3-7-77 Productions is pleased to welcome you and your besties to Virginia City for a weekend or Music, Family and Friends July 31st - August 2nd. Oregon music hall of fame musician, Jerry Joseph, will be preforming for his songs for three nights, two of them with his current band the Jackmormons, and one night with his band from the 1980/90s Little Women. Joining these bands on guitar will be fellow Oregon Music Hall of Famer Casey Neill www.caseyneill.com. Also performing will be Sgt. Splendor (Kate Vargas & EricMcFadden), who are bringing their full band to Montana for the first time www.sgtsplendor.com, Steve Drizos will play a duo acoustic set with his guitarist Todd Wright www.stevedrizos.com, and rounding things out is Eugene, OR musician Young Jim Carr www.youngjimcarr.com

Little Women, Jerry Joseph’s first band, was destined to be huge in the mid-’80s. But rock ’n’ roll is a fickle business, and sometimes things just don’t go as planned.

Jerry Joseph formed the rock/reggae band Little Women in late 1981. One of the first incarnations of the band was formed in Logan, Utah. The band consisted of Brad Rosen on drums, Stefan Derby on bass, Eric Hellberg on keyboards and Jerry Joseph on guitar. The band featured several lead guitarists over the years, including Greg Millar (1983), Steve Smith (1989), Steve Kimock (1989) and Steven James Wright (1987). C. Louis Butts, Jr (1983 to 1992) replaced Darby on bass and percussionists Ernesto Pediango (1983) and Tony (1983) eventually played with the group.

Little Women’s first self-released cassette, Life’s Just Bitchin, was recorded in late 1986, early 1987 near Pomona, CA and featured Joseph, Butts, Geoff George (1982 to 1992, keyboards, vocals), Gregg Freeman (1985 to 1989, percussion), and Brad Rosen (1981 to 1993, drums, vocals).


That was followed in 1990 with Pretty Wiped Out, the first release to feature the staple Chainsaw City, and featuring David Lindley, Ian McLagan and Steve Kimock.

Little Women released a single for the Wahine Records label in 1992 of Drive, with Milk on the b-side, as well as the live album, Live Radish Head. In 1993 the band released Live at New Georges containing the Jimmy Webb song, “Wichita Lineman”. The live band line-up from this point (late 1992) onward consisted of Joseph, Steve James, Greg Williams/Danny Carbo (drums) and Glen Esparza (bass). In 2006, Joseph’s Cosmo Sex School records re-released Live Radish Head.

They eventually signed to Capricorn Records but were ultimately dropped after recording what would become The Welcome Hunters in 1993.

After the breakup of Little Women in 1993, Joseph released The Welcome Hunters under his name, but it was essentially a Little Women record with James, Esparza and Williams on drums. This was the first album to contain the hit Climb To Safety, a song often covered by the band Widespread Panic.
While these Little Women recordings capture a moment in rock history, they are far from nostalgic—many of these songs remain relevant as staples in Jerry’s live shows, and many fans of Little Women were also Deadheads, and many were tapers so consequently, hundreds of shows were recorded and are still in circulation. Thanks to Archive.org You can go online and listen to many here: https://archive.org/details/LittleWomen

Tickets for this weekend of music and fun are on sale now at www.events.sellout.io/jerry-joseph-and-the-jackmormons-vc-2026 or by visiting www.jerryjoseph.com/calendar, or you can use your phomne’s camera and scan the QR code on this page. We sure hope to see you there supporting 3-7-77.