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NFO Song: 68 and 1
Produced, Written and Performed by Joseph McNeil
PanaManic Music ASCAP ©2001

While making a living playing different instruments for local bands in Chicago, Singer\Songwriter Joseph McNeil received a phone call from a cousin in Minneapolis asking him to join Sony/Epic recording artist Alexander O’Neal’s
touring band as a guitarist. Although never having been with an international act before, he quickly learned the rigors and joys of being involved in a professional production.

While living in Minneapolis, Joseph also met and began working with one of Prince’s musical protégée’ Tony Le Mans. Joseph and Tony discovered they had similar musical influences as well as writing styles. This led to writing and production collaboration for a Minneapolis based band Joseph subsequently joined called “Pink Cabaret”. With encouragement and influence from Tony, Joseph returned to Chicago to write and record songs for his own project “JOseff s’Aint Joseph.

While in Chicago, Joseph was summoned yet again back to Minneapolis to do three days of recording at Paisley Park studios with the band “Hot Sauce”. This band can be seen briefly in the movie Graffiti Bridge as George Clinton’s backing band. Though asked to appear in the movie, Joseph declined. Back in Chicago, good reviews from music publications and local approval prompted Joseph to put a band together and launch a short tour that was well received.

Joseph’s songs, some of which speak of social and political issues, fuse Blues, Funk and, Rock together while also bridging the musical gap between Baby Boomers and today’s youth. When asked to describe his music, he calls it P.S.R. or, ”Psychedelic Soul Raw’.

College Music Journal however describes it as being reminiscent of sixty’s rockers “Sly and the Family Stone”.

Though Sly and the Family Stone of the sixty’s it may not be, it is JOseff s’Aint Joseph of today!