- exerpts from the liner notes by Robin Dale Ford

I heard the "buzz" about Joe shortly after he arrived in Alaskain 1976 as a very young, but accomplishedmusician. Then I heard him playing in his brother George Page's band, Turkeys in the Straw at the Howling Dog Saloon in Fairbanks and immediately understood what the "buzz" was about. He already had a special style and soon took the music community to a higher level. Two years later I was honored to join Joe in the second edition of the popular Page brothers' band, Tanana Grass. But it was in 1982 that I first heard Joe's own music when I joined Joe, his brother George, Dave Ratliff, and Michael "Sparky" Gray in the Rhythm Romancers.

Joe refers to the 90's as his "Bluegrass Decade" dividing his stage time between his band Mando Commando,burning up the stage year after year at the Alaska Folk Festival in Juneau, and playing to packed houses aroundAlaska and Canada with guitarist, Carl Hoffman in Northern River. ... Anchorage bluegrass lovers also know Joe from his role in Fault Line, the group that introduced him to long-time musical friends Joel Kadarauch and Greg Booth. This later morphed into Anchorage's seminal bluegrass band Rank Strangers, an Alaskan bluegrass supergroup if there ever was one.

The creation of Joe's new album, Alaska Mando, is already stirring up commotion in the acoustic music scene not just in Anchorage, but all over the state. With his superb original material and his exceptionally capable new band, Joe has positioned himself to take the Alaskan bluegrass scene by storm. ... Joe already has the reputation as a stellar mandolin player in Alaska's hottest bluegrass bands. With his new CD, they'll discover the culmination of over three decades of musical creations by one of Alaska's greatest songwriters.