After performing around Los Angeles and picking up a great deal of local attention, Purdy released StompinGrounds in 2003. The album grabbed the attention of the local L. A. music scene, but it was the songs on his next two albums that would reach the ears of a national audience. Julie Blue was written and recorded in one week in 2004 during a vacation in upstate New York and along with Only Four Seasons, the albums' simultaneous release showcases the two extremes of his music.

To date, ABC has aired five of Purdy's songs on its hit shows Lost and Grey's Anatomy In October 2004, Lost featured Wash Away (Reprise) from Julie Blue. The song made iTunes' Top 10 in the singer/songwriter category, and Julie Blue was the number 1 selling album on CDBaby.com and listed on iTunes' Top 20. Grey's Anatomy featured Purdy's songs I Love the Rain the Most, The City, Far Away Blues and Suitcase. The City was also included on the Grey's Anatomy Original Soundtrack released in September.

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Joe Purdy- Only Four Seasons

Tracklisting:

1. The City
2. Cinderella & The A Train
3. Look At You Now
4. Why Do I
5. Andrea
6. Laughing Man
7. Meteor City
8. Why You
9. Suitcase
10. Come Back Down Joe
11. Falling Down

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Joe Purdy- Julie Blue

Tracklisting:

1. Wash Away
2. Skinny Dippin Girl
3. Mary
4. St. Lawrence Spits
5. Far Away Blues
6. Riverboat Captain
7. Whiskey and Fish
8. Abbie's Song
9. I Love the Rain the Most
10. Julie Blue
11. Wash Away (reprise)

Sunday 26th November- Life Cafe, Manchester (0161 832 1111)
Monday 27th November- Trinity, Bristol (0117 929 9008)
Tuesday 28th November- Islington Academy, London (0870 771 2000)
Wednesday 29th November- Rescue Rooms, Nottingham (0871 310 0000)

Friday 1st December- Academy 2, Newcastle (0870 771 2000)
Saturday 2nd December- King Tuts, Glasgow (0870 169 1000)
Sunday 3rd December- Cockpit, Leeds (0113 245 5570)
Monday 4th December- Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh (0131 226 7010)
Tuesday 5th December- Barfly, Birmingham (0870 907 0999)
Thursday 7th December- Kings College, London (0870 380 0017)

Lost episode 3 season 1 featuring Wash Away from Julie Blue

LA Times- 21st September 2006

As it is with a lot of good singer-songwriters, Joe Purdy lives wherever his songs take him, wherever he finds inspiration. "Traveling feeds it, living feeds it, and traveling feeds living, "the 26-year-old says in a lilt that reveals his roots in the Hickory Creek area of Arkansas. "Whenever you stop for a minute, you make a record."

That's not too outlandish a hyperbole -- Purdy, who's been based in L.A. the past six years, has churned out albums as often as some guys change T-shirts. He has recorded collections of his serene, bluegrass-tinged meditations in six locales (a couple have yet to be released), in a manner many artists would regard as rushed. Many sessions are low-fi, one-take affairs, but Purdy believes songs should be of the moment.

"Sometimes I'll write a song in the morning and show it to the band in the afternoon," he says. "We'll play it twice and then hit 'record.' When you nail it that first time, it's better than love."

Immediacy, after all, yields maximum emotional effect. On July 5, 2005, his first day ever in New York City, Purdy wrote "The City," the leadoff track on his new album, "Only Four Seasons," and a song that earned a spot on the soundtrack to the television show "Grey's Anatomy."

Purdy was no overnight success upon moving to L.A. He slogged through the assortment of day jobs -- handing out pamphlets, being a personal assistant, shooting photographs, painting houses -- until "I met a girl who turned me upside down and I sat down at a piano," he says. "It was my way of sorting through it.... Saves me the trip to the therapist's office."

He found an audience for his musings at the Hotel Cafe, the Hollywood singer-songwriter haven. "I was lucky I found a niche of people with the Hotel crew that feel like a family," he says. "I remember when I did my first record release show, they asked me if I could [draw] 30 people. I said I thought I could... but for some reason a hundred people showed up. From then on, things were looking up."

Purdy will join the likes of Cary Brothers, Joshua Radin and Brett Dennen on select dates of the upcoming Hotel Cafe Tour. But his band won't be surprised if the songwriter pulls them into a studio somewhere for a recording session. "I've figured out that I have more fun if I just get the feel rather than try for production quality," Purdy says. "When we recorded in London you could hear more drums on the vocal mike than you can the vocals. But it's human, it's genuine."

For more information contact Cat Gahan on 01273 623 117 or cat@empathyrecords.co.uk