Album Notes

Crazy Joe and the Mad River Outlaws are:
"Crazy" Joe Tritschler - guitar, vocals | "Punkin'" Pat Lee - drums | "Hep Cat" Matt Duffey - bass

What could posses three guys from Enon, Ohio to play rockabilly music with a smart-assed attitude, crazed rhythm and some of the best guitar solos this side of the Mississippi? Only the rock and roll gods know the answer. But fans of the Stray Cats & Southern Culture on the Skids have made room in their CD collections for one more great band..... Crazy Joe and the Mad River Outlaws.

Crazy Joe and the Mad River Outlaws have come a long way since the late 90's and their days at Greenon High School. Whether opening for the likes of Deke Dickerson and the Ecco-fonics, the Reverend Horton Heat, Mojo Nixon, the Blue Moon Boys, or playing for their old band director's retirement party, you can bet that when the Mad River Outlaws are in town, a swingin' good time can't be far away. In 2003, the band was winner of Dayton's Canal Street Tavern Battle of The Bands contest.

In 2004, ATOM Records released the band's first full length CD: Chopped, Slammed, & Twangin'. The new CD features 12 original songs that span less than 26 minutes from start to finish. But what do expect from a great rockabilly band? Six minute guitar solos? Sappy ballads? This band doesn't need ballads nor a bunch of drawn out songs to make their point. They simply want your butt wigglin' and your feet on the dance floor.

The Dayton Daily News referred to Chopped, Slammed, & Twangin' as "fun stuff and highly recommended for fans of rockabilly and other roots styles. The Mad River Outlaws are known as a live band and they've managed to capture that feeling on these songs."

Crazy Joe and the Mad River Outlaws consists of Crazy Joe, a famous potato cannon engineer, who plays guitar, sings and is sometime referred to as Joe Tritshler, but only when he is working on his PHD in electrical engineering at Wright State University. The Dayton Daily News recently said this about Joe, "Tritshler, a seemingly mild-mannered engineering student, is a smoking guitarist, offering riffs, solos and rhythm parts like he's possessed by the spirits of Charlie Feathers, Gene Vincent and Chet Atkins."

On bass is Hep Cat Matt Duffey, who has been playing bass since he smashed his trumpet trying to crack open walnuts at age 14. And last but not least is Punkin' Pat, or Pat Lee as his birth certificate states, on drums. Just don't upset Punkin' Pat, he is rumored to have shaved the family dog and glued him to a fence when the dog went "number two" on his favorite Johnny Burnette record. But can you blame Pat's response to the sacrilege practiced by this pooch? A Barry Manilow record would have made more sense.

Crazy Joe and the Mad River Outlaws are expanding beyond their Enon, OH roots. The boys have twice played rockabilly festivals in Las Vegas. So what are you waiting for? Check out the Mad River Outlaws today (or the band may hunt you down and give you a wedgie).

For more info, check out: www.madriveroutlaws.com

Booking: (937) 258-2107 shows@madriveroutlaws.com