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Joe Francis Doerr (born November 15, 1961) is an American,
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-based singer-songwriter and poet.


Career

A native of
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, Doerr moved to
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in 1983 to join
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, a roots-rock band formed by Mike Buck, Don Leady, Alex Napier, and Doerr's older brother Steve. Doerr, whose spirited performing style caught the attention of "The Dean of American Rock Critics"
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, appeared on several records with The LeRoi Brothers including the
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12" EP ''Forget About the Danger...Think of the Fun''. Doerr also toured extensively with the band throughout Europe and the US and gave a memorable performance on Austin City Limits before leaving the group in 1986 to pursue other interests. In 2005, Doerr rejoined The LeRoi Brothers and has continued to perform with the band to the present. In March 2014, Doerr and the other LeRoi Brothers band members were inducted into the Austin Music Hall of Fame. In 1986, Doerr formed the alternative band Ballad Shambles with long-time collaborator and guitarist Bill Anderson (formerly of The Meat Purveyors), bassist Michael Maye (with whom Doerr appears on the Grammy-nominated " Big Guitars from Texas" in the album credits among those providing "yells, special effects, insanity, hoopla and bat-craziness"), and drummer Stan Moore (formerly of
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). The band released one studio EP with Skyclad Records. When Ballad Shambles disbanded in 1988, Doerr and Anderson formed Hand of Glory with bassist Tim Swingle and drummer Mike Navarro. Hand of Glory released two studio LPs and a single, "Like a Nightmare," recorded live in Berlin on the Skyclad label before disbanding in 1992. Exhausted by incessant touring, Doerr became temporarily disillusioned with the music scene; he returned to academe, having dropped out of St. Louis University in 1982. He graduated from
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in 1995 with a BA in English and entered graduate school at
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in 1996. Doerr earned three degrees in seven years at Notre Dame: an MFA (Creative Writing, Poetry), an MA (English), and a Ph.D. (English). In 2003, he returned to Austin where he now resides with his wife
Mary
Doerr is the author of 2016's collection of poetry and lyrics ''Tocayo: New & Selected Poems & Songs'', ''Order of the Ordinary'', (a well-received collection of poems published by
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), and the editor of the ''Salt Companion to John Matthias'', a favorably reviewed collection of essays on Matthias's later work. Doerr's literary criticism, reviews, and articles have appeared in a number of publications, including ''The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century'', in which Doerr writes extensively on John Ashberry,
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, and the
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movement in American poetry. In addition to his reputation as a scholar of American poetry, Doerr has achieved international (primarily British) literary renown (see, for example, his work in Poetry Nation Review and Stand). In recent years, various anthologists have chosen to include Doerr's work in memorable collections such as ''The Open Light: Poets from Notre Dame, 1991–2008'', and ''The Possibility of Language: Seven New Poets''. Since 2006, Doerr has taught writing at
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in Austin. In 2007, Doerr began collaborating again with
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. Together with Julien Peterson (drums), Adam Kahan (bass), and Billysteve Korpi (guitar), Anderson and Doerr formed the poetry-driven, alternative blues-rock band Churchwood, a project to which Doerr contributes by writing music and lyrics, and providing vocal performances. Churchwood signed with the San Antonio, Texas-based Saustex Media label in 2010 and to date has released six LPs, an EP, and a strictly limited edition two-song 45 "Wacky Souvenir" on the Saustex label. In 2011, Churchwood placed "Rimbaud Diddley" (lyrics in French by Doerr) on
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, Episode 4 ("Una Venta") of AMC's "Sons of Anarchy."


Discography

*LeRoi Brothersâ
Forget About the Danger
(Columbia, 1984) *LeRoi Brothersâ
Lucky, Lucky Me
(Profile, 1985) *LeRoi Brothersâ
Fight Fire with Fire
(Profile, 1985) *LeRoi Brothersâ
Protection from Enemies
(Demon Records, 1985) *LeRoi Brothersâ
The LeRoi Brothers
(New Rose, 1985) *Trash, Twang, and Thunderâ
Big Guitars from Texas
(Jungle Records, 1985) *Ballad Shamblesâ
Ballad Shambles
(Skyclad, 1988) *Ballad Shambles—20 Detectives Later: July ’88 Sampler for NMS 9 (Skyclad, 1988) *Hand of Gloryâ
Far From Kith & Kin
(Skyclad, 1989) *Hand of Gloryâ
Spank the Nun
A Devil's Dozen from Skyclad (Skyclad, 1990) *Hand of Gloryâ
Like a Nightmare
Live from Berlin (Skyclad, 1990) *Hand of Gloryâ
Here Be Serpents
(Skyclad, 1991) *Churchwoodâ
Churchwood
(Saustex, 2011) *Churchwoodâ
Just the Two of Us
(Saustex, 2012) *Churchwoodâ
Sample This: Saustex 2012 Sampler
(Saustex, 2012) *Churchwoodâ
2
(Saustex, 2013) *Churchwoodâ
The Saustex Variations
(Saustex, 2014) *Churchwoodâ
3: Trickgnosis
(Saustex, 2014) *Churchwoodâ
Hex City
(Saustex, 2016) *Churchwoodâ
Plenty Wrong To Go Awry
(Saustex, 2020) *Churchwoodâ
6: The Boule Oui
(Saustex, 2022) *Churchwoodâ
Johns 2:22
(Saustex, 2023)


Bibliography

*Doerr, Joe.
Tocayo
'. Bristol, UK: Shearsman Books, 2016. *Doerr, Joe Francis.
The Salt Companion to John Matthias
'. Cambridge: Salt, 2011. *Doerr, Joe Francis.
Order of the Ordinary
'. Cambridge: Salt, 2003.


References


Works cited

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External links


Shearsman Books Author Page: Joe Doerr
" Bristol: Shearsman Books, n.d.
Salt Author Profile: Joe Francis Doerr
" Cambridge: Salt, n.d.

" Lake Forest: Samizdat. December 5, 2007, by Robert Archambeau
Discography
Portland: Discogs, n.d.
The Leroi Brothers
on the CBS Morning News with
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. New York: CBS. August 1984. * List of University of Notre Dame Alumni. {{DEFAULTSORT:Doerr, Joe 1961 births Living people American male poets The LeRoi Brothers members 21st-century American poets 21st-century American male writers