STUDIO JOE
Coffeeshop
Recording Studio   

Way of Life
600 Autumn, Little Rock, AR 72211
[ shares the parking lot with Sports Authority ]
501.224.3400
Hours of operation: 6 - 10 p.m.
Open Mic SessionsTuesday & Wednesday*; 

Friday , Saturday, or sometimesThursday if there is a show booked.

* Wednesday Open Mic is sometimes pre-empted;  see below for What's Happening

view from street Studio Joe is located a block off Chenal Parkway, west of I-430.
Your landmark on Chenal is the Barnes & Noble store.
Turn downhill on Autumn Drive. 
Studio Joe is on the far side of the Lifeway Christian Book Store;
gray brick building with a green roof; entrance is around the back.
 view from rear

Studio Joe on MySpace

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White Knights, Inc.
a novel
by Studio Joe's own
Rob Barrow


RADIO JOE

Saturdays, 8 p.m. on KUAR-FM89.1

Featuring performances recorded live at Studio Joe


Located at 600 Autumn in West Little Rock (right off Chenal Parkway, about a mile west of I-630),

Studio Joe is more than an ordinary coffeeshop.
In addition to serving  food and drink, we also house a recording studio,
and act as a venue for musical acts (many shows are FREE!)
of a wide variety of genres, from acoustic/folk to funk/fusion, all in a unique, relaxed atmosphere.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
STUDIO JOE PRESENTS
is a showcase for both local and touring musicians.
Cover charge varies.
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"Recorded Live at Studio Joe" on KUAR - FM89.1 is part of KUAR's Saturday evening folk music schedule.
The July 4 broadcast will feature
 a sampler of local and touring performers.

 [lf you heard someone on a past broadcast that you really liked, there is a list of who aired when, with links to their  websites when I have them, over here.]
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Susan Gibson  &
The Mark Jungers Band
Tuesday July 7
Pre-empts normal Open Mic that night
 8 p.m. showtime
$10 cover charge
audio samples: Susan;  Band
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The Honey Dew Drops
Wednesday  July 8
8p.m. showtime
$5 cover charge
audio sample here
 Pre-empts normal Open Mic that night
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Damn Bullets
Friday July 10
8 p.m. showtime
$5 cover charge
audio sample here
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Danny Santos
Wednesday, July 15
Pre-empts normal Open Mic that night
7 p.m. showtime
$10.00 cover charge
audio sample here
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Jill Stringham
Saturday July 18
8 p.m. showtime
$5 cover charge
audio sample here
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Amy Garland
Friday, July 24
8 p.m. showtime
$5 cover charge
audio sample here
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Steff Mahan
Friday, July 31
8 p.m. showtime
$10 cover charge
audio sample here
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Little Rock Music Party
Saturday August 8
7:30 p.m. showtime
$8 cover charge
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Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart
Thursday October 22
audio samples here
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 Is there someone you've heard recently who might enjoy playing here?
Tell us about them!

Open Mic Tuesdays & Wednesdays 6 til 10 p.m.
unless there is a concert booked one of those evenings
No cover charge.
contact Mike Nelson about bookings.

Studio Joe is not just a place to make great music and drink great coffee.
The space can be rented for other events too.

Stax Tribute Band
  From the left: Carlos Summers on Trombone; Mike Dollins behind him on Electric guitar; Kirk Ray on drums,
R. David Lewis on sax; Dennis James and Gene Reid on guitars; & Rob Barrow (one of the owners) on bass.
These middle-aged white guys love Stax Records’ soul music so much they threw a
50th Anniversary Party for Stax in August 2007.

Talk to Rob about having your special event here.
Anything from an office holiday party up to a small wedding can be accommodated.
Rob and Dave can recommend musicians if you want live background music.
The basic seating arrangement can handle up to 65 persons with a mix of casual seating and tables-with-chairs.

Rob also knows a good caterer if you don't already have one lined-up.
Coffeeshop
Recording Studio   

Way of Life


Menu
food menu


 Rob and Dave have pooled their family recipes on "how to spice hamburger meat" 
and come up with a very nice burger to underlay the wine and beer.

Anything involving Chili is suspended for the summer, alas.


sample wines


sign closeup

Way of Life

Recording Studio:  

At Studio Joe, we feature fully staffed and equipped professional recording studio facilities and offer extremely competitive hourly and block rates on session time. We also have a veritable stable of world class seasoned musicians to help you fill in the sonic palette. 

While we do have an assortment of outboard recording gear, our Macintosh-driven studio features these systems:

Pro Tools, Logic Pro,  Ableton Live,  Propellerhead Reason,  GarageBand,  Peak Pro,  Soundsoap Pro

Feel free to stop by or call for rates. Our studio engineer, co-owner David Shurgar, will be more than happy to sit down with you and work out a package that best fits your needs.

Way of Life

Way of Life:

Any coffeehouse has great coffee, and most of them have great munchies to go along with it.
NOT all of them have great live music on the side, though.
Rob Barrow designed this place to be a room that is fun to play in, and WOW! did he succeed!
Yr.HumbleWebscribe is old enough to remember Fifties & Sixties coffeehouses, and so is Rob.
 He's got the ambiance nailed, missing-only the cigarette (or more exotic) smoke.

I don't know how much Rob and Dave spent on the microphones used here, but they make everyone sound great!  If your music-group prefers to settle in a circle of chairs and couches, the microphones aren't really necessary, unless you've got something ready enough for prime time that you'd like to have Dave record it.
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White Knights Inc. a novel by Robert J. Barrow, JD, MD.

Maggie Knight is a college student, working in the Astronomy department, comparing pairs of astronomical photos, looking for something that is moving against the background stars. And she finds it. But when she checks other photos of that same part of the sky, and extrapolates the path of the object, she realizes she has just discovered an asteroid which is pretty-well guaranteed to hit the Earth. She takes the data home, where her father-the-engineer Jake agrees with her math. However, between them they can see a way to avert the impact and leave the asteroid parked in an accessible orbit. Her brother Jack works for the U.S. Government, and knows entirely too well that neither his employers nor the Russians could reverse the decline of their space programs anywhere near in time to do any good. However, HE has the connections to know where to get decommissioned spacegoing hardware at scrap-metal prices. So, the Knight family decides to do it themselves.

I LOVE watching a plan come together!

White Knights, Inc. stirs up memories of classic Robert A. Heinlein tales such as Rocket Ship Galileo, The Rolling Stones, and Have Space Suit, Will Travel. Deliberately-so, says Barrow, who grew up reading those kinds of tales, and misses them sorely. So he decided to write one himself.  By me, he has succeeded.

The man who sold the Moon may turn out to have been a piker by comparison, by the time the Knight family gets done.

Now available from Amazon.com

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