Joe Cannon (Resurrectionists)

Today’s guest makes me want to read more dictionaries; but old, slang ones. He’s Joe Cannon from Resurrectionists. Joe comes from a family that isn’t exactly musically inclined, although his dad DID play a mean steering wheel. Joe didn’t start pursuing music seriously until he went to Notre Dame in South Bend. At that point he REALLY got into it. He not only played music, but also got national touring acts to come to South Bend to play with his band in their basement.

Music was such a force in him that it caused him to delay his work on a PhD at Northwestern. And what’s really weird is his reading of German writer Thomas Mann inspired pandemic themed lyrics that were written in 2019! It’s kinda spooky. 

He’s a self taught banjo player, a collector of slang dictionaries, tambourine enthusiast, and creator of his own, occasional film festival. That last part is because he decided that Resurrectionists would make a video for all 9 tracks on the new album, Now That We Are All Ghosts. Go to reurrectionistsMKE on YouTube to check out all the videos. Follow the band on Facebook and Instagram. Grab the album from Bandcamp.

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