User:Mcr0727/Joe Bear

Joe Bear

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Origin: Los Angeles, California
Genres: R & B, Country
Occupations: Singer, Songwriter, Musician
Instruments: Vocals, Guitar
Years active: 2001–present
Labels: Clownputsch Vinyl ,Inc.
Organizations: ASCAP
Website: http://www.thebearsays.com

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. Joe is a member of ASCAP.

Biography

Discography

• 
  The Bear Says So
  released July, 2002The Bear Says So
  Full O' Bull
  Nelson
  The Road Rager
  What You Do
  No Right To Sing The Blues
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  Bear Country
  released Aug 19, 2005A Little Bitty Piece
  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
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  Something Strange
  released July 29, 2005A Song Like That
  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...

External Links

• Official Website
  
• Joe Bear on Facebook