![]() ![]() So, we just keep pressing forward and taking it one day at a time." "Our God never promises that it will be easy. "We've had a lot of challenges and hurdles that we had to overcome, but we've just continued to do what God's called us to do," he reflects. The singer credits their mutual faith, similar values and commitment to each other for keeping the couple as close as they are today. When the South Carolinian launches into his own "Way Down South," a mandolin-and-electric-guitar paean to the geographical womb that formed him, that sound you hear in the background is the whoosh of cowboy hats, sailing through the Dixiefied stratosphere.All long-term relationships have their challenges, and Turner stresses that his marriage to Jennifer is no exception. ![]() Where Turner does bring home the bacon is in moving out of the gospel area and wisely choosing four songs from the pen of the underrated Shawn Camp: "Would You Go with Me," the irresistible bluegrass invitation to forever (with lyrics that sound Biblically inspired, despite the overly romantic tone) the hilarious "Loretta Lynn's Lincoln" the bluesy "No Rush," which walks the same sexy path as Tony Joe White and Conway Twitty and the frustrated-husband lament "Baby's Gone Home to Mama." Turner also scores points in tipping his hat to heritage, sometimes more subtle (reworking Don Williams's "Lord Have Mercy on a Country Boy") than overt. His duet with Ralph Stanley, "Me and God," which Turner wrote, somehow falls short, especially since Stanley sounds so weak that he might have fallen over at the microphone. ![]() Now, with his sophomore album, he proves he wasn't a fluke, even if nothing here immerses itself in the baptismal fire of temptation, death, and redemption with the power of Train. The success of his debut, Long Black Train, had folks in Nashville making bets about Josh Turner's capturing 2004's CMA Horizon Award, but then Turner, whose resonant baritone-bass will rattle the screws out of your car stereo speakers, seemed to quickly fade from sight. For Josh Turner's 2nd album, YOUR MAN, he once again teams up with producer Frank Rogers to put together an album that shows his growth and maturity as an artist and also reflects the changes he has experienced as a person. ![]()
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