The Deep-Cut Smile Country Fans Missed: Josh Turner’s Loretta Lynn’s Lincoln on 2006’s Your Man
A sly, affectionate throwback, Loretta Lynn’s Lincoln gave Josh Turner‘s breakthrough album a grin, a...
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That First Spark Still Matters: Josh Turner’s Heatin’ Things Up Opens This Country Music Thing With Classic Fire
With Heatin’ Things Up, Josh Turner opens This Country Music Thing by reminding listeners that...
When the Room Falls Silent, Josh Turner’s Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Turns a Hymn Into a Testimony
On Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Josh Turner does not try to modernize a sacred standard....
The Song Too Many Fans Missed: Josh Turner’s As Fast As I Could Was the Quiet Heart of 2010’s Haywire
As Fast As I Could is one of those hidden Josh Turner recordings where urgency...
More Than a Johnny Cash Cover, Josh Turner’s The Caretaker Marked a Quiet First on Country State of Mind
On The Caretaker, Josh Turner did more than revisit Johnny Cash. He quietly turned a...
When Those Baritones Met: Josh Turner and John Anderson Turned I’ve Got It Made Into a 2020 Country Homecoming
A 1993 country No. 1 returned in 2020 with deeper resonance, as Josh Turner and...
Hidden Behind the Hits, Josh Turner’s Lord Have Mercy on a Country Boy Gave Your Man Its Soul
On a record remembered for its big singles, Josh Turner turned Lord Have Mercy on...
Buried Deep on Your Man, Josh Turner’s Angels Fall Sometimes May Be His Most Tender Song
A quiet song about weakness, mercy, and the fragile dignity of ordinary people, Angels Fall...
One of Josh Turner’s Most Tender Songs Went Quietly By — Why Left Hand Man on Punching Bag Deserved More
A quiet country promise at the heart of Josh Turner’s 2012 album, Left Hand Man...
When Three Voices Broke the Silence: Josh Turner’s 2020 Desperately Duet With Maddie & Tae Honors a George Strait Classic
In Josh Turner‘s 2020 version of Desperately with Maddie & Tae, an already aching country...
The Quiet Release That Mattered: Josh Turner’s I’ll Be There Arrived June 4, 2021 With No Need to Shout
Released on June 4, 2021, I’ll Be There shows Josh Turner at his most reassuring:...
Hidden in Plain Sight, Josh Turner’s For the Love of God May Be Punching Bag’s Most Moving Moment
Sometimes the songs that make the least noise on the charts leave the deepest echo....
The Quiet Climb That Meant Everything: Josh Turner’s ‘All Over Me’ Became His Fourth No. 1
With All Over Me, Josh Turner turned a warm country love song into a career-defining...
The Wait Ends August 16: Josh Turner’s This Country Music Thing Feels Like a Return to Real Country
Set for August 16, 2024, This Country Music Thing feels like Josh Turner returning to...
Before Christmas Even Arrived, Josh Turner’s King Size Manger Made October 2021 Feel Sacred
Josh Turner’s King Size Manger turned its October 8, 2021 release into more than a...
Twenty Years Later, Josh Turner’s Long Black Train Returns on LP With Even More Power
The 2023 MCA Nashville/UMe LP reissue of Josh Turner’s Long Black Train brings back a...
When the Old Opry Walls Answered: Josh Turner’s Live at the Ryman Became a 2007 Cracker Barrel Treasure
Recorded inside the former home of the Grand Ole Opry, Josh Turner‘s Live at the...
What Made Josh Turner’s ‘Firecracker’ Feel So Alive? Three Songwriters Lit the Fuse in 2007
Firecracker turned a flirtatious country idea into something deeper: a bright, easygoing hit whose staying...
The Quiet Comeback: Josh Turner’s Hometown Girl Took Him Back to No. 1 After Nearly Seven Years
Hometown Girl gave Josh Turner something more valuable than a hit: it restored his place...
That Final Amen Carried a Country Legacy: Josh Turner and Randy Travis on Forever and Ever, Amen from Country State of Mind
Forever and Ever, Amen began as one of country music’s most tender vows, but on...
Fifteen Years Changed the Song: Josh Turner’s Your Man Returned in the 2021 Deluxe Edition With Jennifer Turner
Josh Turner revisited Your Man in 2021 as more than a hit from the past;...
When the World Felt Loud, Josh Turner’s Why Don’t We Just Dance Gave Haywire Its No. 1 Heart
With Why Don’t We Just Dance, Josh Turner gave the Haywire era its emotional center:...
The Guest Vocal That Made the Album: Why Josh Turner’s Another Try Became the Soul of Trisha Yearwood’s Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love
Another Try gave Trisha Yearwood and Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love a deeper...
The Song That Softened Josh Turner: “In My Dreams” Was the Overlooked Heart of 2003’s Long Black Train
On Long Black Train, Josh Turner‘s “In My Dreams” quietly proved that the voice which...
It Was More Than a Cover: Josh Turner’s I Saw the Light and the Quiet Power of the 2018 I Serve a Savior Sessions
In Josh Turner’s live 2018 reading of I Saw the Light, a familiar Hank Williams...
A Country Bloodline Revealed: Why Josh Turner Chose ‘I Can Tell by the Way You Dance’ to Honor Vern Gosdin on 2020’s Country State of Mind
Josh Turner‘s version of I Can Tell by the Way You Dance on Country State...
The Second Straight No. 1 That Meant More: Josh Turner’s Would You Go with Me Still Defines Your Man 20 Years Later
Would You Go with Me did more than follow a hit. It confirmed that Josh...
The No. 2 Hit That Won the Year: Why Josh Turner’s ‘Time Is Love’ Finished 2012 on Top of Billboard Country
A song about the quiet wealth of giving your days to someone you love became...
The Same Words, a Darker Heart: How Josh Turner’s 2010 ‘I Wouldn’t Be a Man’ Recast Don Williams and Steve Wariner’s Hit
Josh Turner did not simply revisit I Wouldn’t Be a Man in 2010. He stepped...
Where 2006 Country Found Its Soul: Josh Turner and Ralph Stanley Turned ‘Me and God’ Into More Than a Duet
Me and God mattered because Josh Turner and Ralph Stanley made faith sound intimate, inherited,...