Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher To Sign Recording Contract, Release Country Album.

[malik flavors]

Joe the Plumber pursued for record deal
By JEFFREY RESSNER | 10/29/08 3:59 PM EDT



Stretching his 15 minutes of fame: Joe the Plumber may put out a country album just in time for the Inauguration.
Photo: AP

Move over, Sanjaya, and tell William Hung the news: Joe the Plumber is being pursued for a major record deal and could come out with a country album as early as Inauguration Day.

“Joe” — aka Samuel Wurzelbacher, a Holland, Ohio, pipe-and-toilet man — just signed with a Nashville public relations and management firm to handle interview requests and media appearances, as well as create new career opportunities, including a shift out of the plumbing trade into stage and studio performances.

On Tuesday, Wurzelbacher joined country music artist and producer Aaron Tippin to form a new partnership that includes booking-management firm Bobby Roberts and publicity-management concern The Press Office to field the multiple media offers he’s received over the past few weeks.

Among the requests: a possible record deal with a major label, personal appearances and corporate sponsorships. A longtime country music fan, Wurzelbacher can sing and “knocks around on guitar” but is not an accomplished musician or songwriter, according to The Press Office’s Jim Della Croce.

“He’s a complicated guy with a very dynamic personality,” Della Croce told Politico. “He can sing and obviously has a strong political point of view.”

The Press Office, a PR firm based in Nashville, Tenn., represents an eclectic array of other clients including country stars John Anderson and the Gatlin Brothers, quirky folk singer Leon Redbone, NASCAR driver Chase Mattioli and animal repellent firm Liquid Fence. The Bobby Roberts Company reps several of the same acts, in addition to Juice Newton, Merle Haggard and Jon Secada.

Wurzelbacher made his auspicious debut earlier this month when Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama appeared in “Joe’s” neighborhood and was buttonholed on his tax plan. The media blitz went into high gear after John McCain talked about Wurzelbacher during the last televised presidential debate.

He has since made an appearance on Fox’s weekend variety show starring former presidential aspirant Mike Huckabee, and this week was showcased by McCain in a series of “Joe the Plumber” events.

The new partnership originated on the set of the “Huckabee” show, where Tippin appeared with his band during the same program.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/15072.html

The Sarah Palin Show, The Mike Huckabee Show, and now Joe the country singer. I guess the GOP is going to manage to get SOMETHING out of this election. Look out Tinseltown!

[dave29]

1. His new album, "Plumbin & Strummin" to hit stores Nov 4th

:hide:

[Smuckies]

2. Oh god.

[TrogL]

3. ...which just shows the state of the art of "country" music

[FVZA_Colonel]

4. This election.

This fucking election.

[malik flavors]

8. Haha, it's one for the ages.

[ComtesseDeSpair]

5. Oh you've gotta be kidding me...

Could this possibly get anymore nauseating???? :puke:

[Window]

13. Quite unbelievable. n/t

[Starry Messenger]

6. "But he was just this guy...he was just standing there!"

:eyes:

[zulchzulu]

7. I already wrote a song about him... maybe he could play it on his album

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=7487856

[Dr Fate]

9. From Shit Parade to Hit Parade?

Interesting story, but can you dance to it?

[BornBlue]

10. Doesn't he know that a successful recording artist

will have to pay more TAXES? He is going to be working so hard in the studio, but big bad Barack is going to take all that $$ away and redistribute it.

:evilgrin:

[sufrommich]

11. Joe and his enlarged head have about 2 minutes

left as the latest shiny object.

[gardenista]

12. Looking down the line a few years...

This guy is going to screw himself so bad in his need for attention.

He'll make a bit of money. Not know how to manage it. (Doesn't know the difference between gross and net income as it is).

He'll attract some attention, get some airplay, drop his current squeeze, hook up with some version of Caribou Barbie, maybe have a couple more kids.

Then come the tax liens (more of 'em, and the RNC won't be there to pay them off).

Then the child support when his CB inevitably moves on to Joe the Developer she met at the Country Music Has-Been Awards.

And then the inevitable slide into obscurity, back to where he is now. A deadbeat who shoots his mouth off about crap he knows nothing about.

This guy has been exploited and he will pay the price after he's thrown under the bus, just like all of the people the RNC has used for their rhetorical hat tricks.

[Loge23]

14. 15 minutes of fame - the extreme version

So this guy lies to a presidential candidate, gets "discovered" by the lunatic fringe, now he gets a book deal and a record contract.
He's not a plumber, was never in the game to buy a business, and he makes enough money to benefit well from a President Obama.
But no, no apologies, no sulking back under the rock he climbed out of, no sense at all. Joe the Plumber is now a foreign policy expert, an auther, a country music star. Yikes!
Is this a great country or what?

[kestrel91316]

15. You forgot the link to The Onion. Please, sweet Jesus, tell me you forgot

the link to The Onion.........

[malik flavors]

26. Sorry friend, you aren't dreaming.

[Swamp Rat]

16. Here's his album cover:

[msallied]

17. ...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I love that!

[Seen the light]

18. I was expecting a RickRoll'd

[goodboy]

19. title: "on the commode again"

[progressivebydesign]

20. Somebody please just put me out of my misery. I cannot survive this mocking of our democracy.

Palin and McCain should be thrown in jail for the mockery they've made of our democracy.

WTF? Just WTF?

[ecstatic]

21. This is hilarious because I just compared Joe and Sarah to William Hung

the other day!

[Heather MC]

22. Let's play guess the title of his first track

"I got two ex-wives, and I'm a big fat lie"

"I was to drunk to get my Plumbing certificate"

"Sappy Failins clothes is worth more than my house"

[Az_lefty]

23. Good Lord, this has to be a joke! Please make the insanity stop!!!!!

[theothersnippywshrub]

24. This shithead is becoming his own sitcom. President Obama should give him a job

polishing turds.

[Monk06]

25. He's keen on fishin too

[rgbecker]

27. 2012. Sarah and Joe for the Republicans!

Now that Sarah has gotten up to speed on what a VP does she'll be ready to take on the top spot on the ticket, but who will fill her shoes as VP candidate? Joe, the singing plumber, of course. "Obviously has a strong political point of view."

[mwei924]

28. Oh God. It's worse than William Hung.

[WinkyDink]

29. It will go nowhere. After Tuesday, he's fish-wrap.

[Berry Cool]

30. And here I was, dumb enough to think "A Face in the Crowd" was just a MOVIE!

Andy Griffith, call your agent!!!!