Joey Odum - Guitar/Vocals,
Jim Clark- Guitar
Mick "The Stick" - Drums,
Mark Moreno - Bass
Influences
Stevie Ray Vaughan,
B.B. King,
Kenny Wayne Shepherd,
Eric Clapton,
Robert Cray,
Buddy Guy,
Howlin' Wolf,
Sam Cooke,
Wilson Pickett,
Jimi Hendrix,
Freddie King,
Albert King,
Jeff Healey,
Gov't Mule,
ZZ Top,
Little Feat,
Willie Dixon,
Joe Bonamassa,
Muddy Waters,
Johnny Lang,
The Allman Brothers
Junior Wells
Paul Butterfeild
Sounds Like
Gut busting blues that makes your hair stand up!!!
Born with Cerebral Palsy and confined to a wheelchair, Joey began playing guitar and writing songs at age three. His first stage appearance was with 70's rock legend Edgar Winter at six, and after that he knew that music was what he wanted to do. The Joey Odum Blues Project is a power trio that combines driving grooves with mostly crisp and clean, but strong guitar work. Come see for yourself what it is like to be part of the Joey Odum Experience!
"Work Hard To Play The Blues" is the debut release from The Joey Odum Blues Project featuring Joey Odum with two of Southern Illinois' finest musicians. Mick "The Stick" on drums and background vocals, and Mark Moreno on bass, and background vocals, with specal guest Shadi Frick on Hammond B3 Organ, and piano. This disc contains 10 original blues tracks that are straight from the heart. Enjoy!
Does your band need a place to play, but are sick of the jerks serving as "Venue Nazis," hosting only specific Cliques of bands? ...us too! Screw that. Who needs it? Guess what? Your wait is over! We are Virtual World Promotions. Our goal is to give EVERY rock band a stage, not just girl-pants wearing whiners, but METAL heads, acoustic rockers, experimentalists, whatever, a place to play and the means to accomplish their goals. We're here to swim upstream with ya! The cool thing is that we book at a venue in Carbondale called the Crown Jewel Lounge. We're taking a grassroots approach to re-building the Southern Illinois rock music scene one step at a time. Its really a group effort. We're ALL in this together. As a band, you can either be part of the PROBLEM or part of the Solution! Let's build a sense of community and brotherhood for EVERYONE in our area who love to rock out. There's plenty of space for bands and music fans to mix and mingle, and on Saturday nights, get pretty dang toasty on the booze (If that's your thing). Saturdays are our full on drunken rock fests! The Crown Jewel is a bar, but we host All-Ages Rock shows on many Fridays before the bar ever opens. These events are targeted at the younger crowds who can't attend the bar concerts. We think this will help to keep kids off of the streets, smoking crack and shoplifting, ha! Shows never cost more than $5 on either night. We have a full on sound system and publish the weekly rock shows in colored ads with Carbondale's NIGHTLIFE Entertainment Newsweekly as well as the local events calendar. * So enough about the Crown Jewel already, I'm sure we'll see you out there soon, but, its not the only place bands are rocking out. If you're in a band, and have shows coming up, let us know in a myspace message. Yes we have a Myspace, and it is VERY active. But only as active as the bands who contribute to it directly! No we don't have time to scour the internet and hunt down what
This is the link to some of Last Saturday night's Crown Jewel Video still pics in our VWP pics albums. Spent all day tagging and uploading stuff, so Please Please Please drop us a line about it. If you're not friends with the bands and people tagged in the pics, we Strongly encourage you to ADD them on myspace now. Its as easy as double clicking on their tag in the picture. Enjoy. Hope ya like 'em! http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=412112231&albumId=1286177
Oh, and if you didn't catch our post earlier today, there are several videos that have been uploaded today, from that same show. Just go to our videos tab. Hell, better yet, here's the direct link to see what we're doing out there. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.myvideos
Thanks for taking a look guys! And Thank YOU for supporting your local rock bands. See ya at tonight's Crown Jewel METAL show featuring "In Place of Fear, Adiah, CELLDOM, and Avenge the Ghost."
hey.... im great.. i'm finally teaching my own dance class and starting to really take off in my dancing career...i have a singing contest coming up with my best friend as well...lol
thanks joe! listen to get luck with you if you havent already. in the beginning if u listen carefully, u can hear me hitting chris in the arm super hard with a RAINSTICK. hahaha
Yes Indeed.... Dragons were slayed, and the Gods of Rock smiled upon us. Your enthusiasm is infectious. From the immortal words of Bob Dylan...."may you stay forever young".
hey!!! go to www. blackdiamondhd. com ...click on the link for the rock n rumble (its a picture of a large skull) go watch the delta video, and dont forget to give us a good rating. if you don't have a youtube account, it's pretty easy to make one.
