joe
woodard/josef woodard
writing
free-lance journalist/critic for the Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Down Beat, Jazz Times, Jazziz, Jazz Hot, The Wire, Opera Now, Opera News, Santa Barbara Independent, The Santa Barbara News Press, Artweek, Grammy.com, Guitar Player, Guitar One, Guitar.com, Launch, Streaming Media, Newmedia.com, Musician, Option, etc., since 1980.
assorted liner notes, 1989 to present and beyond... miscellaneous magazine and newspaper clips, film reviews, "Fringe Beat" column, festival coverage
areas: jazz, pop, classical, world music, art, and film... won an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for jazz writing in 1998... completed a book on the Montgomery Brothers (Wes, Monk, and Buddy) for Silman-James Press.
presently working on a biography of Charles Lloyd... bio on WORD
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check out the new "HI
Radio," streaming tracks from the
Household Ink Records
catalogue...
joe woodard's myspace page
Headless Household: guitarist-composer, new music combo formed in 1983, seven albums out; Headless Household (1987), Inside/Outside USA (1993), Items (1996), Free Associations (1999), mockhausen (2000), post-Polka (2003). Vertical Medleys, Vol. 1 (2004) (special "hyper-remix" project), Blur Joan (2005)... presently working on 25th anniversary album, for release sometime in 2008... Headless Household myspace page
Julie Christensen: guitarist in her band, Stone Cupid, played guitar and co-wrote a coupla' songs with her on her album Where the Fireworks Are, Julie's myspace page
Joe Woodard: between (2002) "faux folk" singer-songwriter project, myspace page
Shelly Rudolph: guitarist, co-writer, and ally on the Portland-based "world soul" artist's Water in My Hand (2005). Shelly's myspace page
flapping, Flapping: guitarist-singer-songwriter, neo-Beatle-esque pop band formed in 1994, two albums out; Tex (1995) and Montgomery Street (1996) myspage page
Dudley: guitarist, art-folk band, formed in 1993, three albums out; Public Nudism (1995), Are Our Oars Out? (1996) and doin' jack (1999) , myspage page
turnip family secrets, first production of a "play with songs" by Michael Smith, with music by Joe Woodard, April 12-21, 2002, at Center Stage Theater in Santa Barbara, CA with a cast album now available...
Lean-To: guitarist-composer, "neo-fusion" outfit; Malarchitecture (1998)
works-in-progress:
new album by flapping, Flapping, two new Headless Household projects, work on new album by Ellen "Dudley" Turner, a new band or two...
ordering products on Household
Ink Records
whereabouts:
Joe Woodard
P.O. Box 2093
Santa Barbara, CA 93120
last modified: april 5, 2008