Joe Russ is a musician, singer and songwriter and Internet Marketer from Richmond, Virginia. In 1988 he moved to Nashville to pursue a career as a songwriter and musician.

He says it took 3 years of rejections before he got his first song published by a real Nashville publishing company. He went on to place songs with Charlie Pride’s Pride Music and Loretta Lynn’s King Cole Music and others. He also says the day he knew he had really learned how to write songs was the day Country Music Superstar George Jones put his song “The Memory’s The Last Thing To Go” on hold for his next recording project.

As a musician he has worked with hit makers Percy Sledge (When A Man Loves A Woman), The Impressions (It’s Alright, People Get Ready), Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose (Treat Her Like A Lady, It’s Too Late To Turn Back Now) and Dennis Yost of Classics Four fame (Stormy, Spooky, Everyday With You Girl).

In 1989 he served as bass player and band leader for Patsy Lynn, daughter of Country Superstar Loretta Lynn and was a featured performer at Loretta Lynn’s Dude Ranch. Patsy recorded two of his original songs, “He Calls Everybody Baby” and “Good Love”, on her first album.

He also shared the stage opening for Molly Hatchet, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Sawyer Brown and Dicky Lee and Ray Stevens on the Grand Old Opry stage in Nashville.

He currently performs with his wife Diane at venues in the Outer Banks of North Carolina where he has lived since 2004, but travels back to Nashville often to pitch new songs and perform at writer’s nights. He and Diane are currently in the process of returning to Nashville permanently.