About Joe Pernice
You know that study where the laboratory rat gets a bump of cocaine each time it presses the red button? And how the rat in short order “learns” to press the button over and over until his heart explodes like a chocolate covered cherry? Well, I’m the rat, and songwriting is my red button. When I’m sitting with a guitar at my kitchen table or in my basement bike shop/studio and I’m deep into writing a song AND I know I’ve cracked it, it’s a pretty great feeling. I don’t want to get too precious here, but that’s when the song finally exists as its own thing. It’s a simple, (hopefully) functioning little beast still visible from the tarpit from which it emerged.