User:Mcr0727/Joe Bear

[[Image:JoeBearMusic.jpg|200 px|thumb|alt=Joe Bear Photo | Joe Bear

Origin: Los Angeles, California ''' Genres:''' R & B, Country Occupations: Singer, Songwriter, Musician ''' Instruments:''' Vocals, Guitar Years active: 2001–present ''' Labels:''' Clownputsch Vinyl ,Inc.  Organizations: ASCAP''' Website:''' http://www.thebearsays.com ]]

Joe Bear is an American recording artist. In his early days Joe worked his way through the local city hardware store, in the freight yards of Virginia, gigging in clubs at the age of 14. Growing up on Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, James Brown, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins he started recording at the early age of 16. The only white kid in a soul band, Wayne and the Exceptions, he toured the South back in the day when that just wasn't done. Their hit "Have Faith" which got to "34 with a bullet" in its first week on the black AM stations.

After finding his way up North to film school and started building sound tracks for industrial and feature films. That went real well for years until it didn't.

Original songs started to flow from Joe's pen not for projects, just because. Two new albums and they're still coming. These songs are his best work. You can taste the urban and down home flavors mixing well in every piece. It's all about the groove, but the lyrics'll get ya'.

Joe consistently works with guitarist Johnny Lee Schell who's played with Bonnie Raitt and John Fogarty. Mike Finnigan on B3 whose credits go back to Electric Lady Land with Jimi Hendrix, currently on the road with Crosby, Stills & Nash. Greg Leisz, pedal steel, who's frequently traveling with K.D. Lang. His 2006 concert at Levitt Pavilion in Pasadena, California was reviewed by Music Connection's Bernard Baur. Joe is a member of ASCAP.