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Artist
Joseph Shipp
12+ albums
indie rockfolkamericanaacousticfolk rock
about
“As I think about the album we created, I can’t help but think about where I was when I wrote all those songs: Alone and scared in an unfamiliar old house—a stranger in a familiar land,” Joseph Shipp says of his new album, Free, for a While, also his debut, out this fall. Shipp is a Renaissance man of sorts, adept at an array of creative fields: a musician, of course; an award-winning graphic designer; an accidental archivist; and a photographer who grew up around his parents’ photography business. After spending six formative years in the Bay Area working in brand design and design strategy, he and his wife—and their dog Sadie—decided to move back east to start a family. Six years later, they are now raising their two sons. Many of the songs on Free, for a While center around this period; a confusing, isolating time for Shipp: the 38-year-old Centerville, Tenn. native had moved back home—or at least to nearby Nashville—after several years in northern California. But, amid a turbulent time in the South, he found nothing really resembled what he had left. “While everything was happening in the world, I was also dealing with a personal upheaval,” Shipp says. “I moved home to be closer to family, but after the death of my grandparents, things were different—both in my family life and in the place I remembered.” A few years before the move home, while still in San Francisco and looking to find a way to celebrate the place and people he knew and loved, he dove into a trove of
