Bernard Baur. Retrieved 2006-08-28