Top

    

New album SO WIRED

In addition to Eglash Creative Group, a music and design firm, Joe Eglash owns and operates oySongs.com, the leading online source for Jewish music (audio and sheet music downloads). Formerly Managing Director of Transcontinental Music Publications and URJ Press, music/book publishing divisions of the Union for Reform Judaism, he has hundreds of publications to his credit.

He is a recognized authority in the fields of Jewish music and guitar pedagogy, and is a consultant of musical repertoire, marketing, and building congregational instrumental ensembles. His popular T'filah Band songbook series, containing arrangements of liturgical music for synagogue band, was published by Tara Publications.

Raised in a family of folk music enthusiasts in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Joe studied the guitar and saxophone. Before earning his B.A. in Judaic Studies from Brooklyn College, he studied classical guitar with Jeffrey Van at the University of Minnesota, where he formed a band, The Flood.

For years, The Flood toured large college and community venues to capacity crowds, earning a substantial following. They released three popular albums of original music.

In 2009, Joe released his debut solo album, BUILD A FIRE, to unanimously positive reviews. His sophomore effort, SO WIRED, was released in 2011. A one-man band, Joe plays all instruments and records all the vocals on his recordings.

In addition to his Joe Eglash and Eglash Creative Group blogs, he writes a food blog, What You're Not Eating, and collaborates on a cigar blog, The Humidor Putzes. Joe is active as a guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and composer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he resides with his wife and kids. He has happily found himself back in the smoky bar scene as lead guitarist with the Charmers. He is a member of ASCAP and GTM.


WHERE AND HOW DO I RECORD MY ALBUMS?

I built a home studio (which doubles as a music safehaven...) explicitly to record music on my own, at a pace that suits my weird schedule. It gets really tricky when you combine self-engineering and the oddities of studio mojo, since I record and play everything myself, from drums up to vocals and everything in between.

SARS (Small-Ass Room Studio) includes Cubase Studio 5 and a FocusRite Liquid Saffire 56, and my main mic is a Rode NT2-A. Between these three things and some occasional help from engineer buddies and extra mics, I can pretty much put to 'tape' anything that's in my music brain. The Luddites were ass-backwards when it came to embracing technology, hey?

I've long been a believer in outside-looking-in perspective - I live with these recordings for months on end and know every little inch - so for that perspective, I have my stuff (BUILD A FIRE and SO WIRED) mixed (Southwest Studios) and mastered (Stonebridge Mastering) in outside studios. That's been a pretty important angle on my music.