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If Joe Grushecky had a quarter for every time someone called him a "local hero," he could probably quit his day job as a schoolteacher and finance a new album out of pocket money. In his native Pittsburgh, PA, Grushecky is revered as a rock & roll hero, while nearly anywhere else his name earns the reaction "Who?" Which is a real shame -- as a songwriter of the "heartland rock" school, his best work is every bit as strong as anything Bruce Springsteen or John Mellencamp has to offer, and h   [ read more ]

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For better than a quarter-century, first as a major-label artist leading the Iron City Houserockers and later recording for various indie labels, Pittsburgh's Joe Grushecky has struggled to get his hard-rocking, blue-collar style of music heard above the din of fleeting trends, boy bands, and pop divas. The gravel-voiced songwriter has suffered the inevitable Springsteen comparisons, survived bad record deals, played hundreds of shows in dive bars, and, with his first true solo album, {^Fingerpr   [ read more ]

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Joe Grushecky writes like a regular guy for a good reason -- he is one. While Grushecky has had a long career in rock & roll, including a brief flirtation with the major labels as frontman for the Iron City Houserockers, these days he earns his living as a schoolteacher and makes music on the side, which is doubtless why when he writes about the lives of working stiffs and ordinary Joes, the songs bear the ring of truth rather than a sense of condescension. A Good Life is Grushecky's tenth   [ read more ]

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If there were a lick of justice in this wicked world -- and everyone knows that there is none -- Joe Grushecky would be revered as an elder statesmen of rock & roll rather than as one of the genre's most obscure cult band leaders. The Houserockers should be facing the twilight of their musical careers with walls covered in platinum records and mucho dinero in the bank. In spite of the commercial and corporate indifference that he's faced during the past two decades, Grushecky remains one of {\ro   [ read more ]

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