Joe is a proud, 9th generation Texan, and has been a professional guitarist for almost 40 years. Starting out his musical life in San Antonio, Texas as a drummer all the way through college, guitar decidedly became his weapon of choice after being fired as the drummer and then rehired, as the lead guitarist when the band he was playing with heard him play guitar one night, during a rehearsal break. His fate was then secured.
After touring with show-bands in the 70's and 80's, he landed up back in Houston where he met Pat when he started playing with the band “Mason Dixon”. This led to countless studio sessions at Mickey Gilley's studio and started a musical association and friendship with Pat that exists to this day.
In 1991, after a 3-year stint in Nashville, working as a freelance musician and working for Gibson Guitars, Joe moved back to Texas to start a family and to play with Pat's band, “The Franchise”. By 1995, Digital recording became a welcomed reality for this home studio enthusiast, and Randy Miller became his “go to” recording Guru. So now, the circuit was complete.
Being a very quick study, Joe tracked and co-produced Pat's CD- “Life Stories”, played all of the guitars, and programmed the drums and percussion. In addition to contributing electric guitars to WORLD5, Joe is producing Frank Martin Gilligan, and performs as a single artist in Southeast Texas