Alternative Blues/ Delta Rock
Also visit our Myspace page at: www.myspace.com/joemcmurrian

New release - Live at the White Eagle
Available now at CDBABY.com
Recorded over a two month period of weekly gigs at the Famous White Eagle Saloon in Portland Oregon 2008. JMQ stretches the boundaries of traditional Roots/Delta Blues music and gives new meaning to the word live improvisational performance.
To listen to tracks, visit the: Listen page
or to purchase : CDBABY.COM

* JMQ has been included on an amazing collection of Northwest musicians called Fire Water. This compilation represents the finest Blues/Roots music swimming in Portland. JMQ recorded a re-arranged version of the classic Bukka White tune Shake Em on Down. Sample the tracks and purchase the cd here: FIREWATER CD

View photos from the Recording session here:
FIREWATER PHOTOS

"FIREWATER! is not just a CD, not just a project, but a manifesto – a thesis nailed to a door to announce the beginning of a new era.... A new generation of blues musicians have planted a flag ...announced they have established a capital city from where they will set out to change the world..."
Bob Horn, Washington Blues Society


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JMQ Live at the Portland Waterfront Blues Festival 2008
more photos from the show on the Photo page
Photography by Andrew Walsh

The Joe McMurrian Quartet is made up of David lipkind on harmonica, Jimi Bott on Drums and Jason Honl on bass.
JMQ have been rapidly gainingrecognition across the Great Northwest and world with their intense, deeply progressive high energy music. Gut renching emotion and energy transitioning to graceful melodies, complex harmonies and challenging meter chages make for some of the most powerfull Roots/Blues music around.The sound is rooted in Delta Blues and Old American Roots music, but it is weaved into a modern concept of improvisation and original story telling that owes as much to the old as towards the new.


Photo Andrew Walsh
Joe                                David                                          Jason                          Jimi

Video -Live at the Aladdin Theater, Portland Oregon 2008
- while on tour with the legendary Johnny Winter

 

 

"A new form of Blues. A fusion of the Delta and their own haunted visions. In a way, when performing live they're like a classic jam band that can take a song and it's theme on for great lengths, never getting boring in the process.But what ever they are, they're extremely innovative with a sound completelytheir own....This quartet should be viewed as sculptors, or painters. They're creating a new demension of the blues within our dreams...exhilerating and mind-enchanting...a very new and very exciting vision of the blues.."  
Cascade Blues Association, Portland Oregon 2008

     


  • NEWS!:
    Congratulations to JMQ drummer extraordinaire Jimi Bott for being nominated best drummer 9th year running!! by the International Blues Foundation of Memphis. Way to go again and again Jimi!
  • JMQJMQ nominated for Best new band by the Cascade Blues Association of Oregon. This is a big honor- thanks CBA!

    February - JMQ on tour with the legendary Johnny Winter - Oregon and Washington

 


         
Random shots from the Mock Crest Tavern in Portland Oregon 2007

    

   

   


At the Showbox in Seattle 2008 on tour with Johnny Winter

 

                            
Joe endorses Martin, Guild and G.D Armstrong Guitars

  


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Some recent venues Joe has performed at:

Conner Byrnes, Seattle
Showbox , Seattle Washington 
Aladdin Theater, Portland Oregon
Axe and Fiddle, Cottage Grove OR.
Upstage, Port townsend Washington
The Spar, Tacohma WA
DownEast, Homer, Alaska
Salmon Bake, Denali Alaska
Mile High, Talkeetna, Alaska
Portland Waterfront Blues Festival 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007  Portland OR
Portland Brewers Festival   Portland, OR
Genghis Cohen   Hollywood, CA
Highland Grounds  Hollywood, CA
Voodoo Room  Astoria, OR
The Blue Cafe   Long Beach CA
McCabes   Santa Monica, CA
Hayden Island Old Time Festival   Portland, OR
Lefty’s Blues   Salem, OR
Melody Ballroom   Portland, OR
Pickathon  Portland, OR
Pasadena Playhouse   Pasadena, CA
Imbibe  Portland, OR
The Unurban Cafe Santa Monica, CA
Blue Cafe   Long Beach, CA
String Summit 2002, Hornings Hideout   North Plains, OR
Park City Utah Founders Tile Bluegrass and Folk Festival 2001
Pasadena Blues Festival, CA
Crooked Bar   Hollywood, CA
Alaska -all over
Memphis - Rum Boogy
Astoria Art Center
Aladen Theater, Portland
White Eagle Saloon   Portland, OR



Has appeared with the likes of:

Johnny Winter
Charlie Musslewhite
Keb mo
Honey Boy Edwards
John Mayall
Canned Heat
Campbell Brothers
Eddie Kirkland
Sonny Landreth

Paul Geramia
Sonny Landreth
Jack Owens
John McEuen
Marcia Ball
Linda Hornbuckle
Little Charlie and the Nightcats
Steve James
Campbell Brothers
Louisiana Red
Wayne from the Wayniacs

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Friend's in Portland and beyond:


Anne Weiss
Preacher Boy
Dylan Thomas Vance
Jimi Bott
David Lipkind
Paul Livingstone
Hillstomp  
Mark Lemhouse
Mary Flower
Rollie Tussing III
KC Murphy - Thanks KC!
Terry Robb
Spigot
Jonnie Ward
Jon Koonce
John Twist
Racheal Browning
Kenzel and Hyde
Barry Schwam
Barry S #2

Robbie Laws
Rajeev Taranath

 

 

 



 




 

 

 

 

 









 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




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