Artist Information
Biography
Blueyed Son is the one-person DIY band created by songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joe Drymala.
Recording everything himself using a single microphone in the living room of his NYC apartment, Drymala released his Blueyed Son debut EP "BLUE EYED SON" on 10/28/09, and is currently writing and recording his upcoming full-length "The Zero Years," scheduled for early 2010 release.
Blueyed Son was born in New York City, but Joe Drymala was born in Texas; he taught himself piano at 11 and guitar and drums at 13, and played in a bunch of local Bexar County-area prog metal bands until he left for college.
He spent a year at Berklee, dropped out, moved to New York, wrote some experimental contemporary classical music, got pissed off at George Bush, moved to Vermont for a year to volunteer for Howard Dean's presidential campaign, ended up as Dean's speechwriter, came back to New York after Dean got blown out, got an MBox, started playing around with pop music of every kind, wrote some pop and country tunes for a creepy downtown theater piece about a white supremacist teen pop band, got that music played on Good Morning America, started writing music to perform himself, created Blueyed Son, and started playing gigs all around Brooklyn and lower Manhattan, including Goodbye Blue Monday, Bushwick Music Studios, Matchless and The Local 269.
Instrumentation
Joe Drymala: songs, vocals, instruments, production, engineering
Discography
Debut EP "BLUE EYED SON" was released online October 28, 2009
Tracks are featured at last.fm, Jango, radioindy.com
Video
Photo Gallery
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b&w headshot
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Blueyed Son "The Zero Years" (upcoming LP to be released early 2010)
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setting up at The Local 269
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playing The Local 269, NYC lower east side
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more @ The Local 269
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bushwick grocery
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walking to gbm
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recording "bexar county"
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Blueyed Son "BLUE EYED SON" poster
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headshot b&w (photo by Cassie Corrigan)
Download print quality (high-res) version
Press
Setlist
currently it's about 30-40 minutes. a typical set looks like this:
Leave it all behind you
Come back to me
The first time
The Lonesome Death of Pablo Aguilar
Bexar County
Long Way Off
The restoration of the western shoreline
...and usually a cover song. recently i've done Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away", Kanye West's "Love Lockdown", and Jenny Lewis's "Acid Tongue", all on acoustic guitar with a Texas sound. i tend to just cover the songs that i'm listening to at the time, so this changes pretty much every gig.
i also covered "Born in the USA" at a July 4th barbecue, but you can't really rock that one unless the occasion is appropriate, and no one really rocks it like Bruce anyway, so I probably won't be doing that one again. unless Bruce asks me, in which case i'd have to do it. just in case the person reading this is Bruce.
