Joe P

One Liner:  Straight-forward guitar rock that sounds great, despite the weak name

Wikipedia Genre:  No Wikipedia, but this is rock and roll

Home: Asbury Park, NJ

Poster Position: 16
Weekend Two Only.
Saturday at 11:55 am.

Miller Lite Stage.

Thoughts:  I'm sorry, but that is an annoying artist name.  You gotta come up with something better than "Joe P" or you don't get to come to ACL anymore.  This guy is a fun listen, I've pretty much just kept it going for three days and gotten way behind on my work through the poster.  Kinda Pete Yorn-ish, which is a compliment in my mind.

Before being Joe P, he was in a band starting in 8th grade, Deal Casino.  He did a year at Berkeley in Boston before dropping out to figure it out on his own.  But his band dissolved at the start of the pandemic.  So, stuck in his basement, he started playing around with making music on his own and uploading it to TikTok.  Within a few months he had 300k followers on the TikeddyTokkity and millions of views for his videos.  I am pretty sure I have heard his top song before, I guess on the radio, but it sounds familiar.  "Off My Mind" has 39.2 million streams.

I sort of feel bad for the big black ball of death.  I feel like it just wanted to be his buddy but he was not nice to it.  But very good tune - nothing ground breaking but solid stuff.  "Fighting in the Car," also from that debut album, 2021's Emily Can't Sing, is also a tasty nugget.  No other albums since then, a 2022 EP called French Blonde, and then some singles that make it look like a new disc is coming soon.  The top track from the EP is "All Day I Dream About," with barely over 4 million streams.

Fun video and another good track.  Again, nothing super new or original going on here, but just good driving guitar music and lyrics.  "Birthday baby (The Girl With No Smile)" is weird, because the song cuts off at one point every time I play it, and Spotify puts up a little error message.  Strange.  He also does a good cover of Zeppelin's "Going to California" and another solid one of Springsteen's "I'm on Fire."

If you feel like taking 30 minutes to check out his horror movie that he made - I'm not going to stop you.  It also features four of his songs, so it is sort of a music video as well?  Odd stuff.

I watched about a minute, but ain't nobody got time for all that.  If you watch it all tell me how it goes.  Anyway, I'd absolutely go check this out.  Definitely enjoy.  But 11:55am!?!  Morning set?  That is jenky as hell, y'all.