Okie guitar slinger Joe Mack performs across the state

Okie guitar slinger Joe Mack performs across the state

Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Joe Mack will perform all over the panhandle state this week, including an 8 p.m. show at Iguana Cafe in Tahlequah on Thursday, March 20; a 9 p.m. concert with special guests Tech Tonic at Sauced in Oklahoma City on Friday, March 21 and an extra special solo performance at 8 p.m. at Joseppi’s Italian Kitchen in Stillwater on Saturday, March 22.

The 28-year-old Oklahoma native is a musician's musician. His interests in sound perked at age five when he started singing in the church. And it was his voice that took him to study music at Oklahoma State University and to places faraway in Europe, though nowadays Joe is known for his outlandish guitar playing, real-time phrase sampling and good ole Okie demeanor that has charmed audiences from Eugene, Oregon to Savannah, Georgia, and at major festivals like The Great Unknown (2003), SXSW (2004) and Zoe Jam (2005). Most recently, Mack won the 2007 Red Dirt Harvest Festival’s Singer/Songwriter Open-Mic Competition at the Grape Ranch Winery in Okemah, Oklahoma against 35 other song slingers in Woody Guthrie’s hometown.

The round mound of sound has also shared bills and stages with some of the top talent from across the state and nation, including Ryan Adams, Tim Reynolds, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Drew Emmitt & Vince Herman (formerly of Leftover Salmon,) the Mike Hosty Duo, The Burtschi Brothers, Randy Crouch, Split Lip Rayfield, Umphrey's McGee, Carter Sampson, Speakeasy and the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey.

He's currently playing guitar and singing backup vocals in singer/songwriter Bill Erickson's latest project, The New Migrant Workers, and performing as many solo gigs per month as his beautiful wife and animal family will let him. Mack is also in the process of co-producing his first full blown studio album with Travis Linville, which is set for release in the fall of 2008.

For more information and to keep tabs on this bad mamma-jamma, logon to www.myspace.com/joemackmusic.