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November 2, 2017 - Jerry Joseph announces release of Weird Blood on Cavity Search Records scheduled for November 17, 2017. Weird Blood is his third album released in as many years with his band the Jackmormons, Steve Drizos on drums and Steven James Wright on bass, and produced by Dave Schools (J Mascis and the Fog, Hard Working Americans, Stockholm Syndrome). Glide Magazine premieres the album opener, 'Sweet Baba Jay', 'reminiscent of Elvis Costello but with more of a defiant punk edge... the song taps into a sort of UK pub rock glory, but with Joseph own unique and vivid storytelling at the helm.'

In 2015, Joseph and the Jackmormons went into TRI Studios with Dave Schools and walked out with 20 songs. Those songs became the albums Istanbul/Fog Of War (10/2015) and By The Time Your Rocket Gets to Mars (4/2016). The plan was to release a third album, an EP, with the remaining three finished songs supplemented by couple of new songs that Joseph would write. The plan went sideways.

I rented a tiny house about a mile from my home so I could write but be home for dinner and kid bedtime. I ended up writing a fistful of songs. It was cold early January but a perfect place to write. Weird stuff was happening in general, one of those weeks where I had my copy of Black Star and David Bowie died.vv When after a week of writing, Joseph arrived at Jackpot Studios, Schools was adamant they record all the new songs. They also recorded a couple written in Scotland, Sweet Baba Jay” and Late Heavy Bombardment” and a few that they€™ve been performing, but had never recorded. The past few years we€'ve been trying to figure out album slots for some of the hundred originals that are part of our live repertoire but have never been recorded, like ˜Wild Wild West™ which has been around since the late 90s,€ remarks Joseph. The tiny house songs became the core of Weird Blood.

When I write in a flurry like that, it's hard to see a thread. It feels more like a purge than a considered attempt at art but in the end I seem to get to stuff that I can't get to when I'm thinking too hard.

So here is the recorded during a massive snow storm at Jackpot Studios€™ record. ˜There was a lot of blood, it was pretty weird,€™ I don't even know where that came from, scribbled on something, and turned into a uncomfortable song.

The prolific writer has released more than 30 records and has a catalog of over 250 original songs and counting. Joseph has always stayed busy on the road, not only touring the US but also far-flung, under-explored locales. In the past couple years he has traveled to war-torn regions to bring supplies and teach and share music.