Macon Blind Guitar Legend Joey Stuckey
Working On New Blues Album Feat. Chuck Leavelle, Jimmy Hall and
Renowned Producer Ross Hogarth
Macon, GA - Joey
Stuckey is a blind guitarist, producer, educator, recording artist and media
personality.
Born in Green
Cove Springs FL, a city that has honored him with the key to the city and now
residing in Macon GA, for whom he is the official music ambassador, Joey Stuckey
is a power house of music talent. He has worked with icons from Alan Parsons to
Ted Nugent and Joe Solo, producer of Macy Gray to Sammy Nestico, arranger of
the Count Basie orchestra.
Last year saw him
take on the UK where he toured and released his latest single “Blind Man
Drivin'”.
The song and it's
accompanying video was a runaway hit and became the official theme song for the
Visually Impaired Musicians Lives Conference, held at the University College of
London where Stuckey was also a keynote speaker and performer.
While in the UK,
Joey also became friends with research teams from Queen Mary University of
London and Goldsmith's University and has worked with them extensively to
improve music technology for the blind. As a blind person, a studio owner,
producer and professor of music technology at Mercer University, this was a
roll Stuckey took on with ease.
2016 is already
shaping up to be a land mark year as Joey prepares to release the full length
album “Blind Man Drivin'” in early summer.
Says Stuckey,
“Music is the thing that makes me know I am a live. It is my spiritual bread
and butter and the best way I know to encourage and provide comfort and
inspiration to others, while at the same time entertaining and sharing stories
about who I am. When I first started making my own music it was a combination
of southern rock sensibilities mixed with bands like The Smiths and The Cure, I
used to think of myself as the Morrissey of Macon. I have played a lot of jazz
and my jazz album 'Mixture' was number 9 on the top 40 CMJ jazz charts for 5
weeks back in 2013, but, the thing that really seems to enthrall my audiences
is blues and that is now what I am focused upon.”
And no wonder
that blues is what Stuckey fans want to hear! With his versatile voice that can
whisper or shout with equal alacrity and his guitar playing that can make one
note cry or explode like a super nova with seemingly a thousand notes a second,
blues is Stuckey's true calling.
To make this
debut blues project truly memorable, Stuckey is working hard to gather old and
new friends alike to add some truly one-of-a-kind performances.
These artists
include:
Ross Hogarth –
Producer (John Melloncamp, Van Hailen R.E.M...)
Chuck Leavelle –
Keyboards (Rolling Stones, Alman Brothers, Black Crows...)
Jimmy Hall – Sax
and harmonica (Wet Willie, Jeff Beck, Hank Williams JR...)
Shannon Forest –
Drums (Toto, Taylor Swift and Rascal Flatts...)
Additional drums
by Brandon Khoo, Maypex endorsed artist.
Charley Hoskyns –
Bass guitar (Shayne McGowan, The Popes and Pete Maher...)
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