Joe Beard has been played on NTS in shows including Tarzsa, featured first on 31 October 2021. Songs played include Like We Used To.

Joe Beard (January 4, 1938, Ashland, Mississippi) is an American blues and rhythm & blues musician.

He was surrounded by aspiring and veteran blues musicians. Matt "Guitar" Murphy and his brother Floyd Murphy were Beard's childhood buddies and the ones who initially got him started on guitar. Beard moved to Rochester, New York, in the mid-1950s and from time to time would visit one of his brothers in Chicago. He became enamored with the blues being played there and eventually sat in…