All tagged Joey Frendo Album Review
Joey Frendo may have commenced his debut full-length album, Bound for Heartache, with a nod to the adage, “you get what you get and you don’t throw no fits,” but no one will be throwing any fits over the project he has delivered. Frendo shows off his mindfulness of collective experiences we all face at one point or another and conveys them in heartfelt lyricism. His vocal delivery is slightly gritty, yet warm and sincere. The album paces through Americana, alt-country and classic honky tonk country music.
Despite every obstacle that has been thrown out, the last year has been busy, yet fruitful for the Tulsa-based artist, Joey Frendo. Not even a global pandemic kept him from making good on becoming a solo artist. Today, the debut EP, Stone Mason’s Son, gets released into the big, bright world for all to discover.
The road to making this EP started in Frendo’s home state of Michigan. He completed this leg of the journey when his new family recently relocated to Tulsa, OK after his wife received a job opportunity they couldn’t pass up. Frendo began his singer-songwriter career in Grand Rapids, MI while fronting an indie rock band from 2014-2019. He was a lyricist and singer for the band; learning the piano during those years and then expanding his instrumentation to the guitar in January of 2020. Frendo says, “learning guitar really has driven my songwriting output since, and allowed me to finally write in a way that is totally representative of myself.”
