Album Notes

The Joe Mama Band has been a long time fixture in the upstate New York touring circuit. Exceptional musicianship has been the drawing force in this quartet. The much anticipated second release "Green pepper air freshener" and already garnered favorable press as well as airplay on local stations.

Green Pepper Air Freshener
By Ronda Johannessen (the Chronograph)

What a refuge and journey I am having as the Joe Mama Band takes me home. They are a down home band. They are probably an over-experienced bar band. They are tight, very tight. These are top-notch musicians. They are really too good to be a bar-band (not really, if you've spent time in Austin) It just makes me proud upstate (Queensbury) produces!

This album is an effort of love. The beautiful packaging of the music object is special. "Green Pepper Air Freshener" is presented with humility yet seems to be the work of a lifetime. Impeccably produced, this jam band has recorded exactly what theyhave been dreaming. The songs are by
vocalist/guitarist Phil Camp whom I suspect didn‚t just write but built these songs with the progress of rock and roll and blues and the future in mind.

Bands that have made similar sounds would probably be CSNY or Lindsey Buckingham with funk edge, and vocals that remind me of the artistry of Kip Hanrahan. I really like "Mama's Boy" and "Lady, Beautiful Lady." It ends with a striking, delicate acoustic instrumental "Jackie‚s Song."

Now I am going to drink whiskey, turn it up louder and re-listen for my own pleasure, and everyone will believe I am still working.

Alex Hyatt, music reviewer for the local edition of "Spice" writes...

Joe Mama Drops Bomb

"One of the best regional recordings I've ever heard: Green Pepper Air Freshener, the brand new full-length by Glens Fall area's seminal rockers, The Joe Mama Band, drops next month.

Lead vocalist/guitarist Phil Camp, drummer Jeff Britton, bassist Marty Montana, and keyboardist Mark Orlosky have really outdone themselves. There are nods to blues, funk, rock, ska, and soul throughout this 16-song sophomore salvo. The record contains songs that would fill stadiums ala ELP and Pink Floyd ("Paper Club"), instrumentals to silence savage beasts in the vein of Hot Tuna ("Jackie"), and jammers to rock your face off like the Red Hot Chili Peppers ("Human" and "You Were the Love")...need a little something patriotic? Try JMB's "America" on for size. How about an indie rock cruiser in the class of the Wallflowers? Put the CD in, and find "Lock the Door."

To say JMB is tight is an understatement, and to use the word "chops" would be redundant. The talent and cohesiveness of this quartet shows on Green Pepper Air Freshener, an album that will in my CD player for years to come. It's an incredible sophomore album released by a band in its prime."


We here at the Joe Mama band urge you to grab up a copy. All bases are covered. Rippin' insturmentals a la "Rocket fuel," the ska flavored "Can Man", Acoustic ballad "Lock the door" Blusey moods on "All my love" and "Push under and fall" and the down right trippy "Human" gives the listener a comfy journey through the musical hay ride "Green pepper air freshener" provides. but enough talk, click play and lets get jammin'

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