Joe Hedges is an American rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 singer, songwriter, musician, and visual artist. Hedges spent his high school years in Middletown Ohio

Ohio

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Hedges is best known as the lead singer of the rock band July For Kings

July for Kings

July for Kings, or "JFK", is a Cincinnati, Ohio-based alternative rock band founded by Joe Hedges , Sam Dobrozsi , Travis Delaney , Jason Morgan , and T Miller . The band was forged in Middletown, Ohio, a steel town between Dayton and Cincinnati, in 1997...

 with whom he has released three studio album

Studio album

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In 2007 he released Curvature, his first solo album produced by Blumpy.

In 2010 he released Alchemy, his second album

In addition to his music career, Hedges is a visual artist having shown paintings, photographs, and collages at galleries in the Cincinnati area including the Middletown Arts Center, Kennedy Heights Art Center, Northern Kentucky University, and the Artisans Enterprise Center.

Discography

• Curvature (Self-released, 2007)
• Lexington Demos (Self-released, 2008)
• Alchemy (Self-released, 2010)