Album Notes

Mandolinist Joe Walsh plays with some of the best acoustic acts in New England, teaches a full roster of guitar and mandolin students near his home in Portland, Maine, dodges questions about the Eagles' guitar player, and is continually searching for the perfect burrito. Originally from Minnesota, he moved to the northeast to enroll at the Berklee college of Music in Boston, MA, as the school's first mandolin student (and graduate). After his arrival out east he helped start the modern string band Joy Kills Sorrow and joined two of the finest bluegrass-based acts around in Northern Lights and the New England Bluegrass Band. These days Joe splits his playing time between the Gibson Brothers and Scott Nygaard

Joe's first solo record "Saturday Night Waltz" features many of the finest acoustic musicians in New England, including fiddle players Mike Barnett, Tashina and Tristan Clarridge, guitar players Matt Arcara, Flynn Cohen and Lincoln Meyers, banjo player Wes Corbett, dobro player Roger Williams, cellist Natalie Haas, bass players Karl Doty and Ashleigh Caudill, as well as vocals by Ben Demerath and Maya Lerman. With one foot in the past and one in the present, Saturday Night Waltz is an exciting snapshot of the extremely fertile and creative bluegrass scene that is blossoming in and around Boston.


"Fabulous mandolinist. The Sam Bush of Boylston Street"--Matt Glaser, Chair of the String Department at the Berklee College of Music