photo by Michael Gomez
struck by in listening to the album was the sonic losing their integrity. So that was my approach, [WM] In watching the video for “I Saw the Light”
fidelity and musicality of the performances – as whether it was tweaking a lyric, or adding a I was again struck by the overwhelming level of
well as the spirit of peace that is on this disc. In new lyric, or changing the arrangement or musicality. Everybody is playing their parts with
many ways an album is the sum of the parts, so whatever it may be, I really went at it with the total command, but always staying perfectly in
which parts on this album speak to you most thought, “This is a great song, this song stands their lane. You met your wife / keyboardist and
and why? on its own, but how am I going to approach it, background vocalist at Belmont University. Can
perform it, sing it, in a way where people who you describe your musical journey of getting to
[Josh] I think there’s a variety of old and new have never been to church, or never heard my where you are as a musician?
on this record, but my biggest goal with this music, can relate to it?” That was really my record outside of just singing songs from the approach, and I guess in a sense it’s a pretty [Josh] That’s a loaded question (laughs). I
heart, was just trying to relate to people in 2018 evangelistic approach (laughs). And I’m not started singing when I was four or five years
or 2019. I love the old hymns. Those are the ashamed of that. old. The first time I sang a Country song in front
songs I grew up on when I was young and going of a crowd was when I was thirteen. Four years
to church when I didn’t really think twice about after that I started playing guitar and writing
how they were written or the words that were songs. Pretty much right around that same
used. But when you become the one in the time I injured my voice, and that ironically led
spotlight singing these songs you start thinking me to my first trip to Nashville. I ended up at
about everything. For me, when I approached the Vanderbilt Voice Clinic to get help with my
these older songs, whether it was “Amazing voice, luckily I didn’t have to get surgery, but
Grace”, or “I Saw the Light”, I started looking at
how I could modernize them without the song
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that led to a whole lot of years of vocal training,
I Saw the Light //
Josh Turner, Live from Gaither Studio
December 2018
learning about the anatomy of the voice, how
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