"Joe Ferry" is an Award Winning record producer, author, bassist and educator.

Over the course of his 35 year career, he has procuced records and played bass for numerous artists, including The Skatalites, Dr. John, Rhonda Vincent, Eileen Ivers, Nicolette Larson, John Hammond, Sue Foley, Double Trouble, The Roches, The New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars, SKAndalous All-Stars, Uzimon, Joey Ray, Huey Lewis and the News and Delbert McClinton. He has several Grammy nominations and one Grammy, The Chancellor's Award For Teaching Excellence, and Best Fiction at the San Francisco Book Festival.

Dr. Ferry holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Long Island University, a Master of Fine Arts degree from SUNY Purchase, and a Ph.D. From Kennedy Western University. He is a faculty member at State University of New York at Purchase.

As an educator, Dr. Joe Ferry's former students include Regina Spektor, Langhorne Slim, Dan Deacon, Blake Ian, J-Zone, Elite, Phil "The Butcha" Moffa, Richie Castellano, Jenny Owen Youngs, Bess Rogers, Hanan Rubinstein, Cyrille-Aimee, Dan Romer and many more.

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There's no getting around having to say the honest statement, that from everything we know or from everything the doctors know, this person will die. That (still) allows for the eternal optimism of hope and a miracle.

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They self-soothe. But gradually they'll accommodate for what real life is.

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The primary task is to help them develop a context ... which becomes the experience they already know. It helps kind of ground them in some history so it doesn't feel like such a random thing.

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