“It started with a fatwa, a death threat against aid workers,” he says of his foundation, which teaches music to refugee children. Prior to the pandemic, one might have found him playing at a refugee camp in Syria or teaching at an underground rock school in Kabul, Afghanistan, as part of his nonprofit Nomad Music Foundation. Globe-hopping to write isn’t unusual for Joseph, who recently toured Europe and is now embarking on a quick solo tour with a stop in Denver before returning to Europe next year to open for the Drive-By Truckers, who serve as the backing band on The Beautiful Madness. By the time he ventured into Drive-By Truckers co-founder Patterson Hood’s Mississippi studio, he’d written 35 songs. He also wrote in South Africa and at a friend’s house in Sonoma County, California.
He covers a lot of thematic ground with his dense lyrics on The Beautiful Madness. … I’ve written lots of records down there. “I literally had to write all that with a gun on the table because shit was going off around me. “That’s why the first line of the song 'Days of Heaven' is ‘Back down on this porch singing to myself with my brother’s. He references the scene in the album’s opening track, “Days of Heaven.” Joseph kept a pistol with him while he wrote, at his brother’s insistence. What he describes as a “low intensity war” between established drug cartels and young upstarts who manufacture fentanyl and methamphetamine was unfolding in the distance. Jerry Joseph penned lyrics to his 2020 album The Beautiful Madness at his brother’s house in El Sauzal, a barrio north of Ensenada in Baja California.
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