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In a time where young artists are manufactured to suit radio airplay and mainstream profits, genuine songwriters are becoming a rare breed. Joel Harrison, a 25 year old singer/songwriter from regional New South Wales Australia is an artist who blends a vast range of influences including Pop, Surf, Rock and Jazz into songs that describe and invite listeners into the personal moments and emotions of the mature singer songwriter’s life. Joel recalls his musical development “I was drawn towards the guitar by two things, Marty McFly playing Johnny B Goode in Back To The Future and hearing Richie Sambora and Slash play guitar in my sisters music collection”. After a few years of casual guitar playing Joel thought “maybe I can sing as well as playing the guitar.....it’s the next obvious step after you sing other peoples songs, you start to experience life and need a form of expression and release and I found that in my song writing”. Along the way Joel has performed in many different