Joel Timothy, a first-rate talent with a gift for crafting songs that touch the heart, stir the soul, and sometimes even make the listener laugh out loud, has been writing and performing music for over 30 years.

Born in Nebraska, Joel and his family moved to England when he was two years old. After several years abroad, the family returned to the States, and lived for a while in a small mountain town in Northern California. By the mid-1960s, however, as a teenager responding to the inexorable call of music, Joel found himself settled in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco - one of hottest music scenes in the world, and the perfect place for a young musician to start absorbing inspiration. Here, with neighbors - and friends - like Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead and many other artists from the era, Joel learned from some of music’s most powerfully talented mentors.

In the 1970s, Joel began performing as a street singer in San Francisco, but quickly “graduated” from the street to become a popular artist on the West Coast folk circuit, expanding his territory by touring throughout the U.S. After many years on the road, Joel returned to San Francisco where, from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, he began composing music for film, T.V., radio and theatre. It was during this time that he married artist Karen Boone. Soon after, a son, Ian, followed, and the family moved to Karen’s hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. From here, Joel began performing throughout the region, including many appearances at Nashville’s legendary Bluebird Cafe.

Joel Timothy’s new CD, “Broken Cage,” produced by Vince Emmett, is a studio record filled with explosive radio-friendly tracks. With pre-release reviews for “Broken Cage” already sounding off with high praise for the album, Joel Timothy will soon be back out on the road performing throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe.