Dr JOE

Raised on a farm outside Salina, Kansas, the band leader Joe Sparacino spent his early childhood learning piano from a southern gospel choir matron and listening to his family’s old vinyl collection of Ray Charles, Leon Russell and James Booker.

Joe moved to Austin after school and built a band around his energetic, psyche inflected, soulful positivity and started touring - He enlisted fellow Austin musicians: Pierson Saxon, Brennan Howell and Patrick Young and as DR JOE have become renowned around the USA for delivering a potent and invigorating revival- and always travelling with their very own ‘Ships’ piano – a battle hardened, stripped bare 1922 gem of an instrument with 5 Octaves and 68 Notes (as opposed to grand piano’s 88 notes and 7 Octaves - with a minor third).

Their debut single released in Jan of 2019: “Tell Your Mother” was produced by Vance Powell (six-time Grammy Award winning record producer) whose credits include Jack White, The Raconteurs, White Stripes, Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys, Chris Stapleton, etc. and recorded at his famed Sputnik Studio in East Nashville. It has already been streamed over 1 million times across Spotify and Apple.

Their second single GOOD DAYS, released in October 2019, was recorded at Niles City Studios in Fort Worth with Austin Jenkins (Leon Bridges, White Denim) as producer,badditional work by: Adrian Quesada (Black Pumas) and Abhi The Nomad and mixed and mastered at Abbey Road in London.

They plan to release their third single and an EP in early 2020.