Josh Turner- Your Man
By: Cheryl Harvey Hill, Sr. Staff Journalist
MCA recording artist Josh Turner has followed up his platinum album Long Black Train with a sophomore album that guarantees we will be hearing his beautiful, booming baritone on the radio for a long time to come. Just in time for Valentines Day, Your Man debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and the title cut is already sitting comfortably within the top five on R&R and the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.
Turner's wonderful voice can resonate straight to your gut with very little effort but on this album, he benefits from some great songwriting too. Four of the strongest cuts on the album were co-written by singer/songwriter Shawn Camp; including the cleverly written "Loretta Lynn's Lincoln" which contains a dream sequence that contains the words "Like any other would-be country singin' sensation / I had no visible means of transportation. The radio was on / And we was all lip synchin' / Ridin' 'round Nashville / In Loretta Lynn's Lincoln." With its clever, rhyming phrasing and catchy rhythm, I am certain it is destined to be a popular line dance.
Turner had a hand in writing on five of the eleven cuts on this project; including "White Noise" which he wrote and performs with John Anderson. I don't know how politically correct "Take me where those honkies are a tonkin'" is but I really thought it was funny. Turner and Anderson each have such distinct voices and there is some delightful fiddle and piano playing on this cut as well. "It ain't a thing 'bout black and white / It's Johnny Cash and Charley Pride / That's what I call white noise / Comin' from the real McCoys."
"Angels Fall Sometimes" is definitely one of my favorite cuts. Turner has the perfect voice to deliver these beautiful lyrics and when I saw that this song was written by Turner, with the help of Tony Martin and Mark Nesler, it was not surprising that I loved it. Nesler and Martin have written, collectively and individually, a remarkable index of songs for just about everybody who's anybody in Nashville; they are the dynamic duo in songwriting and if this song doesn't make it to the top of the charts, I will really be surprised.
Turner wrote "Me and God" and gets an assist in singing it from Dr. Ralph Stanley in addition to Marty Roe, Gene Johnson and Dana Williams of Diamond Rio. The vocal harmonies are nice, the lyrics are simple and the music is uplifting; as is the final track, "Way Down South," which is also written by Turner.
Turner's sophomore project is reflective of a more confident singer and songwriter and the influences of some of his early musical heroes are cleverly incorporated into the album to give it a unique diversity, but let's be honest; it's the voice that keeps you coming back for more. Turner's rich, captivating, mesmerizing, baritone voice slides out of the speakers, wraps you up in a super comfy emotional aura of well-being and transports you to a safe place away from all the ills of the world. Turner sings on this album, "I thank the Lord that angels fall sometimes;" all I have to say is, "Thank God for singers like Josh Turner." Do yourself a favor, give Turner a chance and let him be Your Man; I can guarantee you won't regret it.
Your Man song list:
1. Would You Go With Me
2. Baby's Gone Home To Mama
3. No Rush
4. Your Man
5. Loretta Lynn's Lincoln
6. White Noise 7. Angels Fall Sometimes
8. Lord Have Mercy On A Country Boy
9. Me And God
10. Gravity
11. Way Down South
Haywire
Long Black Train
MCA recording artist Josh Turner has followed up his platinum album Long Black Train with a sophomore album that guarantees we will be hearing his beautiful, booming baritone on the radio for a long time to come. Just in time for Valentines Day, Your Man debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and the title cut is already sitting comfortably within the top five on R&R and the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.
Turner's wonderful voice can resonate straight to your gut with very little effort but on this album, he benefits from some great songwriting too. Four of the strongest cuts on the album were co-written by singer/songwriter Shawn Camp; including the cleverly written "Loretta Lynn's Lincoln" which contains a dream sequence that contains the words "Like any other would-be country singin' sensation / I had no visible means of transportation. The radio was on / And we was all lip synchin' / Ridin' 'round Nashville / In Loretta Lynn's Lincoln." With its clever, rhyming phrasing and catchy rhythm, I am certain it is destined to be a popular line dance.
Turner had a hand in writing on five of the eleven cuts on this project; including "White Noise" which he wrote and performs with John Anderson. I don't know how politically correct "Take me where those honkies are a tonkin'" is but I really thought it was funny. Turner and Anderson each have such distinct voices and there is some delightful fiddle and piano playing on this cut as well. "It ain't a thing 'bout black and white / It's Johnny Cash and Charley Pride / That's what I call white noise / Comin' from the real McCoys."
"Angels Fall Sometimes" is definitely one of my favorite cuts. Turner has the perfect voice to deliver these beautiful lyrics and when I saw that this song was written by Turner, with the help of Tony Martin and Mark Nesler, it was not surprising that I loved it. Nesler and Martin have written, collectively and individually, a remarkable index of songs for just about everybody who's anybody in Nashville; they are the dynamic duo in songwriting and if this song doesn't make it to the top of the charts, I will really be surprised.
Turner wrote "Me and God" and gets an assist in singing it from Dr. Ralph Stanley in addition to Marty Roe, Gene Johnson and Dana Williams of Diamond Rio. The vocal harmonies are nice, the lyrics are simple and the music is uplifting; as is the final track, "Way Down South," which is also written by Turner.
Turner's sophomore project is reflective of a more confident singer and songwriter and the influences of some of his early musical heroes are cleverly incorporated into the album to give it a unique diversity, but let's be honest; it's the voice that keeps you coming back for more. Turner's rich, captivating, mesmerizing, baritone voice slides out of the speakers, wraps you up in a super comfy emotional aura of well-being and transports you to a safe place away from all the ills of the world. Turner sings on this album, "I thank the Lord that angels fall sometimes;" all I have to say is, "Thank God for singers like Josh Turner." Do yourself a favor, give Turner a chance and let him be Your Man; I can guarantee you won't regret it.
Your Man song list:
1. Would You Go With Me
2. Baby's Gone Home To Mama
3. No Rush
4. Your Man
5. Loretta Lynn's Lincoln
6. White Noise 7. Angels Fall Sometimes
8. Lord Have Mercy On A Country Boy
9. Me And God
10. Gravity
11. Way Down South
Haywire
Long Black Train
