Houston Joost
- Sound Description:
- Simple pictures of moments that matter even when you never realized they did. Two words of isolation three chords of hope. Personal descr...
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Founded 1971, based in Dallas, TX
No upcoming shows.
A battle-scarred veteran of Dick Chaplain's Cotillion, he has salted the southern music scene much like Sherman did shortly after Walt Whitman's first pressing of Leaves of Grass. Joost spent his formative years peanut farming in Blackvile, SC, where he honed his guitar skills, moonshine drinking and subsisting on government cheese before moving to the fertile music scene of Athens, GA.
There, in Athens, the young hayseed, still barefooted, got a tattoo on his back, which quotes Leadbelly's anthem: "Land of the brave, home of the free; Ain't gonna be mistreated by no bourgeoise," in classic gangsta script.
Currently fleeing plagiarism charges in The Netherlands after trying to pass off Guy Clark's "Dublin Blues" as original work ... but the girl got some anyway. Joost is, however, filming a series of commercials for Taco Cabana's European expansion.
Huge in Lichtenstein.
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Simple pictures of moments that matter even when you never realized they did. Two words of isolation three chords of hope. Personal descriptions of America falling and rising. Open and raw and simple like big block chevy engines.
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one of the unhearded hearld genuis of our time. If you can find TPHS v. 1,4,9 it will set you mind free. It is a shame of what happened to Houston in Holland. I knew him then and the Dutch police were on a witch hunt. I hear he is now in Portland playing gigs there and working on a record deal with a Disney subsidary.
You are my best lover and friend, Houston, Lekker Ding!
pugeez Anonymous
3 years, 10 months ago
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Apparently Houston is no longer seeking a record deal. He was in Orlando meeting with record representatives from Disney at the famous Walt Disney World Epcot Resort when his life changed. Houston found out that he had won the lottery by using his system of picking the numbers he found on the back of a fortune-cookie. Upon learning that he was now a millionaire, Houston proclaimed "This really is the happiest place on earth". No longer in need of a major record deal, Houston Joost can play music for the sheer artistic thrill it brings him. Play on Houston, play on!!
Alan Cohen Staff
3 years, 10 months ago
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I did not know what genius was until I heard Houston Joost play. How he does it does not make sense. When you hear Joost play and sing your mind says, "this not good, and this is not right" but somehow it becomes perfection. Joost has taken the ugly, the mistreated, the disfranchised parts of music and blended to make a stark clear vision of sensiblity that touches your soul. Truely an unknown genius.
Jesus_mexican_style Anonymous
3 years, 10 months ago
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