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Donnie and Joe Emerson

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Years active
  
1978-present

Active from
  
1979

Active until
  
1979

Genres
  
Pop music, Rock music

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Origin
  
Fruitland, Washington, United States

Labels
  
Light in the Attic Records Enterprise & Co.

Record label
  
Light in the Attic Records

Albums
  
Dreamin' Wild, Still Dreamin' Wild: The Lost Recordings 1979-81

Similar
  
Ariel Pink, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Dâm‑Funk, Sunny D Levine, Karen Dalton

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Donnie and Joe Emerson are an American vocal and instrumental duo consisting of brothers Donnie Emerson and Joe Emerson.

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Living on a family farm in rural Fruitland, Washington, in the late 1970s, the brothers' father, Don Emerson Sr., encouraged his teenage sons' musical interest as they began writing and playing their own music. Don Sr. built his sons a state-of-the-art $100,000 recording studio and in it they self-produced and self-released their first album "Dreamin' Wild" in 1979, an eclectic mix of rock, soul, R&B, country and funk music, on their own Enterprise & Co. label.

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The record had no commercial success until 2008 when record collector Jack Fleischer discovered the record in an antique shop in Spokane, Washington. Fleisher began to evangelize it. In July 2012 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti covered the song "Baby" and in the same year Light in the Attic Records re-released "Dreamin' Wild" with "Baby" becoming an underground hit.

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In the 18 months the Emerson brothers spent in their farm studio they wrote and recorded around 70 songs. As a result, they followed up the reissue of "Dreamin' Wild" with the 2014 release "Still Dreamin' Wild: The Lost Recordings 1979-81".

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Discography

  • Dreamin' Wild (1979, 2012 reissue)
  • Still Dreamin' Wild: The Lost Recordings 1979-81 (2014)

  • Songs

    BabyDreamin' Wild · 1979
    Dream Full of DreamsDreamin' Wild · 1979
    Feels Like the SunDreamin' Wild · 1979

    References

    Donnie and Joe Emerson Wikipedia