Josh Joplin Group and Josh Joplin

Time Out London calls Joplin's live show “…a must-see.”

The Bur Oak… Come for the coffee in the morning and come back for Josh Joplin Group in the evening. Sunday, October 18th. Josh’ll be returning to Mad-Town, fresh from the studio where he will just be finishing up the 15th album of his career. What could that mean for him in 2027 when it’s released? A quick Google search of numerology suggests it may be an enchanting, even seductive record, chock-full of songs “resounding with creative composite vibrations that bring about transmuted works of emotional intensity…” Who knows! But unlike NUMBER 6 and NUMBER 13, which are both real trash numbers, Number 15 symbolizes taking chances — which we suggest means throwing caution to the wind and seeing a live show on a Sunday night.

Joplin has earned critical praise from Spin, Time Out NY/London, American Songwriter, Paste, Magnet, Vanity Fair, and NPR, to name a few. His song “Blue Skies Again,” recorded by Jessica Lea Mayfield, has been downloaded over a million times, while his 2001 radio hit “Camera One” has perennially found new audiences from fans of Scrubs as a featured song in Season 1, and Brennan’s Market shoppers who discover it wandering the aisles in search of a decent fruit butter and some pricy crackers to argue about.

Legendary artist manager Russell Carter (Matthew Sweet, Indigo Girls) says of Josh Joplin: “I am willing to bet Josh has written a bad song, but I can tell you I have never heard one.”