Joseph Hazelwood

Kentucky-born Joe Hazelwood got struck by lightning in 2001--an incident that prompted a personal awakening and his subsequent move to Nashville.  Before that, his sound was what you might expect from a Gen. X baby who was brought home from the hospital to a mobile home.  But after the lightning strike, his music took on a kind of unusual tone.   His family and friends worried about him when he released Radio Noise in 2007, and folks thought he was on drugs when he put out The Golden Age in 2010.  Both albums invoked themes of "old weird America" that Hazelwood—a small-town electrician and self-taught musician—shouldn’t know anything about. Flash forward to 2018, and Joe Hazelwood seems to have reconciled his experimental aspirations with his Kentucky roots.  Hazelwood Teardown--a live video recording of 3 original songs--his first music release in 8 years--will be released online October 1st.