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Joe's Truck Stop
From a ridge in the Ohio River Valley, on a front porch where Kentucky’s visible through the winter’s bare trees, Joe Truck Stop conspires over a smoking blend of Bluegrass, Honky Tonk, Western Swing, and whatever else finds itself inhaled and manifested by way of a wood box and steel wire...Years of digesting so much of the Country Blues lexicon and traveling the country learning the numerous styles of fiddlers, writers, and travelers alike has led to the original music that comes by way of Joe’s Truck Stop. The songs are stories of living on the road, love, temptation, heartbreak, grandmas, banjo pickin' tobacco spittin' women, gas station sushi, and much more... JTS has released a handful of self recorded demos and three studio albums, the Free Showers EP (2014), American Dreams (2018), and, Yonderings, released in April 2022 to much critical acclaim. "Yonderings reflects a singular style spun from down-home celebration — earnest, engaging and rooted in actual folk tradition." - Bluegrass Today A year after that release, Joe's Truck Stop was invited by Arnold's Restuarant in Cincinnati and Maker's Mark to collaborate on a live album recorded in front of an audience at Arnold's. This release is only available on vinyl and is called "Truck Stop Honky Tonk." It is available at Arnold's as well as record stores around Cincinnati. In 2025, Joe's Truck Stop released The Magnolia Sessions with Anticorp Records as part of their MS series. Recorded in 2023, it highlights Joe and a few of his close friends playing through songs of his, old and new, as well as classics by Woody Guthrie and Ola Belle Reed. These were recorded outdoors in Nashville TN. More on The Magnolia Sessions: "I enjoyed this album immensely...As a part of my eclectic and unbalanced musical diet, The Magnolia Sessions are vital. Recommended." - Flying Fiddle Sticks "It all simply falls in the right place here, you do get a feel that these four guys are jamming, beautifully, at a remote truck stop.Browse all performers