Slowly and steadily, since the release of his self produced and star studded
debut album "Labor & Spirits" (Redeye CD CAP-0201), Emory Joseph has
continued to prove how he's come to have gained so many well known friends
in the music industry.

Since February, and without the benefit of any national touring or power
promotion - the album continues to garner rave reviews and has found it's
way into the ears, and onto the playlists of many high profile programmers
here and around the globe.
The artist, who to-date has been strategically content to do little more
than "make endless phone calls, and mail free product and promo info" - has
now turned his attention to playing out live and building a national fan
base for his syncopated and lyrical -electric slide and B3 organ based,
brand of roots rock.
This summer, with the help of new friend and fan Bonnie Raitt, (pictured
sitting in with the artist at Mill Valley CA's Sweetwater Saloon) Emory
Joseph has opened sold out shows for Little Feat and Los Lobos, played to a
packed in-store crowd at Arhoolie Records' Down Home Music Store ("Emory is
an amazing artist, with a voice that has to be heard to be believed" H.
Gurney - Down Home Music), and sung and played in the red headed groove
queen's band for her sold out 20,000 seat stadium show at Seattle's
Bumbershoot Festival - singing duets with her on two songs and providing
guitar and harmony vocal accompaniment to her set, for pop artist Maxi
Priest - who heard him sing with Raitt in rehearsal, and for the end of day
R&B Review's encore which included the amazing Miss Ruth Brown, recently
rediscovered soul star Howard Tate, and blues phenom Shemekia Copland.


"The key element for me, and for anyone who starts late and out-of-the-blue,
is patience. The players and industry people who know I have the goods are
being very generous with their calls and support - during these long, and
not very glamorous set up months. I'm really looking forward to getting
out, and onto stages where fans of the swampy stuff I play can hear me work.
Until then, it's - to the fat phone! haha"

Emory Joseph