Joe & Vicki Price at Armando's

Joe’s music is a crazy elastic form of old-school guitar blues that sounds like nothing else. At times, it sounds like two or three guitars at once. It’s all just Joe slapping and hammering those strings and layering vibrations and tones over each other into this heady cocktail of joyous musical energy. Crazy tunings, the breakneck rhythms and the growling, dancing bass notes work together to weave a unique and utterly uncopyable sound and tone.

Vicki might be Iowa's answer to early Maria Muldaur (when she was Maria d'Amato) with strong currents of the likes of Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette, the Mississippi River vocal twang, but rooted more solidly in the blues than they. With a more disciplined and structural guitar style providing a comping background spine to Joe's slide and lead work, the two styles dovetailed into a coherent convincing whole....

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Joe’s music is a crazy elastic form of old-school guitar blues that sounds like nothing else. At times, it sounds like two or three guitars at once. It’s all just Joe slapping and hammering those strings and layering vibrations and tones over each other into this heady cocktail of joyous musical energy. Crazy tunings, the breakneck rhythms and the growling, dancing bass notes work together to weave a unique and utterly uncopyable sound and tone.

Vicki might be Iowa's answer to early Maria Muldaur (when she was Maria d'Amato) with strong currents of the likes of Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette, the Mississippi River vocal twang, but rooted more solidly in the blues than they. With a more disciplined and structural guitar style providing a comping background spine to Joe's slide and lead work, the two styles dovetailed into a coherent convincing whole.
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