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For Release: June 3, 2011
Contact Joe West at 505.471.1916 or through the Contact page.

Santa Fe, NM - Joe West is an award winning songwriter and performer based in the international art community of Santa Fe, New Mexico. His music has been described as "theatrical folk music" but is influenced by both country and rock.

Joe has toured extensively throughout the United States and Europe, sharing the stage with the likes of Peter Rowan, Arlo Guthrie, and the Violent Femmes.

Over the last two years, Joe has produced an all original children's CD, has written and produced a full length rock opera, has produced music for film and television (most notably the EMMY award winning documentary, SPLIT ESTATE), and most recently, created an all original conceptual radio show called THE INTERGALACTIC HONKY TONK MACHINE which airs weekly on Santa Fe's KSFR 101.1Fm.

Joe has recorded 8 CDs of his own original work and has produced several music videos.

His most recent album, ABERDEEN, S.D., will be released in June of 2011, and is a collection of songs written and recorded in Aberdeen and is made up of songs about people and personal memories of the town Joe spent time in as a teenager. It was recorded on an old TASCAM analog four track and created with "thrift store instruments" and "toys" from the Aberdeen thrift and pawn shops!

For more information contact Joe West at 505.471.1916 or through the Contact page.