Major influences are: The Beatles, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Incubus, and The White Stripes.
Awards and accomplishments: performed at the House of Blues, Orlando, won the Songwriters Showcases of America best melodic song of the year award for my song "Perspective", received my first two royalty checks from BMI for radio play of my song "Ice cream", my song "Why" got played on Real Rock 101.1 WJRR Native Noise radio show and was the first track of a Bomtrax records compilation CD featuring the best local original Orlando bands, my song "Dog Eat Dog" received air play during the Philips Files radio show on Real Radio 104.1 Orlando, we were interviewed and performed "Drink a Beer" live on M4radio.com . We have been featured in the Orlando Axis Magazine, the Orlando Connections Magazine, the Orlando Weekly, The Daytona Beach Backstage Pass Magazine, and the Daytona News Journal. We performed at a USA Songwriting Competition South Florida Showcase at the Bamboo Room. I have been performing my original music live for over 12 years now!
2006: My first studio single, "Why" has been completed and will soon be available for download on itunes- thanks to Aaron Martel of Skyline Music Group - www.skylinemusicgroup.com
2005: "Happy Song", "Why", "Jane Doe", and "Try to Get Along" have been played on internet radio. We were featured in the Daytona Beach Backstage Pass Magazine and performed at their battle of the bands competition. Performed at the Daytona Beachside Live Music Festival, and the Deland Original Music Festival.
2004: performed original music at the Beachside live music festival, Tir Na Nag's Irish pub, the Deland original music festival, and various other venues thoughout central Florida.
2003-04: lead singer/ guitarist for local alternative rock cover band. Performed at Bike week and Biketoberfest as well as The Boothill Saloon and other popular local bars.
2001-03: lead singer/songwriter/guitarist for original alternative rock band. Performed regularly at many popular clubs and festivals throughout central Florida including the Fringe Festival, The Social, Scruffy Murphy's, Dante's, Calico Jacks, Johnny's Rockin Bistro, and the Deland Original Music Festival.
2000-01: lead singer/songwriter/acoustic guitarist in an original rock band. Highlights were our performance at the House of Blues, Orlando, and our live recorded performance at the Lost and Found nightclub.
1995-00: performed original music solo acoustic and continued to write songs. Met my wife when she came to see me perform at a coffee shop in Daytona Beach, 1996.
1991-95: began songwriting, performed at local college open mic nights and was the lead singer for three college rock bands including my first original project, "Mr. Fate" .
The songs on this cd were recorded live from 2001 to 2005.
I have had the privilege to work with many different musicians during this time and so the tracks vary accordingly as well as the upgrading of my own equipment and sound.
Band Members:
Tracks 1-3 (Turned Down Day, 2005)
Josh Sherman - singer, songwriter, guitar
Francisco Vargas - bass guitar, backing vocals
Alan Elam - drums
track 4 (ZEN, 2001)
Josh Sherman
Francisco Vargas
Ned Renz - guitar
David Poole - keyboards
Edwin Rosado - drums
tracks 5-21 (discontent?, 2001-2003)
Josh Sherman
Francisco Vargas
Ryan Fechner - drums
all songs (c) 2005 Joshua V. Sherman, BMI
Alex Bove: songwriter track 21
Gadi Ben-Yehuda: lyrics track 7
Tim Williams: lyrics track 5
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