Joe Survival Caruso - I've Got the VooDoo Baby !

Joe Survival Caruso grew up in a New Orleans musical family. The legendary Club Desire, just across the street from Joe?s house, was where he first learned the sounds of Blues and Rhythm and Blues performers including the young Ray Charles, Guitar Slim, Memphis Slim, Count Basie, Dinah Washington, Fats Domino, and other greats.Joe formed his first R&B band at the age of 15 with a group of schoolmates. They called themselves "The Ec-Statics Revue," opening for headliners Etta James, Hank Ballard, Ernie K-Doe, Aaron Neville and Johnny Adams.

In September of 2005, Joe left New Orleans with his elderly mother on a Friday to play a gig with Al "Little Fats" Jackson at the Grand Casino in Kinder, Louisiana, located in the northwest part of the state. The weather was beautiful that weekend. While there, Joe received a telephone call from a friend in New Orleans warning him not to come back home because a storm was approaching. Joe didn't know then that this storm would become the very powerful Hurricane Katrina and that everything he owned would be lost except for his love of his family and the Blues.