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“Not only does Joe write music that strikes a chord in all people, but he does it with simple lyrics that share a certain starkness that Hemingway had as a fiction writer and Kerouac had as a chronicle of a generation of ‘nonconformists and contrarians,’ which is how Joe characterizes himself.”
— Don Wilcock, The Record, June 10, 2010