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JOEL WALTER
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Biography
Armed mainly with a guitar and harmonica, Central Ohio-based singer-songwriter Joel Walter examines the core of blue-collar life via portraits of broken souls worn down by hard living and the lost dreams that are often buried within them. His debut full-length album, Heart of Branches, portrays these lost souls unsparingly, illuminating their fractured desperation and frustration yet always celebrating their fiery will to get by and survive.
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Discography
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Joel Walter - Heart of Branches
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'Heart of Branches' comprises a collection of wearily reflective songs written and recorded over the past two years. Bleak, bitter, yet hopeful; Walter's songs have an austerity that you discover via his honest vocal delivery even before you experience it in the songwriting itself. Walter's singing is raspy and unbridled, and the intricate yet uncluttered arrangements on his debut provide the perfect aural setting for them to shine.
Weaving together sounds both classic and modern, the tapestries of voice, guitar, and harmonica, sometimes augmented by mandolin, piano, and Magnus, add luminous musical textures to the power of the songwriting, itself revealed to be sometimes lyrical, sometimes ominous, but always haunting.
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