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Singer/songwriter/producer Joe Barksdale describes his musical path as beginning with “gospel, rap, soul, and R&B, the four major food groups for black, inner-city Detroit.” With a style fueled by an eclectic genre mix, influences included Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye, Sly and the Family Stone, Teddy Pendergrass, and Kanye West. His unique sound smoothly blends aspects from blues, soul, jazz, rock, and more, creating an immersive experience at once both upbeat and up-close-and-personal — a captivating world spreading a message of love and unity, harmoniously uniting people through music.
All of this is greatly captured on his last single “Alone,” which we are pleased to premiere the video today. The video interchanges intimate, close-up scenes from Joe that feels rather intimate with a few footage that highlights many of the song’s themes.
About the song, Joe comments “Human beings want to be understood. It’s hard to be understood when you live in a world that wasn’t built for you. Being larger than average, Black in America, mentally ill, and Autistic means that I live in a world that was not built for me and that’s a lonely realization to make. So I wrote this song for people that know what that loneliness feels like. We have all felt that loneliness in one way or another and this song is acknowledging that lonely place that no one wants to talk about.”
