Arkansas' folk singer songwriter Joe Purdy has currently released twelve albums to date. A regular at The Hotel Café in Los Angeles, Purdy travelled to the UK with Tom McRae in 2006 as part of McRae's Hotel Cafe Tour.

His appearance at the Wireless Festival in Leeds led to a special request from The Who member Pete Townshend and his girlfriend Rachel Fuller to play with them at their acoustic In the Attic Series shows.