Joe Greshecky – HuffPost 10.18.13

Mike Ragogna: Hey Mr. Joe, what’s your advice for new artists?

Joe Greshecky: Advice for new artists? It depends on what you want to be. You want to be a pop star? You should aspire to be on American Idol or The Voice. If you want to be a musician, you learn how to play your instrument and you play as much as you can and you do the best work that you can and in my case, you try to stick around as long as you can. I thought I made it when I put the first record out with the Iron City Houserocker. That was a dream come true. Everything else is icing on the cake. I would like to have one identifiable song that people know more widely so I can hang up the old six-string.

MR: I feel like since the mediums and the platforms for music have changed so drastically, there’s probably more of a shot for you now.

JG: It leveled the playing field a bit. You don’t have to have a record company now. I’m being distributed by Warner Brothers these days and I’m just checking on some of it today. I’m on Amazon, I’m on iTunes, stuff that I’ve tried to do myself through the years, so that has its advantage. We’re able to place music to get shipped and I’ve had a few interviews and all of this feels pretty good. I’ve been able to do it simply because I’ve been able to stick around long enough. Because of the changing scene, I’ve been able to work on my own and keep my chops up and work and write and record and all of that stuff.