Joey Gilmore

b. Joshua Gilmore, c. 1947, Ocala, Florida, USA. After teaching himself to play guitar at an early age, Gilmore began performing in public with a small band of like-minded youths. At first, he played and sang in church, his repertoire largely religious music, but gradually incorporated secular music and thus widened his audience although he and his band's club dates were usually in establishments they were too young to legally enter. In the 60s, Gilmore moved to the southern end of his home state where he became a popular figure on the local blues scene and was often called...