Joy In Red came together one summer night on an East Durham porch with the meeting of banjo and guitar. The realization came that, “we really need to put some drums behind this”. It was a creation never meant to aspire beyond the celebration of friends shaking the days dust, the gathering of intentions, dreams, aspirations, where like minds shed their frustrations and openly express their convictions, those conversations meant for kind ears and guarded from outside toils.

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