writing
books:
—Ladies Who Lunch (Household Ink, 2021), Josef Woodard’s debut novel, a satirical romp through LA in the ’90s, available in e-book, book book and audiobook form, can be found through the usual bookish portals (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.), as well as its own home store page, www.ladieswholunch.me.
—Conversations with Charlie Haden (Silman-James Press) (2017)
(Amazon page link)
—Charles Lloyd: A Wild, Blatant Truth (2015)
(Amazon page link, Silman-James Press page link)
–Horizons Touched: The Music of ECM (Granta) (wrote the chapter “ECM and U.S. Jazz”) (2007)
(Amazon page link)
—The Art of Symeon Shimin (Mercury Press), wrote a biographical essay, 2019
(Amazon page link)
periodicals:
…free-lance journalist/critic for theLos Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Down Beat,Jazz Times, Jazziz, Santa Barbara Independent, Santa Barbara News Press, San Francisco Classical Voice, Opera Now, Opera News, Jazz Hot, The Wire, 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.
musical projects:
Headless Household: guitarist-composer, new music combo formed in 1983, eight albums out on the Household Ink label; 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), a special two-disc 25th anniversary album, Basemento (2010), and Balladismo (2015), a mostly-ballads album, and more to come…
Headless Household Links on the interweb:
www.householdink.com/headless.htm
www.myspace.com/headlesshousehold
www.facebook.com/HeadlessHousehold
www.youtube.com/MrHeadlessHousehold
Household Ink Records YouTube page (with every track on the label accounted for–about 350 of ’em)
Lucinda Lane: new “IndieBossaJazzTwang” band with vocalist Nicole Lvoffand guitarist-songwriter Joe Woodard, with the help and the kindness of others… soon to release its long-awaited debut album, a year and change in the making…
Joe Woodard: solo guitar EP, Wedding Album (On this Day) (2022), “faux folk” album Goleta Electric (2022), between (2002) “faux folk” singer-songwriter project, Joe Woodard page on Household Ink site,bandcamp, soundcloud
Joe Woodard , Wedding Album (On this Day)
(Household Ink Records, 2022, HI-157) Wedding Album (On this Day) is a solo guitar EP consisting of instrumentals by Joe Woodard, as played at the wedding of Claire Woodard and her betrothed John Pemberton. Woodard recorded these numbers at Would-Be Studio. Ambient Dinner Music? Could be… * The EP is available, in digitalia and CD forms, in a lot of the usual outlets… Bandcamp, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon, Discogs, Apple Music, iTunes, the Household Ink Records products page, and more to come. Read Callie Fausey’s article in the Santa Barbara Independent, 11-9-22 here
Joe Woodard has released the “faux folk” album, Goleta Electric, on Household Ink Records. Call it a delayed follow-up to his first folkie outing, Between (2002).
Link to sounds: bandcamp, soundcloud, YouTube, Apple Music, Pandora/ Actual CDs: Household Ink Products page, Amazon, Discogs,
www.householdink.com/joe-woodard
flapping, Flapping : guitarist-singer-songwriter, neo-Beatle-esque pop band formed in 1994, with three albums out; Tex (1995), Montgomery Street (1996), and seeyoutonite (2020), the band’s first record in 24 years… bandcamp page, soundcloud page, facebook page, myspage 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
Shelly Rudolph : guitarist, co-writer, and ally on the Portland-based “world soul” artist’s Water in My Hand (2005). Shelly’s myspace 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… a new long labored-over album is set to be released in 2024…
turnip family secrets, first production of a “pla
y with songs” by Michael Smith, with music by Joe Woodard, April 12-21, 2002, at Center Stage Theaterin Santa Barbara, CA with a cast album now available…
Lean-To: guitarist-composer, “neo-fusion” outfit; Malarchitecture (1998)
works-in-progress:
new album by Headless Household, long-awaited finishing of album by flapping, Flapping (now called … flapping), a new alt country album, a “popera,” a new band with Shelly Rudolph, Tableaux Sonique, the debut album by Lucinda Lane (with singer Nicole Lvoff) and eteceteras…
ordering productson Household Ink Records
Household Ink YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/HouseholdInk
whereabouts:
Joe Woodard
P.O. Box 2093
Santa Barbara, CA 93120
e-mail: joe@joewoodard.com
last modified: august 2, 2024