Joke Productions is Born

I'm really excited. A lot of great things have happened since my last post. About a week before the new year I went to Bill's Blues to check out my friend Paul Nebenzahl's monthly jazz jam. I walked in the door and immediately saw my old partner in crime Mike Miner sitting there waiting to go up on stage and sing. We had lost touch so it was great to see him. Mike and I go way back to middle school and played in two groups. The Urban Crisis from 1972 to 1975 and a group named Pinch in the early 80's. Urban Crisis was a full blown funk band and Mike was the lead singer. Pinch was also a funk band that did a lot of originals. For those who don't know, Michael AKA D.Miner is the greatest vocalist I have ever worked with. We talked and then I played a tape of a song I was working on called "Joel - Go Home Now". I gave him a copy and we decided to hook up the next Saturday. When we got together Mike had finished the verses and we recorded a demo in my home studio. We continued to get together once a week and then in mid January we went into EV Productions to record the first 4 songs of our album. We have been collaborating on new songs since then. It's amazing how well we work together and how great our rapport is. Here is the info on the upcoming CD:
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D. Miner and Joelee Project

The first 4 songs from the long awaited reunion of vocalist/songwriter extraordinaire Michael D. Miner and drummer/songwriter Joelee long time musical partners. Soon to be mixed and released to the world as part of their debut album.

1. I'm Sure You'll Know*
2. Joel - Go Home Now **
3. Tonite
4. Running Away ***

All songs © 2006 Joel E. Erenberg and Michael D. Miner - Joke Publishing Co.
* Synthesizer part Michael E. Anderson
** Backround vocals on Joel - Go Home - Stacy Rene Erenberg
*** Backround vocals on Running Away - John Nance, Guitar - John Nance and Willie Shields, Bass Steve Flugum
-lead vocals by Michael D. Miner all other instrumentation by Joelee

Produced by Joelee
Running Away also Produced by John Nance
Recorded at EV Studios - Evanston Il. 1/15/2006 ___________________________________________________________________
As soon as I can I will keep you posted on the release date of the CD. I will also be working on a secure way to let people hear the songs. Grammys 2007 her we come.