Price, Joe

Deep root blues breaks it down, wakes it up and releases it. The blues' got two heads, a growl and a whisper, a holler and a sweet moan. This is the way it gets us from ahead and from behind, in the exact center and far off beyond the light of the river moon.

Joe Price has himself tucked in, a bullfrog's voice from the Mississippi, just outside the boathouse and lumber-barge town now called Lansing, Iowa. Walk in and there's an old National Steel hanging on the wall, resting, "Grandma" she's called. "Seen it all," she says.

Joe Price has shared the stage with countless blues, folk, and root legends like Muddy Waters, KoKo Taylor, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and John Lee Hooker - like Homesick James, Willy Dixon, and Clifton Chenier. But then there's this story that takes place in Louisiana, way before all that, when Joe bought a Stella 12 string at a gas station for nothing. Roadburned and leaning on the counter, inside from the heat of Ascension County's summer sun, as an exchange was made and floodgates were opened. The blues knew about Joe long before the stage did, and this particular day it just decided to reach way down and grab him out loud.

Joe Price is "seriously plugged-in." He's a one man steam engine coal cars full, running the rails and pushing the work boot blues.

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