Joe’s Truck Stop: The Magnolia Sessions
Joe's Truck Stop - photo by Ericka Poore
JOE’S TRUCK STOP: Anti-Corp Music’s The Magnolia Sessions To Release Album By Folk Singer/Songwriter Joe Macheret And Crew November 7th; “Lonesome Midnight Blues” Single And Presaves Posted
Anti-Corp Music’s beloved series The Magnolia Sessions presents a new album from JOE’S TRUCK STOP.
Launched in 2020, The Magnolia Sessions showcases bluegrass, dark country, and folk singer/songwriter acts, recorded live in an intimate outdoor setting by a large magnolia tree at the Anti-Corp/Black Matter Mastering headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee, by owner Dan Emery. The series has delivered albums from the likes of Lost Dog Street Band, The Hill Country Devil, Joe Wunderle, Cooper McBean, The Resonant Rogues, Matt Heckler, Jason Dea West, Johno Leeroy, Cristina Vane, Nick Hans, Casper Allen, Jeff Loops, Angela Autumn, Tyler Hood, Jade Brodie, Douglas Francisco, Ivan McLeod, Austin Stambaugh, and Willi Carlisle, many of which have debuted on the Billboard Bluegrass Charts.
Following three seasons of monthly releases in the series, The Magnolia Sessions had been hibernating from late-Summer 2022 until late 2024 when it sprung back to life with Willi Carlisle’s installment, released to benefit victims of Hurricane Helene. Now, November 2025 sees The Magnolia Sessions delivering two new installments of The Magnolia Sessions, including an album from JOE’S TRUCK STOP.
Hailing from Cincinnati Ohio, JOE’S TRUCK STOP is the musical outlet of songwriter, folk musician, storyteller, traveler, organizer, and generally alright guy, Joe Macheret. His original work is inspired by his weird and eventful life, as well as folk music from around the world, especially that of Appalachia and the Western United States. Having toured as a collaborator with Possessed By Paul James and Matt Heckler, Joe is no stranger to the road and has been immersed in the Folk and Bluegrass world as a former member of both The Tillers and The Northern Kentucky Bluegrass Band.
On their installment of The Magnolia Sessions, Joe Macheret led the charge on guitar and vocals, joined by fellow musicians Stephen "Tebbs" Karney on dobro and backing vocals, Ilya Portnov on harmonica, and Joe Wunderle on guitar and backing vocals.
Macheret reveals, “These sessions were recorded at a pretty tumultuous time in my life. Getting over a vocal cord injury and maneuvering career changes amongst other circumstances had me in a rough spot. I’m ever grateful to my collaborators, Joe Wunderle, Tebbs Karney, and Ilya Portnov, who helped keep the spirits high, and I’m grateful to Dan Emery, who two years later insisted we get these recordings out in the world. These are songs I’ve written from my last fifteen years of songwriting, plus two covers by a couple of my heroes, Ola Belle Reed and Woody Guthrie.”
Dan Emery of Anti-Corp Music and Black Matter Mastering, who conceived and conducts The Magnolia Sessions, states, “We recorded this session twice. The first time we did it, Joe had been just outside the wildfires out west and as a result of all the smoke in the region, his vocals suffered. When we came back and recorded it again, he had recently recovered from another vocal injury but was still working through some issues. It just so happened that when we recorded this second one, I was starting to feel the burnout that was looming from the aggressive schedule of the first two years of The Magnolia Sessions recordings, which caused me to put the project on hiatus. After sitting on these recordings for almost two years, I came back to them and was amazed at how well they sounded. Given Joe’s apprehensiveness about how his voice may have sounded due to his injury, we were all pleasantly surprised at how everything turned out.”
Stream JOE’S TRUCK STOP’s “Lonesome Midnight Blues” now on the Anti-Corp YouTube channel HERE.
JOE’S TRUCK STOP’s The Magnolia Sessions album will be released across all digital platforms by Anti-Corp Music on November 7th. Find presaves HERE and HERE and check out the The Magnolia Sessions Spotify Playlist HERE.
JOE’S TRUCK STOP – The Magnolia Sessions Track Listing:
1. Wishin' On A Star
2. Run Johnny Run
3. Lonesome Midnight Blues
4. One More Night
5. (Don't) Put A Nickel In The Jukebox
6. Midnight On The Ohio
7. Hobo's Lullaby
8. You Don't Tell Me That You Love Me Anymore
Watch for updates on additional installments of The Magnolia Sessions to be issued over the months ahead. For coverage of all Anti-Corp artists, contact dave@earsplitcompound.com.
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Joe's Truck Stop - The Magnolia Sessions
Folk Singer/Songwriter Joe Macheret - photo by Ericka Poore
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