Joe Grushecky

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Joe Grushecky (born 1948 or 1949 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ) is an American musician.

biography

Grushecky and his first band, the Iron City Houserockers , released the album "Love's So Tough" in 1979, which Rolling Stone magazine named "Debut Album of the Year". Since then, his music style has been regularly assigned to mainstream rock. In 1983 the band broke up and Joe Grushecky took a job as a teacher. In the next few years he released only one single before he released a long-playing record in 1989 with "Rock And Real", this time as a solo project, which, like the subsequent production "Swimming With the Sharks", was released by Rounder Records . Grushecky founded a band again and has performed with it since then under the name Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers .

1995 began a long-term collaboration with Bruce Springsteen ; The first published result was the album "American Babylon" in the same year, which was produced by Springsteen and on which he also worked as a guitarist and singer. Grushecky co-wrote the Code Of Silence, which won a Grammy Award for Springsteen in 2005 .

Grushecky is married with a son and a daughter.

Discography (excerpt)

  • 1979: Love's So Tough
  • 1989: Rock and Real
  • 1995: American Babylon
  • 1998: Coming Home
  • 1999: Down The Road Apiece Live
  • 2002: Fingerprints
  • 2006: A Good Life

Note: The list does not differentiate between solo albums and albums with the Iron City Houserockers and others.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Rock's best-kept secret. (No longer available online.) CNN Entertainment, formerly the original ; accessed on May 29, 2012 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / articles.cnn.com  
  2. Jump up ↑ Springsteen, Grushecky Set To Play Soldiers & Sailors Hall. Retrieved May 29, 2012 .
  3. ↑ a b History. www.joegrushecky.ca, accessed on May 29, 2012 (English).

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personal data
SURNAME Grushecky, Joe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1948 or 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh