Joe worked his way through the early days in the city hardware store, in the freight yards of Virginia, gigging in clubs when he was 14. He grew up on Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, James Brown, Monk and Rollins. The only white kid in a soul band, he toured the South back in the day when that just wasn't done. The group, Wayne and the Exceptions, recorded "Have Faith" which got to "34 with a bullet" its first week on the black AM stations. Then the label pulled it. Depressed and downhearted he...