<div dir="ltr"><div>Famous does not necessarily equate with composers or musicians who are deserving of the fame while others are on the margins. Not that I am saying anything to downgrade Josh Ritter, but what about Rosalie Sorrels, Gary Peacock, and Doug Marsh of Built to Spill, who unless he left this band, will be playing live in Moscow at the Modest Music Fest Oct. 7-8.</div><div><br></div><div>Consider Joel Foy, who attended Moscow High (Moscow Bears Class of 1970 Joel Foy: <a href="https://old-friends.co/class.php?s=23185&c=1970">https://old-friends.co/class.php?s=23185&c=1970</a> ) and is one of the best guitarists I have ever heard live. He was one of the most humble mild mannered people, which was remarkable considering he could have had an ego the size of a red giant star given how good a musician. I am puzzled there is not more about him on the Internet, live performances on YouTube, albums for sale, etc. What I also wonder about: if Joel has played in Moscow in recent decades? If so, I missed it. He may have left Moscow behind for good. </div><div><br></div><div>Info below about this genuine guitar monster, who it appears has a Facebook page. I hate Facebook, but this might inspire me to acquire an account just to say hi to Joel.</div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/joelfoymusic/">https://www.facebook.com/joelfoymusic/</a></div><div><br></div><div>A live performance by Joel Foy on YouTube. The audio quality is poor, but hey, its JJs Blues Bar, Ft. Worth! </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL2x11gTmcs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL2x11gTmcs</a></div><div>------------------------------------</div><div>Info on Joel Foy below. Some of this history I know to be true, but most I am not sure of...</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.tdpri.com/threads/tell-me-about-joel-foy.264992/">http://www.tdpri.com/threads/tell-me-about-joel-foy.264992/</a></div><div><br></div><div>In a career spanning nearly 40 years, guitarist Joel Foy has followed a lifelong musical path that started at age nine when he began playing trumpet in his school band. By the age of fourteen, he’d added guitar and trombone to his musical roster as the British Music invasion began dominating the pop music industry. While friends bought electric guitars and formed bands of their own, he began teaching himself guitar on an old Regal his father owned. While still playing trumpet in his Junior High School band, he went to see the then new film release In the Heat of the Night, not realizing that Quincy Jones had written and Ray Charles performed the soundtrack to the movie. The sultry gospel and soul sounds made an impression that has never left him. Within a year he was playing guitar with a variety of bands in the Pacific Northwest, working small clubs and school parties. He began playing guitar professionally at age sixteen, and has toured throughout much of the world in the years since, working in a variety of settings from Soul and R&B, to West Coast Jump, Chicago Blues, and solo Pre-War Piedmont, Texas, and Delta Blues. Early gigs included stints with West Coast piano legend Floyd Dixon, and Pacific Northwest Soul belter and harp man Curtis Salgado, a collaboration that lasted three years. Since those early days, his tastes and influences have grown to include countless blues, jazz, and roots artists from Blind Blake to Buddy Guy, Cornell Dupree, Hank Williams, Charlie Christian and Bill Jennings. In 1985, he moved to Southern California and began a two-year association with the late West Coast harmonica legend William Clarke. He played on Clarke's W.C. Handy Award nominated Tip of the Top and Rockin' the Boat albums. From 1987 to 1988 he held down the guitar spot in Screamin' Jay Hawkins' Chicken-hawks band, touring extensively in Northern Europe and recording a live CD, Live and Crazy in Paris in the summer of 1988. Upon his return from the 1988 Screamin' Jay Hawkins European tour, Joel commenced a four year association with the James Harman Band, during which time the critically acclaimed 1991 CD Do Not Disturb was recorded and released on Black Top. The raucous I Declare from this CD was singled out for inclusion on the Black Top release Blues Guitar Spotlight. During his many years of club and festival dates both here and abroad, Joel Foy, who now resides in Dallas, Texas, has worked and shared the stage with a variety of artists including former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor, Floyd Dixon, Luther Tucker, Smokey Wilson, Lowell Fulson, Kim Wilson, Duke Robillard, “Barrelhouse Chuck” Goering, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Dyer, Boz Scaggs, Papa John Creach, Rod Piazza, Christian Dozzler, Buddy Ace, Mark Hummel, Billy Sheets, Mitch Woods, Lazy Lester, Ronnie Earl, Charley Baty, Rick Estrin, Mitch Kashmar, John Hammond Jr., Dave Meyers, Champion Jack Dupree, and Duke Jethro, among others. In 2006 Chicago blues piano ace “Barrelhouse” Chuck Goering called on Joel to join him and Fabulous Thunderbirds front man Kim Wilson in the recording of his critically acclaimed Got My Eyes on You CD on The Sirens label. He returned to Chicago later that year to perform with Chuck at the 2006 Chicago Blues Festival and has since traveled to Bellinzona Italy for a appearance in July of 2010 with West Coast harmonica ace San Pedro Slim at the prestigious Piazza Blues Festival, recipient of The Blues Foundation’s 2010 Keeping The Blues Alive award. Since his arrival in Dallas in 2004, Joel has appeared in venues all over the metroplex both as a soloist, with his bands the Blue Royals and The Zydeco Royals and as the featured guitarist with internationally recognized piano man Christian Dozzler <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.christiandozzler.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#000080">www.christiandozzler.com</font></a> in his Christian Dozzler Trio. He’s regarded as one of the top traditional acoustic finger style guitarists in Dallas and also enjoys an international reputation as one of the top performers of electric blues today. He maintains a busy schedule of entertaining and teaching and produced and hosted for three years running the Robert Johnson Dallas Sessions Guitar Festival, a multi-media show and competition held in Dallas to commemorate the 1937 Dallas recording sessions of the legendary delta bluesman. His solo show is based on a rich musical heritage of classic Americana from ragtime to rock & roll that includes everyone from Hank Williams and Charlie Rich to Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry.</div><div>---------------------------------------</div><div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 7:34 AM, Tom Hansen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank">thansen@moscow.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="auto"><div><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">My most favoritest song about Idaho . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><b>"Idaho"</b> by Josh Ritter</span></div><div><a style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Idaho_Josh_Ritter.mp3" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://www.tomandrodna.com/<wbr>Songs/Idaho_Josh_Ritter.mp3</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Sing along . . . </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"All that love all those mistakes</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">What else can a poor man make?</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">So I gave up a life of crime</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">I gave it to a friend of mine</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Something else was on my mind</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The only ghost I'm haunted by</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">I hear her howling down below</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Idaho oh Idaho</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Wolves oh wolves oh can't you see?</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Ain't no wolf can sing like me</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">And if it could then I suppose</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">He belongs in Idaho</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Packs of dogs and cigarettes</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">For those who ain't done packing yet</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">My clothes are packed and I want to go</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Idaho oh Idaho</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Out at sea for seven years</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">I got your letter in Tangier</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Thought that I'd been on a boat</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Til that single word you wrote</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">That single word it landlocked me</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Turned the masts to cedar trees</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">And the winds to gravel roads</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Idaho oh Idaho"</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">------------------------------<wbr>-</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span><div id="m_-3230976345809161238AppleMailSignature"><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Sep 21, 2017, at 7:19 AM, Kenneth Marcy <<a href="mailto:kmmos1@frontier.com" target="_blank">kmmos1@frontier.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<p>Most Famous Musician From Each State<br>
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<p><b><a class="m_-3230976345809161238moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tinyurl.com/ych6gqr7" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/ych6gqr7</a></b></p>
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<p>While culture is not the largest of U.S. exports, it has had the
most pronounced and observable effect on the world. Global
entertainment is dominated by U.S.-produced art, with music as a
leading form. From rock and roll to rap music to pop, the world
loves American music.</p>
<p>American music is not itself a distinct genre. The country’s
evolving history and Americans’ varied experiences have influenced
art in different ways — over the years and across states. Each
U.S. state has produced musicians who — to varying degrees — have
attained some level of fame.</p>
<p>24/7 Wall St. reviewed a range of data indicative of popularity
to identify the most famous musician from each state.</p>
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<p><strong>39. Idaho</strong><br>
<strong>> Artist: </strong>Josh Ritter<br>
<strong>> Album sales: </strong>N/A<br>
<strong>> Top track: </strong>So Runs The World Away<br>
<strong>> Place of birth: </strong>Moscow<br>
<strong>> Active: </strong>1990s – present</p>
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