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Joel Kent Oliver

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"Music Youv'e Never Heard"

Some of the best music you’ve never heard comes right out of Johnson City, Tenn. A local duo, Andy Houston and Joel Oliver, are set to release their first CD called, “All Hopped Up”, which will go on sale in October exclusively on Itunes!
Andy Houston has been with more groups than I could list here, including one that took home first place in a Battle of the Bands, but it is his prowess with a guitar that sets everything he plays in motion. In fact, it’s Andy’s fabulous leads that will set this album apart as being completely different than what we, around here, have come to expect!
Joel Oliver, who started his musical ambitions in 1971, when he was playing drums on the original “Variety Roundup”, which aired weekly for several years on WJHL-TV, recently signed on with BMI as a songwriter.
But this CD, All Hopped Up, is being released on it’s own because this a work of two friends setting emotions to music! The CD is a variety of styles and genres with a mixture of instrumentals that range from meditative to “Was I really going that fast, Officer?”. Several of the songs with lyrics are also being considered at this time for TV backgrounds.

Please visit the website for more info- www.sonicbids.com/JoelKentOliver
- The Loafer-October 2, 2007-Volume 21, Issue 42


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CD titled- All Hopped Up
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BMI Singer/Songwriter

AVAILABLE only on ITunes!

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I have always felt that songs with lyrics only lead in one direction, which certainly has a valid purpose, while instrumental music gives the audience the chance to visualize and relive a special moment in their lives.
I am a published poet and have been included in 12 anthologies as well as recieving the honor of being chosen as one of the 100 best amateur poets, worldwide, for the past 6 years running, including 2007.
Andy Houston got his roots from being a minister's son so he was exposed to music and singing from birth on. He plays with a passion that appears sometimes to approach pain level, but I guess all lead players make faces when they play!
Andy really is an excellent musician and plays piano for church, but I feel like he was born to play guitar because of the ways that he expresses himself in his lead parts.
It seems almost like a mental bond to play music with Andy because he makes me hear more things than I originally thought about putting in a song.
All I want, is to evoke or revive an emotion from listeners, which is why most of my work is instrumental.
I'd say that we have both been influenced by the musical transitions that have taken place over the past years. We both grew up listening to the late greats, such as, Chet Atkins, Floyd Cramer, Patsy Cline and so forth. Then, there came FM radio and basically, after that, we soaked up every sound we could find, but nothing has seemed to take the place of raw, emotional instrumentals to evoke the response we wanted.