| Joe Land (acoustic guitar, resonator guitar and banjo) is originally from Houston, Texas; living in California since 1969. Like most people, it took an outside influence to start Joe on the road to playing guitar. That was the music he first heard during the folk music era in the early 1960’s. He started playing guitar back in 1967 after dropping in at a local coffee house back in Norfolk Virginia an hearing someone play “Panama Limited” using a bottle neck guitar. He thought it was the most incredible sound he had ever heard and has been hooked ever since. After piddling around with the guitar for about ten years, he heard the Marshall Brickman album “New Dimensions in Bluegrass,” later re-released as the “Deliverance” Soundtrack album and that forever started Joe on the road to bluegrass music. He’s been in and around the Southern California Bluegrass scene for about 30 years, attending bluegrass festivals and jamming whenever the opportunity arises. To Joe, music, especially bluegrass, is what makes life enjoyable and a day does not go by without picking up an instrument. God willing, Joe hopes that his last day on earth will still find him playing a song. |
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