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Joe
Price, from Lansing, in northeast Iowa along the Mississippi River,
is a singer/guitarist that specializes in down-home Delta-styled Blues,
played on a steel-bodied resophonic guitar.
Price has shared the stage with legendary performers such as
Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Koko Taylor, Willie Dixon, Homesick
James, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and Clifton Chenier.
Joe
was a member of the legendary Mother Blues Band, led by IBHOF member
Patrick Hazell, and which also included Bo Ramsey at one time.
During Joe's tenure with the group, they won the Peoria-based Prairie
Sun award for Best Rhythm & Blues Band four times between the
years of 1978 to 1982.
Some
of the larger events that Joe has performed at include the Mississippi
Valley Blues Festival, the Court Avenue Blues Festival, and Nitefall On
The River.
He is currently a Trailer Records recording artist, with three
CDs available of very well received, authentic Blues - 25
Below, Requests, and Designated
Driver. - Don
"T-Bone" Erickson FEATURE PHOTO BY JEN TAYLOR
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Joe
Price