Josh Turner Mixes Hits, Gospel & Gravity To Reach the Platinum!

Josh Turners second album Your Man was released in January 2006. It has been great success for Josh who is devoted Christian and used to sing bass and baritone in church choir in his home state South Carolina. So far Josh has released two singles which reached #1 in Billboard Country Charts, title track Your Man and even bigger hit Would You Go With Me. He also released very religious Me and God as a single to Christian Radio. It deputed on Country Charts at #54. The album itself has reached Platinum selling over 1.6 million copies to date. Josh Turner also received two Grammy nominations for the best country album and for his vocal in Would You Go With Me.

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Here is my personal takes on each of the songs:

Would You Go With Me 3:47

Just a super start! Just great use of band and beautiful melody. It still has a country feel to it and Josh turns it (and me!) on. "If I gave you my hand would you take it and make me the happiest man in a world" and then he goes oh so low with "would you go with me" The video was so beautiful and well done too, all the colors and magic box and traveling in time, I love the whole thing.

Baby's Gone Home To Mama 3:05

Faster beat and swinging feel. I could do some dancing to this, it is almost Toby Keith style "she's gone" song. I still like it.

No Rush 4:05

This sounds like Kenny Rogers in Gambler on the beginning! Then you get sucked into the melody that is totally not rushing, just slow and pleasant and I would love to lean on to my man on a dance floor and feel romantic. Barely moving your feet and just feeling the love. Wow! Very Valentine's Day.

Your Man 3:31

So now you are off the dance floor and back in the bedroom! Get that bottle of wine and let Josh do the talking. Big hit and his beautiful wife looks great on the video. No better place to go that is for sure! I love the oldfashion swinging feel on this album, another song that demands you to do some romantic dancing.

Loretta Lynn's Lincoln 3:54

Very funny and this flows like a river. Josh makes me smile and I wish I could buy Loretta Lynn's Lincoln. Mix in Dolly and you are in for a visual trip, just close your eyes and imagine! Great song to listen while driving on a highway..

White Noise 3:22

Singing with John Anderson. This is stage material. Maybe some find it offensive but I think it is still true for many and not necessarily in a bad way, white boys do the country and black boys do the blues. Nobody tells them but that is what they like to do. So is it being racist? Good singing, not the most original melody.

Angels Fall Sometimes 2:57

Beautiful classic tune, very gospel feel. Not too much behind Josh awesome voice and I am feeling little sad. Simple and so worth listening.

Lord Have Mercy On A Country Boy 3:05

Another easy listening song I like to singalong. This is a campfire song with lyrics done million times. I got no chores? I wish... This one is a filler, not bad though.


Me And God 3:39

Now we totally travel to the gospel world. Well done gospel together with Ralph Stanley & Diamond Rio. Josh Turner sounds very at peace singing this and I believe that he believes. I'll respect him for including this one to his album!

Gravity 3:39

Another more serious song. Simple not so original melody, lyrics are tad silly. Gravity? Josh does not like the gravity because it leaves him all scraped up. Stupid, my least fave in this album.

Way Down South 4:52

These lyrics are good, this is all church Sunday gospel. If you are from south you will like this one and I am tapping my toes to the rhytm, I love the low baritone soooooouuuttttth in this, Josh has such an original voice. Ending is a mess, they start just jamming along I am not getting it at all. Trying to be little jazzy?

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This album starts strong with very nice and original material all the way to White Noise which might not be everyones favorite. Beautiful ballad Angels Fall Sometimes starts more religious and deep section of songs that will not fit todays pop-country charts but will showcase very believable and happy and content Josh Turner singing the kind of material that he has been most familiar with and he will held his head high all the way to the end.

Actually I find it refreshing to listen to his gospel style songs after all the Toby Keiths and Rascall Flatts and even more popstyle Carrie Underwood. I doubt if I would buy it without the hits in the beginning but it all works together very well for me anyway.