Joe Flood and Band

Joe Flood Bio

Joe Flood is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in New Haven, Connecticut. His songs have been recorded by The Band, The Bottle Rockets, Joan Osborne, and Laura Cantrell among many others. He has performed and recorded with many of the great names in American roots music including Blues Traveler, Madeleine Peyroux, Eric Andersen, Rick Danko, Greg Trooper, Happy and Artie Traum, Dr. John-–and the list goes on. His performances draw on his deep. repertoire of original songs that speak to the present while aiming for the timeless, interspersed with stories of his experiences as a busker in the U.S. and abroad, a. journeyman songwriter and studio musician, and his scholarship on the history of. American folk and popular song. He has released several albums of his own material as well as translations of the great French chansonnier Georges Brassens and an album of songs by three 19th. century songwriters from his hometown of Middletown, Connecticut. Two new. albums featuring 26 new songs and contributions from 38 musicians from around. the world were released simultaneously in June of 2026: Park Walk Bike Bus Trainand Fables, Fibs, and Foibles.

“..songs bursting with eccentric characters…a voice that perfectly straddles the. fence between country and the blues. –Karen Schoemer, The New York Times