Joshua Sanders
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Singer/guitarist/songwriter Josh Sanders has a background in jazz and blues guitar (electric and acoustic) & bluegrass (acoustic), and performs regularly around NYC, the Hudson Valley and Jersey Shore. Josh was a recent guest on the highly regarded "Tennessee Border Show" on NYC's WKCR in March of this year, and Josh’s music has received radio airplay on Americana/country radio (WICR 88.7 in Indianapolis) as well as internet radio (Terry Ann McClean's Bluegrass Mix, www.bluegrassmix.com). Josh's music page is at sonicbids.com/joshuasanders; additional videos can be found at youtube.com/joshuasandersmusic. Josh has been playing solo last 5 years but is assembling a band as of this moment, and has recently begun working with fiddler extraordinaire Liv Wagner.
Joshua Sanders’ songwriting shows the influences of his two longtime heroes, Bruce Springsteen and the late Townes van Zandt. Though a native of New York City, he became corrupted driving cross country on his way to college in California when he heard local bands covering “Take Me Back to Tulsa, I’m Too Young to Marry” and “Mama Don’t Let Your Babies Grow up to be Cowboys”. A summer spent in Santa Barbara and listening to country bands covering Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash tunes at the now defunct Sportsman Bar sealed the deal. Josh’s teachers have included singing coaches/voice instructors Susan Anders in Los Angeles and Janie Barnett and Joy Askew in New York. He studied guitar in Los Angeles with Gary Mandell of Boulevard Music and in New York with Glenn Alexander, Matt Smith and Robin Greenstein.
