Northern Leadership
The NORTHERN LEADERSHIP began in a southern Ontario town full of blues bars and factory workers. Amidst a happening of alternative music scene and a plethora of vintage guitars, Brother Josef (vocals, guitar) called on a few of his pals from the areas other bands to jam. His idea was simple, don’t just play the music, but create the music, explode the music, play it from your soul music, like the MC5 did, count-it-in and play.
Call it improv, call it blues, jazz or art rock. Call it about variations on a theme, the early theme songs were by the likes of Lightnin Hopkins, Buddy Guy, Eddie Hazel along with healthy doses of Rocket From the Tombs, Mudhoney and Metallica thrown in.
They played the blues bars, the country bars, frat parties and the alternative clubs, all the while forging and morphing their sound into what it is today, unadulterated, pure American-style rock n roll. Sloan once told the LEADERSHIP that they have got some serious soul. The Deadly Snakes asked, “where the hell did you guys come from?” and the Matadors sighted them as their main competition.
Brother Joe is the song-writer of the group and when he’s not jamming with
the guys he usually likes to just play guitar by himself or go to shows and heckle guitar players for not soloing enough. Bro. Joe wrote the songs but the whole band puts a little bit of their rock n’ roll heart n’ soul into them each time they play them, creating truly inspired versions every time. It’s an old cliché but the proof is really in the pudding with the NORTHERN LEADERSHIP. Just listen to the music and you’ll get the idea.
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