About
Joe Stickley is a songwriter and teacher whose career spans more than two decades of writing, recording, and performing throughout Missouri and beyond. His songs wander the towns and taverns, rivers and roads of the Great Midwest, uncovering the extraordinary hidden in ordinary life.
Shortly after graduating from the University of Missouri, Stickley released Friendship's Quiet, the first of three albums with Joe Stickley's Blue Print. The record earned unexpected acclaim, and the songs have continued to carry him through Stickley & Canan, Falling Fences, and solo work.
Away from the stage, Stickley teaches mathematics at St. Louis University High School, where he encourages students to slow down, notice more, and trust their curiosity. For Stickley, teaching and songwriting are expressions of the same calling—an invitation to discover the beauty, hope, and wonder that quietly surround us.
Today, Stickley continues to write, record, and perform throughout the Midwest. Whether with Falling Fences or in his solo work, the songs continue to lead him toward new collaborations, new stories, and the quiet places that first inspired them.