JOE MCMURRIAN
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© 2004 joe mcmurrian
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Joe McMurrian is an acoustic blues songwriter making huge waves in the northwest. His style is an intense original version of Delta Blues with a roots/folk experimental base. He plays high energy, intricate fingerstyle slide guitar with a deep resonant vo
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" I like your playing, you sure can rip on that Delta style son...."
Charlie Musslewhite 2004
" Joe McMurrian is a great, gritty singer and a fluid fingerstyle guitarist with more than a little Delta influence in his sound - and the artistic moxie to make it sound fresh yet timeless" Oregonian, A&E music review.
Joe McMurrian is a Delta Blues/Roots songwriter based in Portland Oregon. He has a rich capability to infuse tradition with contemporary invention through his intense finger-style, slide guitar work and original storytelling. He incorporates the delta slide over a fluid finger style approach reminiscent of a Robert Pete Williams, Skip James or Bert Jansch with a rhythmic base out of R.L Burnside, Big Joe Williams and Roscoe Holcomb. He has been compared to such modern masters as Chris Smither and Kelly Joe Phelps, but has a voice all his own and a bag of visions and sounds true to his own experience and delivery.
Joe found his fathers guitar in the attic one day when he was a child decided to keep at it. 30 years later he still likes it. Now living in Portland Oregon after many years abroad and up and down the West Coast, Joe enjoys the musical diversity of the great northwest.
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In Los Angeles he played every acoustic venue available, as well as receiving weekly airplay on the prominent radio station KCRW in Santa Monica. Joe has performed at countless venues & numerous festivals Including the past three years at the Portland Waterfront Blues Festival, Portland Brewers Festival, Park City Utah Founders Tile Bluegrass and Folk Festival, Pasadena Blues Festival, String Summit and the Listening Room concert series in Los Angeles. He has performed with such luminaries as Paul Geramia, Keb Mo, Paul Livingstone, Eddie Kirkland, John McEuen, Charlie Musslewhite, Preacher Boy, Sonny Landreth, Little Charley and the Nightcats & Louisiana Red. Currently Joe lives in Portland Oregon and can be heard on radio stations KBOO 90.7, KMHD, or can be spotted at any number of venues or street corners around town. Currently Joe is working on his third music project due later this year in cooperation with Blue Heron Records.
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