Joe Minger

Mathew Warnock of Guitar World Magazine had the following to say about Joe Minger and his solo album Monroe County. “With a lifetime spent playing music, over 40 years in total, guitarist, vocalist, harmonica player and songwriter Joe Minger has brought his extended musical experience to his latest record Monroe County.  Minger’s years of practicing, writing and performing breathe through his well-written songs, creative arrangements and high level of musicality.  Never over playing or moving too far away from the original compositional intent of any song, Minger brings a heightened sense of songwriting, catchy melodies and interesting lyrics to this record, the result being an enjoyable musical experience, one based in the American musical tradition.”

Rino Iacovella of CHEAPO.it - Music Web Magazine had the following to say. “The crystalline talent flows through the guitar chords and harmonica, very convincing in “The First Time I Saw his Face”, “This Kind of Life”, and the amazing electric ballad “Beneath the Streets”; the harmonica sounds continually ebb and flow in the grooves of stories that are hazy but real as in “Walking”. The rhythm seems to overflow; instead it’s the words that come flooding in, sometimes dark and impenetrable, as described in “This Kind of Life” and “Dreamer’s Prayer”. The guitar shows its American roots in another pearl like the title track “Monroe County”, and in “Twenty Years”, Joe reasons on small town concepts in ideologically exquisite terms, adding balance and equilibrium with his guitar in “Overnight Sensation” and “Bristol.”

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