josh@packwayhandle.com

Josh began playing the guitar in 1992, finding himself attracted to the sound of bluegrass through the influence of his friends and family. After playing bluegrass with both his dad and his friends, he decided to focus on it as his main musical genre. Using the guitar styles he had learned from playing in rock and folk bands in the past, he melded a newer knowledge of flat-picking guitar to his previous repertoire of rhythm and lead playing to make his own style of bluegrass playing. This unique style of incorporating alternative melody and tonal qualities of the song's structure during his playing has been one of his trademarks that characterizes his sound. In turn, this also offers his signature in the band's inimitable overall blend.

Josh plays a Crafters of Tennessee Rosewood Dreadnaught guitar and Heatwave's Martin D-18. He currently uses medium gage GHS Bright Bronze strings.