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Joe Westerlund

Joe Westerlund

Percussionist

Sep 29, 2026

speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
4:13
This track met me at a time when I was just starting to kind of open up
4:24
from a childhood of you know, listening to some punk music and, and arrowing into kind of a jam band territory.
4:51
And, um, this is a safe space.
4:54
So thank you.
4:56
Um, no, I was like deeply into, into fish and Medesky Martin and wood and, um, was just starting to discover things like John Zorn.
5:07
And, um, that actually, that was a world that kind of, uh, somehow was available to us in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
5:16
Uh, and, um, I knew that there was more to discover behind that, behind the avant-garde, the current state of New York downtown avant-garde music.

14 MINS LATER

speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
19:32
I don't want to think no. Um,

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