JOE LaMAY & SHERRI REESE
Macedon, NY
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Always interested in drawing and painting, in 2016, Sherri made it her quest to take up water color painting. Initially she wanted to focus on painting birds but soon realized she needed to develop a background style and that prompted her to work on landscapes and rural scenes. Growing up on a farm in Central New York, and having lived in South Central Kentucky, and now back in Western New York, she has developed a real feel for flora and fauna in rural settings.
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Joe has been a professional graphic designer since 1972. In the 1990's he gained a reputation for CD design and packaging. At one time he was a contract designer for Oasis Duplication.
In 2001, he was asked by Garth Hudson of The Band to work on the design for his first solo CD, The Sea to the North. Joe made several trips down to Woodstock to work with Garth and Maude Hudson on the design, and was invited to the official CD Release Concert at the Bearsville Theater in Bearsville.
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Joe and his youngest brother, Chris, collaborated on producing a film of his song Rust on the Tracks. In 2014 they submitted it to the Autumn Shorts Film Festival in Somerset, KY, where it won Outstanding Music Video. Four years later, in 2018 at the Appalachian Film Festival in Somerset, it won Outstanding Music Video as well as People's Choice for Best Film.
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Joe released his first 12" vinyl album Pressed for Time in 1986 on his fledgling Local Folkel Records label. It was followed in 1988 by Flour City Folk • Late for the Meeting, a compilation of seven Rochester, NY singer/songwriters, and Al Power's first LP, Join the Song.
1n 1988, Al Power joined Joe in the running of Local Folkel. Between 1986 and 1992, seventeen recordings were released by Local Folkel Records. Joe and Al had one goal in mind when they went national with their regional label. That goal was to help singer/songwriters produce albums of their songs and get them played on the radio. In no small part that goal was achieved. Local Folkel Records was a significant stepping stone in the careers of each of the artists represented by the label.
• In 2013, Flour City Folk • Late for the Meeting was released for the first time on CD to mark its 25th anniversary.
• In 2023, LaMay & Reese • Twenty Five Years • 1998-2023, a double CD, was released on Local Folkel Records.
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In August 1969, Joe made the trek from Rochester, NY, to the Woodstock Festival. Along with his then wife, Valorie, and their friend, Kathy Hancock, they arrived on Saturday the 16th, and left on Sunday. the 17th.
Joe was working at Eastman Kodak at the time and rented an 8mm movie camera. Parts of his home movies have been used in TV documentaries, such as NBC Nightline, WGBH American Experience, Smithsonian Channel America in Color, Sly Stone Documentary, Mike Richards Creating Woodstock, John Kane & Bill Hanley Best Seat in the House, and several small high school and college projects.
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In late 2001, Joe was approached by Performing Songwriter magazine for inclusion in an article titled From Design to Duplication of Your CD. He had been recommended by Micah Solomon of Oasis Duplication. Joe talked about his work in the layout and design process and promotion. The article appeared in the December 2001 issue.
In 1942, Sherri's father, George Reese saw a Gibson Southern Jumbo guitar in a music store in Fulton, New York. One year later, while home on leave from boot camp with the US Navy, he purchased the guitar for $96.50. It accompanied him to North Africa, Southern France, Italy, and the Near East.
While in Southern France, a nearby ammo dump was sabotaged, and the plaster ceiling of the farm house, where George was sleeping, crashed down upon him and he was hospitalized on a hospital ship in the Mediterranean Sea.
George’s unit was sent back to Northern Africa while he convalesced aboard ship. His belongings were not forwarded to his unit’s new assignment, but one of his buddies hand carried George’s guitar to ensure it would be waiting for him when he returned to duty. After the war, George and his Gibson returned home and he played it the rest of his life.
In 2009, when George was 84, Joe recorded him picking 22 of his favorite tunes and released the session on the George Reese • 1942 Gibson CD.