As you might imagine, Epilepsy Awareness Month is close to our hearts here at Joey’s Song. Fighting epilepsy through music is our aim and increasing awareness and understanding about epilepsy is crucial in reaching our goal. This month, we’re asking for all hands on deck. There are so many things you can do to help us help the Epilepsy Foundation in their fight against seizure disorders. Here are five ideas to get you started: 1. Make a pledge to our Kickstarter campaign. Our goal is to raise $7,500 by December 16. In fact, if we don’t raise that much by Read More

We’re thrilled to welcome a new member to the Joey’s Song family – Mark Bryan! Mark is a founding member and lead guitarist with Hootie and The Blowfish and an accomplished solo artist in his own right. He also runs Chucktown Music Group, an artist management, production and consultancy group, and teaches the ins and outs of the music biz to College of Charleston students. A packed schedule indeed, and we’re excited he added Joey’s Song to his to-do list. Thank you, Mark! Swing by Mark Bryan’s website and the home page of Chucktown Music Group to check out some Read More

Ever wondered how something like Joey’s Song goes from idea to nice, spiffy CD (or download)? The specifics of the album release process can vary from label to label, especially between independent (indie) and major labels, but the general idea is the same. You need the songs, you need some manufacturing (if you’re going to have physical product, anyway) and you need some kind of distribution. If you want people to know about the release, you need some kind of promotion, too. Joey’s Song is a series of compilation releases, which work a little differently than ye olde standard single Read More

We are stunned, awed, amazed, and humbled at the response to our barely two day old Kickstarter campaign to raise money to cover the production costs for Joey’s Song. Thanks to you all, we’ve come out of the gate strong, with 26 backers already making a pledge (and earning some pretty cool prizes while doing so). We wanted to take a moment out to let everyone know how much your involvement means, and we can’t wait to make good on our promise of awesome music for an awesome cause. Our aim with Joey’s Song is to deliver as much money Read More

Welcome to the new Joey’s Song blog! Over the coming months, we’ll use these pages to keep you up to date on all of the breaking news about the Joey’s Song project and give you some insight into the musicians who are generously pitching in to make this project a reality. But wait – what is Joey’s Song? We’re glad you asked. Joey’s Song is a series of CD releases launched by the Joseph Gomoll Foundation to raise money for the The Epilepsy Foundation. The Foundation – and the albums – were created in memory of Joseph Gomoll. Joey passed Read More