Jerry Joseph

• 7th May 2022

• Venue: The Slaughtered Lamb
• City: London
• Postcode: EC1V 0DX
• Show Time: 20:00
• Ticket price: £ £15.40 (inc booking fee)

Tickets available

Tickets sold via Eventim

Jerry Joseph

"One of the greatest live performers I have ever seen and long one of my favourite songwriters, one of the absolute best of our generation." Patterson Hood (Drive-By Truckers)

Who the hell is Jerry Joseph? Well Patterson Hood and Jason Isbell have gone on record saying he is one of the best songwriters and performers ever, and are such believers that they backed him up on his newest album. Jason Isbell called him one of the greatest triple threats, a great singer, songwriter and performer. Richmond Fontaine liked him so much they took him on support for their UK farewell tour in 2016, UNCUT confirmed this giving his new album Americana "Album Of The Month" while Americana UK and Folk Radio both said it was contender for "Album of the Year".

While Jerry has been flying just under the radar in the US releasing records since the early 90s, he is unknown in Europe which is all about to change. The Beautiful Madness, produced by Patterson Hood (who also wrote the liner notes), is Jerry’s first proper European release. It is Jerry’s unapologetic manifesto on what in the hell is going on with the world written with concern only for shining a light on the truth. The album was recorded with all the Drive-By Truckers backing him up including Jason Isbell. Jerry will be supported and backed by Our Man In The Field at the Social for this intimate show and next year he will be backed by none other than the Drive-By Truckers in the UK and Europe next June in bigger halls so make sure you catch him now.

"One of the greatest live performers I have ever seen and long one of my favourite songwriters, one of the absolute best of our generation." Patterson Hood (Drive-By Truckers)

Who the hell is Jerry Joseph? Well Patterson Hood and Jason Isbell have gone on record saying he is one of the best songwriters and performers ever, and are such believers that they backed him up on his newest album. Jason Isbell called him one of the greatest triple threats, a great singer, songwriter and performer. Richmond Fontaine liked him so much they took him on support for their UK farewell tour in 2016, UNCUT confirmed this giving his new album Americana "Album Of The Month" while Americana UK and Folk Radio both said it was contender for "Album of the Year".

While Jerry has been flying just under the radar in the US releasing records since the early 90s, he is unknown in Europe which is all about to change. The Beautiful Madness, produced by Patterson Hood (who also wrote the liner notes), is Jerry’s first proper European release. It is Jerry’s unapologetic manifesto on what in the hell is going on with the world written with concern only for shining a light on the truth. The album was recorded with all the Drive-By Truckers backing him up including Jason Isbell. Jerry will be supported and backed by Our Man In The Field at the Social for this intimate show and next year he will be backed by none other than the Drive-By Truckers in the UK and Europe next June in bigger halls so make sure you catch him now.

Our Man in the Field

Think of Our Man In The Field – AKA Alexander Ellis – as an independent correspondent, with his works dispatches from his travels. So classically crafted are Ellis’ songs that you could be forgiven for thinking you’ve heard Our Man In The Field somewhere before. He and his brilliant band of pedal steel, guitar, banjo, upright bass and drums (with fine harmony backing vocals) take inspiration from the alt-Americana and Caledonian soul stylings of Van Morrison, Neil Young, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Ryan Adams and Wilco. His own sound is undefinable yet familiar- its introspective, intimate and deeply soulful style stands comfortably alongside modern day artists Ray LaMontagne, Damien Rice, Foy Vance and Joe Purdy.

press release below for Jerry and bio attached, announce sounds good then!

"One of the greatest live performers I have ever seen and long one of my favourite songwriters, one of the absolute best of our generation." Patterson Hood (Drive-By Truckers)

Who the hell is Jerry Joseph? Well Patterson Hood and Jason Isbell have gone on record saying he is one of the best songwriters and performers ever, and are such believers that they backed him up on his newest album. Jason Isbell called him one of the greatest triple threats, a great singer, songwriter and performer. Richmond Fontaine liked him so much they took him on support for their UK farewell tour in 2016.

While Jerry has been flying just under the radar in the US for decades, he is unknown in Europe but that is all about to change. Currently residing in Portland Oregon Jerry has been releasing records and touring the States and the rest of the world since the early 1990s.

The Beautiful Madness, produced by Patterson Hood (who also wrote the liner notes), is Jerry’s first proper European release. It is Jerry’s unapologetic manifesto on what in the hell is going on with the world written with concern only for shining a light on the truth. Sometimes Jerry hits you with a sledgehammer but usually it’s a slowburn, building with each line of vivid and raw lyrics as the truth of his stories are revealed. The album was recorded at Matt Patton’s studio, Dial Back Sound, in Water Valley, Mississippi with the Stiff Boys aka all the Drive-By Truckers backing him up for the music on the album, not just a tune or two. It was also the first time the Truckers recorded with Jason Isbell since he left the band in 2007, Isbell plays slide guitar on the searing ballad “Dead Confederate”, which Hood says is “one of the best songs about prejudice and racial hatred that I have ever heard.”

The album runs the whole gamut of Jerry’s songwriting from heavy ballads to rolling upbeat alt-country tunes like the “Days of Heaven” opener to his darker than dark epic and brooding “Sugar Smacks” which sees no stone left unturned on his take of the modern #metoo world. And his tribute to David Bowie on “Black Star Line” written around the first time he saw him in 1974 on the Diamond Dogs tour. The album sees Jerry embracing classic songwriting with the Truckers keeping everything lean and trim.

The album was written in Mexico, Marin Country, CA and South Africa, a small example of where Joseph’s wanderlust has led him. Joseph has spent years traveling the world’s more far-flung, under-explored locales and has experienced firsthand the power of music to unify. This understanding inspired Jerry to found NOMAD Music Foundation, a non-profit to provide music and instruments to children in war zones. He has travelled to Kurdistan and Afghanistan, where he has donated guitars to teenagers in refugee camps, giving them lessons and hope along the way. His live shows are a force to be reckoned with, (Woody Harrelson is a longtime fan and previously co-wrote and recorded with him) and Jerry will be touring into 2021 throughout Europe with his first headline London show in over 15 years this June. Jerry has toured the world playing in Japan, Australia, SE Asia, Latin and South America both solo and with a host of other acts.

Jerry will be on tour this June supporting the Drive-By Truckers in the UK and Europe.

Event info provided by Eventim.