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In The Beginning |
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July
21, 1954
Born, Greenville, NC
Sign: Cancer
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1962
Mom teaches piano. Gives Joe free lessons. |
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Falls
in love with the sax after hearing Yakety Yak by the
Coasters. Shotgun by Jr. Walker and the Allstars
gets him hooked. |
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Wants
to learn sax but the school band director makes him learn
clarinet. How embarrassing. |
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Borrows
an alto sax from a cousin and amazingly doesn't pawn it. |
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1967
Joins his first band, The Riddlers, playing soul music. |
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1968
Joins The Senators, "More soul, all the time." |
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1970
Plays in high school marching band and stage/jazz band. Hip
arrangement of Whole Lotta Love inspires
football team. |
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1971
Goes to military school. Joins the Zig Zags doing rolling
paper tribute songs like Summertime Blues. |
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1972
Borrows Kay acoustic guitar from a friend and tunes it to open E
so he can play slide like Duane Allman. |
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Buys
triple neck table steel and borrows a 100-watt Marshall amp.
Plays Jo Jo Gunn, ZZ Top, The Allman Brothers, and sneaks into the Tiki Club
in Greenville for open jam. |
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June
1972
Joins the Outlaw Band. Doesn't have the success the later
Outlaws did.
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November
1972
Joins Heartwood playing steel and sax. Moves to Athens, GA.
Records first album.
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Tours
the country, opening for Asleep at the Wheel, Nitty Gritty
Dirt Band, Kinky Freedman and the Texas Jewboys, and David Allen
Coe. Unknown comic named Steve Martin opens up for them. |
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August1975
Lagniappe. If you don't know, don't ask. |
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PART
2
Joe moves to California, Georgia, Virginia, Woodstock, and
Nashville |
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