Josh Turner
Josh Turner
Joshua Otis "Josh" Turner is an American contemporary country music singer and actor. In 2003, he signed to MCA Nashville Records. That same year, his debut album's title track, "Long Black Train", was his breakthrough single release. His second album, Your Manaccounted for his first two number one hits: "Your Man" and "Would You Go with Me," while 2007's Everything Is Fine included a No. 2 in "Firecracker." Haywire, released in 2010, produced his biggest hit, the No. 1 "Why Don't We...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth20 November 1977
CityHannah, SC
CountryUnited States of America
I love deeply, and when it comes to singing love songs and something that I have no problem doing, I put all of my heart and soul into these love songs. I know my fans out there are listening, taking these songs to heart. Like I say, they're relating these songs to their lives, too, and their relationships.
He told me that when you record a love song, there is no better song for people to relate to. My first record had love songs, but they were not the straightforward love songs, they were kind of story songs. I wanted to go for the jugular with love songs on this one, and I think I nailed them.
We'd be singing crazy stuff making up songs while we shot hoops just to goof around. What began as a hobby eventually became a newfound calling for the three of us.
I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and think about writing songs. It's not like that anymore, needless to say.
'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.
I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.
'All Over Me' is a song that I really got fired up the first time I heard it: it just really moved and it really had a lot of energy.
My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year.
I'm definitely not going to go and sing a song that condones certain things.
I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long Black Train,' the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I've been out here promoting that purpose.
It was a dream come true. I was standing in line to meet him with my manager and wife, and I told them it was kind of strange seeing all these country artists in a meet-and-greet line. I don't even know if he knows who I am, but I gave him my record, and he said he was going to listen to it while he works out.
Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey that's slowing everybody else down... not for a while, at least.
I've known from a very early age that singing was what I was supposed to do. There was this unmistaken, undeniable passion within me to sing country music.
Each day I feel a little differently; some times I try to write something that's fictitious and then there's other times where I try to write something that's true.