"Very quietly and under way too many people's radar, Joel Mabus has spent the past 25 years building one of the most impressive bodies of work spanning both traditional and contemporary folk music," says Sing Out! magazine. By turns, he picks a mountain banjo to accompany an ancient ballad, sings a witty song about modern life, plays a sweet Irish melody on guitar, swings a hot jazz number, and then reaches deep for a soulful expression of values in a troubled world. He tops it all with a fiddle tune or old Carter family song--all skillfully blended into a seamless flow. In 2008 Joel ranked as the fourth most played artist--behind only Eliza Gilkyson, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan--in a national poll of folk radio DJs. He's a Michigan institution with an understated wit and insight that's very charactertistic of our part of the world.