~Ye Ol' Music Gallery~
Welcome to Ye Ol' Music Gallery! This is where you will find all the available CD's downloads, and other recorded projects of Joey Racano. As a 45-year musician, you can bet there have been several incarnations of the music. Did I say 'Bet'? Well, yes, there was even a time when my band was called the Bets! And of course, you can also 'bet' they found a way to screw it up, like the time we were published in a California music magazine as the 'Beths'. Maybe the writer had a lisp, who knows, right?
We've been The Bets, Ice, Earcrafte, Berkeley Street Burners, Joey & the Trouble Makers, The Tigersharks, the Blues Doctor, and when I was a kid, I was in a group called the 'Jagged Edges'. But whatever you call it, it's my music and I hope you like it!
Photo: Geofry Kagey
We've been The Bets, Ice, Earcrafte, Berkeley Street Burners, Joey & the Trouble Makers, The Tigersharks, the Blues Doctor, and when I was a kid, I was in a group called the 'Jagged Edges'. But whatever you call it, it's my music and I hope you like it!
Photo: Geofry Kagey
Above: 'Medicine Wheel' off the Midnite Medicine Album All guitars, Bass, vocals and cover art by Joe Racano
Below: 'Song for Belle' (instrumental) off the 'Napoletan' album:
Below: 'Rainbow' off the Wild Bird album, 1999
Recorded at Studio 1605, Huntington Beach, California, 1999 on a D88 and mastered with Pro Tools and beyond. Engineered by Marco Forconi, Produced by Reynaldo Macias JR.
Joey Racano.............................All Guitar and Vocals
Dave Blazer.................................................Trumpet
River Blue.................................................Harmonica
Brad Cummings.................................................Bass
Brad Cummings nominated Best Bass Player at 1998 LA Music Awards*
River Blue appears, courtesy Steve Copeland Blues Band*
'Fabric of Society' dedicated to Reynaldo's dad*
All songs written by Joe Racano
Photo above by Mark Savage, (taken at Bolsa Chica Wetlands, California) used courtesy OC Weekly Magazine
Photo below by Joe Racano, (taken at Lake Leon, Texas)
Recorded at Studio 1605, Huntington Beach, California, 1999 on a D88 and mastered with Pro Tools and beyond. Engineered by Marco Forconi, Produced by Reynaldo Macias JR.
Joey Racano.............................All Guitar and Vocals
Dave Blazer.................................................Trumpet
River Blue.................................................Harmonica
Brad Cummings.................................................Bass
Brad Cummings nominated Best Bass Player at 1998 LA Music Awards*
River Blue appears, courtesy Steve Copeland Blues Band*
'Fabric of Society' dedicated to Reynaldo's dad*
All songs written by Joe Racano
Photo above by Mark Savage, (taken at Bolsa Chica Wetlands, California) used courtesy OC Weekly Magazine
Photo below by Joe Racano, (taken at Lake Leon, Texas)
Below: 'Blue Highways' off the Wild Bird album, named for a book by William Least Heat Moon
Joey Racano and The Tigersharks has recently been digitally re-mastered at Sutton Studios in Atascadero, California after languishing on DAT (Digital Audio Tape) for about 20 years! Recorded LIVE! at 5 Points Bar & Grill in Huntington Beach, California, this resurrection comes February 2014, almost 20 years to the day after the show. At 72:02, the CD runs over an hour long and includes some of my best guitar work on 'Hell's Lullabye'
Guitar & Vocals: Joey Racano
Below: 'Time' and 'Playin' it from the Heart'
Live!
Guitar & Vocals: Joey Racano
Below: 'Time' and 'Playin' it from the Heart'
Live!
Barnstorming
Recorded LIVE! acoustic at The Barn in Tustin, California, 1996
Solo acoustic performance, short but sweet on an old Silvertone Guitar.
Features originals and a couple of R&B standards
Joey Racano...........Guitar and Vocal
Recorded LIVE! acoustic at The Barn in Tustin, California, 1996
Solo acoustic performance, short but sweet on an old Silvertone Guitar.
Features originals and a couple of R&B standards
Joey Racano...........Guitar and Vocal
From Brooklyn with Blues
19 songs, LIVE! and studio, digitally remastered from cassette tapes of music originally recorded between February 1983 and 1996, at clubs and studios from Florida to California
Joey Racano....all guitars and lead vocals, most back vocals
Featured Bass players...Ray Gordon, Tom Kuespert, Chuck Ugalde, Ken Wells
Featured Drummers...Mike Sciarrino, Ken McDonald, Jeff Davison
Not the best recording quality but a must for collectors. Includes the recording, Blues Doctor (scroll down to bottom for video)
Below: 'Seekin' the Sun' Joe Racano Mike Sciarrino Chuck Ugalde
Guitar LD/Voc Drums Bass BK/Voc
19 songs, LIVE! and studio, digitally remastered from cassette tapes of music originally recorded between February 1983 and 1996, at clubs and studios from Florida to California
Joey Racano....all guitars and lead vocals, most back vocals
Featured Bass players...Ray Gordon, Tom Kuespert, Chuck Ugalde, Ken Wells
Featured Drummers...Mike Sciarrino, Ken McDonald, Jeff Davison
Not the best recording quality but a must for collectors. Includes the recording, Blues Doctor (scroll down to bottom for video)
Below: 'Seekin' the Sun' Joe Racano Mike Sciarrino Chuck Ugalde
Guitar LD/Voc Drums Bass BK/Voc
Below: 'Last Night' off the 'ICE- Out from the Permafrost' CD Recorded 1983- mixed and mastered 2018 at Sutton Studios, Atascadero
5th Street Alley
A collection of analog recordings from a 1994 recording project featuring raw bass, guitar and vocals by Joey Racano. Another raw but very collectable CD. Also features SPIKE the crow on backup vocals on woodstock!
A collection of analog recordings from a 1994 recording project featuring raw bass, guitar and vocals by Joey Racano. Another raw but very collectable CD. Also features SPIKE the crow on backup vocals on woodstock!
The Neapolitan
The only true RAP album by Joey Racano, recorded at Lupine Song Studio, Morro Bay & Los Osos, California between 2007-2012. This is a powerful CD not for the squeamish. Italiano, New Yawk, Rap and screaming guitars. A must.
Guitar..................................................................................................................Joey Racano
Lead Vocals.........................................................................................................Joey Racano
Bass.......................................................Joey Racano, James Edward Theobald and BR1600
Backing Vocals........Heather Sheridan, Adam Flood, Sandra Brazil, Daisy the Dog, Vinnie Navoa and others
The only true RAP album by Joey Racano, recorded at Lupine Song Studio, Morro Bay & Los Osos, California between 2007-2012. This is a powerful CD not for the squeamish. Italiano, New Yawk, Rap and screaming guitars. A must.
Guitar..................................................................................................................Joey Racano
Lead Vocals.........................................................................................................Joey Racano
Bass.......................................................Joey Racano, James Edward Theobald and BR1600
Backing Vocals........Heather Sheridan, Adam Flood, Sandra Brazil, Daisy the Dog, Vinnie Navoa and others
Legend of the Los Osos Kidd
The latest CD, featuring, among other things, the best bass work I've ever done. Solid, mainstream rock and roll.
Joey Racano.........................................................................................all guitar, bass and vocals
Djembe on Shadows through Time by...............................................Tim 'above the rim' Costa
Engineered by Frank Ring jr
Produced by Sandra Brazil
Cover photo of joey opening for Bonnie Raitt, Bolsa Chica State Beach, Sept 21st 1996
The latest CD, featuring, among other things, the best bass work I've ever done. Solid, mainstream rock and roll.
Joey Racano.........................................................................................all guitar, bass and vocals
Djembe on Shadows through Time by...............................................Tim 'above the rim' Costa
Engineered by Frank Ring jr
Produced by Sandra Brazil
Cover photo of joey opening for Bonnie Raitt, Bolsa Chica State Beach, Sept 21st 1996
Bluejay
Recorded at Studio 1605, Huntington Beach, California, 2001, during the 'Full Moon' sessions and ably engineered by Marco Forconi. Like it says on the CD cover, 'this album contains no overdubs'.
Produced by Reynaldo Macias jr, this is my biggest selling CD, featuring only guitar and vocals, and only performed at the same time, LIVE! in studio, during four trips in, all of which, we later noticed, were on a full moon! Note: The song, 'Marylee Weatherbee's Gut String' was indeed performed on Marylee's gut string guitar! All songs written by Joey Racano except 'Line Hauler's Blues (Ken King) and Stranger (Doc Watson). Music on both songs by joey racano. If you get one CD of mine and like it mellow, this is the one.
Artwork by Darrell Bloom at Mind Meld*
Below: All Life Long, from the Bluejay Album...
Recorded at Studio 1605, Huntington Beach, California, 2001, during the 'Full Moon' sessions and ably engineered by Marco Forconi. Like it says on the CD cover, 'this album contains no overdubs'.
Produced by Reynaldo Macias jr, this is my biggest selling CD, featuring only guitar and vocals, and only performed at the same time, LIVE! in studio, during four trips in, all of which, we later noticed, were on a full moon! Note: The song, 'Marylee Weatherbee's Gut String' was indeed performed on Marylee's gut string guitar! All songs written by Joey Racano except 'Line Hauler's Blues (Ken King) and Stranger (Doc Watson). Music on both songs by joey racano. If you get one CD of mine and like it mellow, this is the one.
Artwork by Darrell Bloom at Mind Meld*
Below: All Life Long, from the Bluejay Album...
Below: 'Line Hauler's Blues' from the Bluejay Album... and what exactly is a 'line hauler'? That is an over-the-road trucker. And my buddy Ken King set out on the road for an outfit called 'Covenant Transport' to seek the meaning of life. Wherever he roamed, he would send me post cards with jots and bits of lyrics. When he finally came home for Christmas that year (1998) I had written those post cards into this song, the Line Haulers Blues. Words by Ken King, Music by Joe Racano. Ken later took to driving a taxi to again seek meaning, but was killed by a drunk driver. R,I.P.
Check out this archival footage of Joey Racano as The Blues Doctor, filmed in South Florida under the Banyan Tree out front of the Old Fort Meyers Courthouse. First band in the United States to ever play on the steps of a Federal Courthouse! This clip aired in Hayward, California on the GNU VIDEO SHOW, 1988...