Joe Wunderle - The Magnolia Sessions (2021)

JOE WUNDERLE is a songwriter and folk country music artist from Ohio. Years of meandering writing and working are reflected in Wunderle’s songwriting. His sound has taken full form by musical collaborations with artists such as Jane Frazier, Tebb’s Karney, Joe Macheret, and David Mayfield. WUNDERLE’s writing evokes natural imagery and stories of hard working, hard traveling, hard luck through a low smoky country blues sound. His poems and tales are decorated with fiddles, steel guitar, yodels, melancholy, and sense of humor that is unique to its brand and true to its roots. His most recent release, Times Are Strange, was recorded live to cassette tape and released in July of 2021.

Upon swapping songs and talking ideas with Benjamin Tod last Winter, WUNDERLE contacted Dan Emery and scheduled a record as part of The Magnolia Sessions and studio time for a new album. After seriously cutting his hand with a hatchet, he put together a seven-piece band of some of his favorite musicians and friends from Ohio to record twenty new songs with Emery, and The Magnolia Sessions.

As a longtime listener of underground music, WUNDERLE has recorded and played bass with death metal bands Embalmer and Madness On The Mountaintop. He toured with Embalmer for almost six years as the bassist. He has played in punk bands and had a country blues duo called The Honey Brown Bandits. He has a since been on the road and writing songs performing under his name and has no plans of slowing down.