Sometimes trippy, dark pop record built around acoustic guitars and intriguing lyrics set to experimental arrangements ranging from stark to totally groovy.

14 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Acoustic, POP: Folky Pop



Details:
Joe Fahey is a Minneapolis-based songwriter & guitar player who "daylights" as a freelance graphic designer.

He has played bass and guitar in various cellar-dweller, and occasionally-gigging, rock and blues bands starting in the late 70s; always careful to stay out of the way of the strobe light.

Born in Minneapolis in 1959, slightly downstream from the University of Minnesota where he would later earn a Fine Art degree with a concentration in abstract painting, prepping him for many years in the Janitorial field; Joe eventually became a Freelance Graphic Designer. He specializes in book & magazine publishing, designs childrenâs book covers and actually worked as a model in a How-to book about roofing.

Joe moved around the country quite a bit as a kid living in Hyde Park, New York (where he saw the Beatles on the the Ed Sullivan show, in other words, he watched TV); Boulder, Colorado during the colorful 1960s as the Boulder Beatniks gave way to the Boulder Hippies; Auburn, Alabama during one of the George Wallace regimes; the small town of Marengo, Illinois located somewhere between Rockford & Chicago where one of the most popular ways to pass the time was cruising the country roads listening to Pink Floyd and smoking pot. But Joe took no part in that, umm activity because he was more involved in ... uhhh ... letâs move on, or back.

As a Junior High Schooler in Alabama, a new series of âmini-coursesâ were added to the curriculum and it may as well have been called the âDIY Rock & Roll Band Prep School.â The first quarter was âTypingâ which would come in very handy for someone who might write a band newsletter later on. Next was âPin-hole Camera Photographyâ which also proved to be a valuable training ground for self-promotion. 3rd Quarter was âDramaâ which comes into play heavily if you know any musicians. And finally, the crown jewel âGuitarâ or âGit-Tarâ as it was pronounced.

The guitar teacher was the choir teacher and was given a crash course in guitar and she was about 2 weeks ahead of the students. For the most part it was a room full of kids strumming off-beat to âI Think I Love Youâ by the Partridge Family. At the end of the session, the students performed for the school, sitting on bales of straw and playing songs by Johnny Cash and fellow Alabaman Hank Williams Sr.

Around 1990, he formed a band called Carp 18 with Paul Schmitt and Dave Helgerson, They were together until 2000, releasing a cool CD called Russian Racehorse in 1997.

Carp 18 took a record length hiatus to "get it together" following the infamous Y2K Disaster and its lingering effects. But, everything seems cool now and Carp 18 is back together playing & writing music and celebrating the release of their 2nd album/record/CD "bug rump."

Joe also released his solo debut "Tote Bag" on October 31st (Halloween), 2006.
Joe also has played in an acoustic duo with Tom Herbers, acoustic jazz standards with vocalist Sarah Greer and currently plays in a 3-piece acoustic cover band (Johnny Cash/ Beatles/DEVO) called "The Bottom 40" with djembe-ist Kraig Olmstead and bassist Mike Mahin.