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Josh Atkins

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General Info

  • Genre: Acoustic / Folk / Punk

    Location LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, US

    Profile Views: 13732

    Last Login: 3/12/2010

    Member Since 4/11/2007

    Website www.myspace.com/joshatkinsmusic

    Record Label Traditional Infidel Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    I know this is where one is supposed to hire a publicist to wax a bunch of poetic BS in third person about how great an artist is. I'm not going to do that but just let you know what I do and why. I was born in Southern Indiana in March 1975 and tried to independently telephone order my first guitar lessons from a Roy Acuff TV commercial at age 3. Needless to say I feel that if I was born to do anything it is write and perform. I have been playing regularly since age 12 and moved to Kentucky permanently at age 18- Richmond Kentucky- originally, and have been lucky enough to play with what I feel are some of the most talented and earnestly good people and musicians anywhere. I have played with the Fosters, My Plastic Joy, Hello Records artists the Union City All Stars, Able Danger, and with The Trustees of Modern Chemistry and also currently play drums for Slark Martyr. I have always liked the comfort of being backed up by a band and never thought myself a "singer-songwriter" but at this juncture in life feel it is time to test those waters as my musical inspirations and interests sometimes change like the weather. I like art and artists who are real (you know who you are) and people who are real. I hate American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, and most other television programming for that matter. I love Charles Bukowski, George Carlin and Bill Hicks. My songs run from pokes at myself to the vehement anger I feel towards the world today. I am not an optimist- I am a realist. I like to laugh at myself and everyone else. I like songs that hurt and songs borne of true desperation. I feel that is both the dicotomy and duality of the truly tortured artist, but most often produces the most gutteral and muse-invoked works. I don't want to live forever and I don't want to sell a million records. I would like for you to listen to my craft and give it a chance. Please feel free to let me know what you think. My self recorded solo record, "Lies That Lead to Gold" should be finished and released later this year, hopefully by fall. Stay tuned to my site for songs from it and to purchase it upon its completion. Thanks for your time. Josh Atkins

  • Members

    Josh Atkins-all lyrics, music and arrangements; vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, piano, harmonica, bass, percussion, drums, keys, noises, samples, engineering, recording, and mastering Jeremy Hug: drums on selected tracks, engineering assitance

  • Influences

    Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, Hank III, Johnny Cash, Townes Van Zandt, George Carlin, Charles Darwin, Tom Waits, the Stones, Waylon, Wille, and the boys; Little Feat, Bob Dylan, Drive by Truckers, Slark Martyr, Neil Young, Al Green, Woody Guthrie, John Gage, Kurdt Cobain, Black Frances, Morphine, Springsteen, John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, Hendrix, Butch Kaufman, Will Oldham, DAC, Taj Mahal, John Prine, Allwell Jones BT Johnson, Carlito Brigante, Bill Maher, Thelonious Monk, Count Basie (sp?), Paul Hatchett, James Dean, Elvis- "The KANG"; Albert Camus, Tyrone Cotton, John Lennon, Jane's Addiction, Bob Pollard-GBV, satan, Wayne Coyne, jesus, Waldo Asher, Tom Petty, Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, Jim Morrison, Timothy Leary, Sasha Baron Cohen, anyone on Stax Records, Bobby Senior, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jerry Reed, Charlie Pride, Dallas Alice, Bob Dylan, Bill Hicks, Gahndi, Muhammad Ali, the Blueberries, RL Ermy, Jackson Five, Barry White, Bob Marley, R.E.M., Kurt Vonnegut, the artwork of Ian Allman, the artwork of Bob Pearce, Alan Alda, Andy Griffith, Uncle Tupelo, Sunvolt, Wilco, Golden Smog, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Wes Arkeen, Sid Griffin, Jimmy and Dennis Flemion, Bob Dylan, Louis Armstong, Ray Charles, Robert Johnson, Kevin Smith, Herbie Hancock,Emmy Lou Harris, Gram Parsons, the Flying Burrito Brothers, the Trustees, and I could literally go on and on longer than any of you care to read.

  • Sounds Like

    I hope it sounds like Josh Atkins. You tell me.

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