Joe Woodard – Wedding Album (On this Day)

Joe Woodard's "Wedding Album (On this Day)" is an EP consisting of instrumental guitar pieces by Woodard, as played at the wedding of Claire Woodard and her betrothed John Pemberton, on June 21, 2022 at Greens in San Francisco. For the occasion Claire asked if Joe might play pieces from his large book of what he called his "pleasant, noodly" guitar instrumentals at the event. As a summer project with a cause, Woodard recorded these numbers, on which folk nuzzles up to jazz colors and other flavors, at Would-Be Studio.
The title tune "On this Day" (heard here in both instrumental and vocal versions) was played while the father guided the bride to the ceremonial destiny of a couple destined to be conjoined connubially. Salutations to the happy couple, on that day and into the wild blue future.

Woodard is still in the sentence construction business by day, but also avidly plugs away at various original music projects. He released a solo album, Goleta Electric, in April, 2022 (which introduced the EP’s song “Freedom in Kentfield,” in vocal clothes). Generally, he prefers to fold into group settings, such as Headless Household, flapping, Flapping, Lucinda Lane, Tableaux Sonique and more to come. (More to Come is not a bandname, although, hm…)