"One word, two syllables: in-tense"
As a songwriter Jerry Joseph is a rocker at heart with an emotional scalpel that cuts deep every time. As a musician he embodies original rock's boundary-free spirit that pulls healthy handfuls from country, blues, jazz and folk to create something that struts and wails. As a performer he channels all the touring miles and stage hours he's put in and recycles that energy back into a take no prisoners, force to be reckoned with. While he wears his influences on his sleeve – Elvis Costello, Neil Young, John Lennon, Steve Earle – Joseph's work manages to be joyfully pissed off and achingly bittersweet, often within the space of a few verses. There's a healthy restlessness to his music, a stripe of his modernity and tireless engagement with the world that places him next to younger contemporaries like Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes) and Ryan Adams. It's been five years since Jerry's been to High Sierra -- and it's high time that he's back in the mix.

"Sounding occasionally like John Mellencamp's older, wiser and psychologically mixed-up sibling, Joseph writes complex, image-laden songs and infuses them with plenty of attitude, soulfulness and swagger." - Washington Post