DJ Shadow
This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way)

Champiness said on Sunday, 14 August 2011:
This is such a great example of the power of sampling to me... this "Joe" guy writes a song, lays it down one day, and completely vanishes. For all we know he could be listening to it right now or he could be long dead. But the song just sits there for years and years, collecting dust, until Shadow finds it and puts a whole string arrangement behind it and turns it into a kind of dedication to the common man who may not have achieved his dreams, but at least had the courage to try.

marekjordan said on Wednesday, 06 July 2011:
Great stationary1234.
Thank you very much for this! Been looking for years.Thought that i would never find out who it was...well at least i know that it was someone called Joe :D

jOsSse said on Tuesday, 07 June 2011:
interesting story stationary! love old rare music pearls hehe

stationary.1.2.3.4. said on Monday, 06 June 2011:
This sample originates from an (apparently) 40-year old studio reel found in an abandoned recording studio in the Bay area that was about to be shut down. The only writing on the reel was some yellow tape labeled "Joe", hence I decided to put Joe as the artist for the original track.

The original person who found the reel in the studio and introduced it to Shadow converted it to mp3 and posted it on Soulstrut.

I emailed Louis and asked him if I could submit this, and he said yes, so here you go.