Joshua Sanders

Artist Information

Biography

Josh Sanders' musical background includes years of study in jazz and blues guitar (electric and acoustic) & bluegrass (acoustic). Josh performs regularly around NYC, the Hudson Valley and Jersey Shore either solo or with his trio of Max Johnson on bass and Ben Swan on fiddle. Josh has been a guest, twice, on the highly regarded "Tennessee Border Show" on NYC's WKCR, and Josh’s music has received radio airplay on Americana/country radio station WICR 88.7 in Indianapolis as well as on the WFDU 89.1 "Traditions" program with Ron Olesko, and on internet radio (Terry Ann McClean's Bluegrass Mix, www.bluegrassmix.com). Josh's music page is at sonicbids.com/joshuasanders; additional videos can be found at youtube.com/joshuasandersmusic.
Joshua Sanders’ songwriting shows the influences of his two longtime heroes, Bruce Springsteen and the late Townes van Zandt. Though a native of New York City, he became corrupted driving cross country on his way to college in California when he heard local bands covering “Take Me Back to Tulsa, I’m Too Young to Marry” and “Mama Don’t Let Your Babies Grow up to be Cowboys”. A summer spent in Santa Barbara and listening to country bands covering Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash tunes at the now defunct Sportsman Bar sealed the deal. Josh’s teachers have included singing coaches/voice instructors Susan Anders in Los Angeles and Janie Barnett in New York. He studied guitar in Los Angeles with Gary Mandell of Boulevard Music and in New York with Glenn Alexander, Matt Smith and Robin Greenstein. Mr. Sanders' early band experience was primarily electric blues, which he found was tremendously helpful in terms of putting all those guitar lessons to some kind of practical use, as well as figuring out how to work with the bass and drums to form a singular sound. Since 1999 he has attended several songwriting circles here in New York, with a goal, rarely achieved, of writing one song every week.

Instrumentation

Ben Swan - Fiddle
Max Johnson - Upright Bass

Discography

Studio album due out sometime in early spring..
"Alley Cat", Four Years in the Big House", "Anna Lee" and "I'm Gonna be on the Radio" have all been WICR 88.7 in Indianapolis. Music is broadcast from studio and streamed live over internet simultaneously.
"Four Years in the Big House" has been on Internet radio station www.Bluegrassmix.com on Teri Ann Mclean's show...

Links

• Facebook
• MySpace
• Twitter

Audio

• LIVE @ PARKSIDE Josh Sanders
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• Dog Run EPK MP3
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• ALLEY CAT
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• wkcr interview & performance
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• Switchblade Junkies, live version
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• Four Years in the Big House
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Lyrics

• Alley Cat
• Missy
• Anna Lee
• Four Years in the Big House

Video

Alley Cat

Joshua Sanders Video 2

Photo Gallery

Press

• Josh Sanders [+ Show ]
  

  "Joshua Sanders' music possesses an uncanny ability to draw in anyone within earshot and hold them t..."Joshua Sanders' music possesses an uncanny ability to draw in anyone within earshot and hold them there, spellbound. His original songs and first-rate guitar work both possess a genuine quality and underlying sincerity that audiences find irresistible."
  - Cary Allen Fields, host, "Redbud Radio" & "The Fields of Bluegrass Radio Hour" WICR, Indianapolis
  

Setlist

12 or so songs, mostly originals, with a Townes van Zandt cover and a couple of Old Crowe Medicine show tunes...

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