Please welcome Josh Joplin to his new home of Chicago, Illinois. This will be his first show as a newly minted citizen of the Windy City and we plan to celebrate at the iconic Hideout! Sure Josh has visited and played many many shows over the years but he was always an outsider. A tourist. An interloper. A real slack-jaw bumpkin… But now he’s scarfing down jibaritos and hot dogs with the best of them. No ketchup for him ever again! His blood runs as green as the river on St. Pats.
Legendary artist manager Russell Carter (Matthew Sweet, Indigo Girls) says of Josh Joplin, “I am willing to bet Josh has written a bad song, but I can tell you I have never heard one—and he has never recorded one.”
Joplin’s latest full-length release, GpYr—produced by Josh Joplin and Grammy-winning producer Lorenzo Wolff (known for his work on Taylor Swift’s Midnights and Folklore)—lands somewhere between a concept album and a sonic scrapbook. It’s a story of four friends who, over one unforgettable summer and autumn, came together for a mission: to rescue Seely from a therapeutic boarding facility in remote New England. In saving her, they saved each other.
Spin Magazine says GpYr is “a collection of pop-infused gems that captures the raw energy of Joplin’s earlier works…but with the musical and lyrical layers of the older, wiser musician Joplin has become.”
Josh Joplin isn’t one to dwell on past glories, but there was a time when he was chasing songs worldwide. In 2001, His breakout single “Camera One” (produced by Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads, Modern Lovers) became the first independently released song to hit #1 on Triple A radio—the first independently released song to do so—landing the group on Artemis Records which boasted acts as varied as J. Mascis, Warren Zevon, The Pretenders, and, yes, the “Who Let the Dogs Out” hitmakers, The Baha Men. (“Camera One” may not have unleashed any canines, but it did land a spot on the cult classic tv show Scrubs.)
Joplin followed with The Future That Was (2002), produced by Rob Gal (Magnapop, Rock-a-Teens), and earned critical praise from Time Out NY/London, America Songwriter, Paste, Magnet, Vanity Fair, NPR, and others for his records Jaywalker, Among the Oak & Ash, and Devil Ship. His song “Blue Skies Again,” recorded by Jessica Lea Mayfield, has been downloaded over a million times on Apple Music, and “Camera One” has surpassed two million streams on Spotify.
Joplin’s “new album that reminds us all of how far we’ve come.” (–Spin Magazine)
You can’t help but be excited when talking about Orlando singer songwriter Cat Ridgeway. Her infectious energy and contagious enthusiasm in everything she creates is electric while her passion and commitment to her music radiates through her fiery blend of indie-rock and punk with hints of dream pop and folk.
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