This was a good studio session. The point of my work is to play as much as I can to perfect what I do. I am not only very proud of my work but I feel like this is what I need to share with the world in order to bring to the listener a sense of peace and maybe some happiness in some way or form. I really do not know. I am posting this on 4/17/2026 and cannot seem to position myself in the world of performing for the public. I do try with trying to sell my skill set with my Ocean Joe’s Piano card which has the scan code for access to my Bandcamp site and to my sample page. I visit bars and other venues, present myself, leave my card with the boss person and on my Bandcamp site I can see that “someone”, “sometimes” pings in but they do not respond or follow through to engage me. I seem to have hit a brick wall with an un-scalable face. Leaves me thinking that I am fooling myself. How far do I go to keep believing in myself, believing in my music. I guess I go here, on 4/10/26 with one of my last studio sessions recorded and saved for the Empty.

File below is the opening riff…a hello to the stale world of reality from the flow of Joey O.

The second ‘entry’ is a gem….the progressions here were created spontaneously and without a rehearsal…as of 4/17 I have not developed this but the segments suggest a unique sequence of changes. Named for the piano great Bill Evans only because I mention listening to him while at work. His style of play is so far above mine that anything names by me for him is a stretch but because this is new and represents how I can present an interior dialogue of my own, I can allow myself the reference.

Third entry is an old song of mine, “If I Had a Dollar.” Lyrics are here on this separate page I’ve created just for the lyrics of my material. Eventually I will have all of it here on this site.

Another Ocean Joe’s Piano creation…a practice version but not a bad version of “Take It Downtown Blues”. Lyrics here as well.

The final song of the night is one written last year, one of the better tunes I’ve done silly because of the tight lyrics. Not a word wasted is the songwriter’s mantra and I think I carry that with pride in this little tune, “When Spring to Summer Falls.”

The complete studio session is below…it was edited only to take out the mumbling I render into the mic, mostly lamenting the situations besetting me in Life….I have not separated out the last song of the night which is included here in the long form. This is “Sweetheart Like You”, the Dylan tune that I did not play the complete song with all the verses. One of my Go To pieces but the night did not give me the energy. Still, a sample of that is included below.