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Joe First is a songwriter now living in Nashville, Tennessee. His
love of songwriting is expressed through his stage persona, Jose Primero, the artist name used on his three solo CD
releases:
"Portraits In The Sand: Songs From
Pass-a-Grille" (2004)
“Native By Conception” (2005)
“Arte Es Vida” (2007)
Recording original music since 1981, Joe has been involved with
several original music projects including the bands "Us" and
"The Pell-Mells" in Gainesville,
"Black Hat Tribe" and most recently, "The No-see-ums"
in the Tampa Bay area.
While working as a music teacher in both Alachua and Pinellas County public
schools, Joe has produced four albums featuring his students -- the first,
a vinyl recording in 1982. Up until 2001 Joe had been writing mostly in
children's genres. A
move to the beach opened up his songwriting, and is reflected
in the albums. He also began
traveling to many cities all over America playing
his new songs and found a new love of traveling and meeting people while
performing his music.
Retiring from public school teaching in 2007, Joe decided to
move to Nashville where
he had found a place of many kindred spirits with the same love of
songwriting. Still playing his
music at singer songwriter venues, he has also joined two bands. You can see him with The
Thunderheads every Friday from 9:00-11:00
P.M. at Bobby’s Idle Hour, 1025
16th Ave. S. on
Music Row. For other places he’ll
be playing please check the Gigs page.
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