I Cried - Joe Medwick
Born in the northern New York bordertown of Watertown just a half hour from Ontario Canada, Joe Medwick was touched by music at the earliest of ages. "I swear I remember my mom playing piano when she was pregnant with me, especially that left hand... that's probably why I ended up being a drummer." His middle class home on Michigan Avenue was full of music day and night during his youth. His older brothers and sister filled the place with the likes of Elvis, The Everly Brothers, Miles Davis, Hendrix, Bob Dylan and Gordon Lightfoot. His piano playing mom meanwhile leaned more toward the likes of Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Nat King Cole mostly on Canadian radio stations. " I loved everything my mom and brothers and sister liked but I really was transformed by the voice of Ray Charles. I remember the first time I heard him, I was maybe 9 or 10, it just killed me...so much soul, so much emotion." Joe's first band The Baskerville Hounds were a "semi-big...