Joel Gildersleeve has been playing guitar for 15 years, and writing songs for the last 10. His lyrics often tackle deep topics with musical precision and reveal raw, heartfelt emotion, always with original, infectious melodies that stem from his vast musical influences ranging from rock, hip-hop, african and jamaican musical styles. Joel's original compositions have been winning the hearts of all those that hear them for the last seven years, and he has collaborated with many Bay Area Producers, Musicians, and Rappers over the last 10 ten years, blending the lines between acoustic rock, hip-hop and reggae.
Joel Gildersleeve has written the words and melodies for over 80 songs, not including any of the numerous Reggae, Hip-Hop and Funk collaborations he has done with other Bay Area Musical Talents over the years. Of these 80, Joel considers around 30 to be potential HIT SONGS,
Joel performs regularly in the Bay Area with his band, Insight Sound System

philosophy of music and life

Music, a force that runs through all humans, in as many styles as there are musicians/singers on this earth, for each person has their own true style, which no one can replicate. This being the case, still the factors that lead to truely moving songcraft are left to be explored. When songs are created truely from the heart, plus executed with skill, they have a tendency to move people and become a part of their permanant song collection. Such artists as these often display mastery of one or more elements in their total sound or songs, such as vocal ability and/or musicianship. Within the musical spectrum, some artists sing about topics of life and the world that have a powerful effect and influence on their fans....Such musicians ( Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, ) Joel Gildersleeve is such an artist. Get ready for the songbook hits from J.G on BroadJam, cd, the internet, music videos, etc...Joel is in the process of blowin this concious acoustic rock sh-- off the handle, one house stereo or ipod at a time...