City Winery NYC (The Loft)

City Winery NYC (The Loft), 25 11th Avenue, New York, NY

Josh Joplin Group Time Out London calls Josh Joplin's show “ ...a must-see.” If last year’s sold out show is any indication, order your tickets immediately for Josh Joplin Group's return to City Winery, NYC Saturday, October 3rd at 7pm. Josh’'ll be 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 is a classy integer, symbolizing the finer things in life — like, you guessed it, the pinnacle of distinction, City Winery! Mmm, now that’s Mont Blanc! 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 shoppers who discover it wandering the cramped aisles of Zabars, too hungry to make healthy decisions and ready to pop off at the next person who hits them with their basket. 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.” Joplin’s latest full-length release, GpYr — produced by Josh Joplin and Grammy-winning producer Lorenzo Wolff (known for his work on Taylor Swift’s Midnights and Folklore) — lands somewhere between a concept album and a sonic scrapbook. Geoffrey Himes (Washington Post/Paste) says of it, “I think it’s Joplin’s best work.” Spin called it “a collection of pop-infused gems that captures the raw energy of Joplin’s earlier works... but with the musical and lyrical layers of the older, wiser musician Joplin has become.”