Hokie Joint

The Way It Goes ……. Sometimes

Cool Buzz

I am fortunate to receive many new CDs to listen to and many are played once and then join a pile to listen to again later. Sadly many on that pile do not get played again! By contrast, a CD that has been an almost permanent fixture in my player is this, the debut offering by Hokie Joint and very exciting it is too!

Hokie Joint is an Essex based band formed in very late 2007 which brings together two very talented young men in their early 20s, Jojo Burgess on vocals and Joel Fisk on guitar and bvs with three equally talented not so young men, top harmonica player Giles King and a rhythm section that has played together since they first met at a jam more than twenty years ago at the birth of what was to become the notorious Booze’n’Blooze, Fergie Fulton and Stephen ‘Cupsey’ Cutmore. The result is stunning!

The CD contains all original material bar one re-arrangement of a Charley Patton number and is a joy to listen to whether it is for Giles’ great harmonica, Jojo’s gravelly, smoky vocals, Joel’s gloriously dirty guitar or Fergie’s intriguing bass lines or Cupsey’s fine drumming. Fresh, raw yet rich, this is a superb debut from a band that surely has a great future. Search Hokie Joint on Google for loads of clips and help yourself to a slice of ‘Chocolate Cake’! Superb!  

January 2009