JoLeigh (Joyce Leigh Bowden) – Moon Caravan Records

JoLeigh first came to NYC to attend the Drama Division at Juilliard, and finding it intolerable, she quit after her first year there. When she returned to New York and stumbled by grace upon Arthur Russell, everything started to make sense again. Arthur was still in his Flying Hearts period at the time. Arthur began having JoLeigh improvise vocals on many songs, including: ‘Tell You Today’, ‘It’s a Boy’, ‘The Letter’, ‘Over the Line’, My Tiger’ , ‘Keeping Up’, ‘Sunshine Lover’, ‘Losing My Taste for the Nightlife’, Mr. Problems’, ‘It’s a Turn On’, and ‘Don’t Forget About Me’. On tour with Jerry Harrison and the Casual Gods she met Joey Ramone and they ended up becoming a really good friends so when they returned to New York, they had fun singing together in Joey’s side group he called The Resistance. Later JoLeigh added vocals to David Byrne‘s “Uh Oh” album , and the Tom Tom Club’s “Dark Sneak Love action.” In 1995, she helped found and went on to perform with Raleigh NC’s Milagro Saints. Her current band is Bear 54 which was the band Arthur’s Landing started out to be. She added melodic intent and vocals to Peter Zummo’s recent ‘Dress Code’ album.

She is pulling together material for a 2023 release on Moon Caravan Records. Her last solo release ‘Jolei’ was produced by Rick Lassiter from the Goodnight Graces.