2 Josh Garrett songs featured on Dan Akroyd’s House of Blues Radio Show

Posted: December 18, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Blues, Gulf Coast Marketplace, Louisiana, Music, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment »

Great music, hard work and thousands of miles on the tour bus appear to be paying off for Houma, Louisiana’s Josh Garrett Band this holiday season. Their song “Sleepin On the Levee” will be featured as the ”Blues Breaker” song of the week on December 17th and 18th House of Blues Radio Show, hosted by Dan Aykroyd (aka Elwood Blues). “String of Problems” will be played on the same radio program on December 31st and Jan 1st. Aykroyd’s radio show focuses on emerging artists. Visit Dan Aykroyd’s website thebluesmobile.com.

Both songs are on Josh Garrett’s most recent album ”String of Problems” which hit #1 on the Roots Music Louisiana Blues Charts the first week of December.

Josh Garrett was featured in an earlier post on BayouResilience.com.

Visit Josh Garrett’s website, joshgarrettmusic.com, or visit his page on the Gulf Coast Marketplace.

It’s a pleasure to help introduce Louisiana artists and musicians like Josh Garrett on BayouResilience.com and the Gulf Coast Marketplace.

 

The mission of The Gulf Coast Marketplace is to contribute to community recovery by providing opportunities for economic growth and financial independence to individuals and families, especially those impacted by disaster.

The Gulf Coast Marketplace is being developed as a virtual festival to help celebrate and deliver the talents of Louisiana artists, craftsmen and micro-enterprises to a global market. In addition to introducing a unique culture and heritage to the world, the Gulf Coast Marketplace is one important element of a 3-tiered community recovery program led by Options for Independence to bring income into households that have experienced economic challenge.

Louisiana in his blood, Josh Garrett delivers a blues style that’s all his own

Posted: October 6, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: @gulfcoastmarket, BayouResilience, Blues, Gulf Coast Marketplace, Gulf Oil Spill, Jim Pittman, Louisiana, Music, Options for Independence | Leave a comment »
Louisiana singer/guitar player, Josh Garrett, now tours the country and climbs the “Roots Music Report” charts with his 3rd album “String of Problems”, released in August 2011. At the time of this post, ”String of Problems” was #43 on the “Top 50 Roots Rock” CD‘s - sharing the charts with such critically acclaimed artists as Lucinda Williams, Robbie Robertson, Ryan Adams, Drive-By Truckers, North Mississippi Allstars, Lou Reed and the Grateful Dead. Born in New Roads and raised in Houma, Josh was exposed to Louisiana cajun, zydeco and the blues at a very young age. At age 12, he picked up his dad’s guitar, started playing and writing…and has hardly looked back.
By the age of 20, Josh Garrett performed several times a week in downtown Houma until he was deployed to serve his country in Iraq at age 24. He returned from overseas at age 26 with a handful of songs that would eventually become his first album, “Changed Man”.  Garrett and his band “Bottomline” traveled regionally to promote “Changed Man” and in late 2008, he relocated to Nashville to perform three nights a week at a club on historic Printer’s Alley. There, he recorded and released his second disc in November 2009, a double album titled ”Live on Printer’s Alley”.
In 2010, Garrett returned to his Louisiana roots to record ”String of Problems” at New Orleans’ Fudge Studios.
“I was rejuvenated by moving back to Louisiana; I love it here so much.  It’s my home.  My family is here.  My life is here.  I think the music on the record reflects that,” says Josh Garrett on his website, www.joshgarrettmusic.com.
“I feel like I’m at the beginning of my career. There’s a lot more for me to do, a lot more places to go, a lot more shows to play, and a lot more albums to record.”
His soulful vocals, emotional guitar work, and that “flavor” that only comes from those with “Louisiana in their blood” is what makes Josh Garrett unique.
Josh Garrett became the first Louisiana musician to lend his support to the “e-commerce solution for community recovery”. Josh’s page on the Gulf Coast Marketplace features a couple of live video performances.

“I appreciate that the Gulf Coast Marketplace is providing a platform for Louisiana artists to introduce their stories and products to a larger audience,” said Josh Garrett in a recent interview. “I am grateful for the opportunity to be a part of such a wonderful project”.

The mission of the Gulf Coast Marketplace is to contribute to community recovery by providing opportunities for economic growth and financial independence to individuals and families, especially those impacted by disaster.

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