40 Fun Facts About Josh Turner

While resting a damaged vocal cord for a year, Josh Turner learned to do what really well?

Josh Turner learned to whistle while a vocal cord lesion kept him from singing in 1996. He later put the skill on record in his song Down in Georgia.

Josh Turner's Firecracker was kept from number one in 2007 by Our Song, an early hit for whom?

Taylor Swift's Our Song leapt from number six straight to number one, jumping over Firecracker as it reached number two. It was the fastest-climbing single of Josh Turner's career.

Which country star co-wrote Josh Turner's first number one, Your Man, alongside Jace Everett?

Chris Stapleton wrote Your Man with Jace Everett and Chris DuBois, and it earned him an ASCAP songwriting award. The single reached number one on the country chart in early 2006.

Who made his first recording since a 2013 stroke on Josh Turner's cover of Forever and Ever, Amen?

Randy Travis joined Josh Turner on the cover for the 2020 album Country State of Mind. The stroke had severely limited his singing, and he had recorded nothing since.

Which boxing ring announcer delivers the introduction that opens Josh Turner's album Punching Bag?

Michael Buffer, the American ring announcer, is credited with the introduction on the opening track. Josh Turner co-wrote eight of the eleven songs that follow it.

Who auditioned for American Idol with Josh Turner's Your Man and went on to win the tenth season?

Scotty McCreery sang Your Man at his Milwaukee audition aged sixteen. During the season Josh Turner surprised him onstage at a hometown concert and joined in on the song.

AllMusic said Josh Turner's Long Black Train conjured the ghost of which deep-voiced country legend?

Johnny Cash was the comparison the reviewer reached for, thanks to the song's hellfire imagery and Josh Turner's low voice. The single spent more than thirty weeks on the country chart.

Josh Turner sang Two Steppin' on the Moon from Houston's Mission Control to astronauts aboard what?

The International Space Station crew heard Josh Turner perform from Johnson Space Center. NASA invited him after he released the song on his album This Country Music Thing.

In Josh Turner's four-week number one Why Don't We Just Dance, where in the house does the couple dance?

The living room is where the song's narrator asks his partner to dance and forget their troubles. The video shows a real-life couple dancing there in the styles of each decade since the 1950s.

Josh Turner guested on a 2013 Christmas album by the Robertson family, stars of which reality show?

Duck Dynasty's cast recorded Duck the Halls with guests including Josh Turner, George Strait, Luke Bryan and Alison Krauss. It entered the Top Country Albums chart at number one.

Josh Turner grew up singing in church in the small community of Hannah in which southern state?

South Carolina is home to Hannah, an unincorporated community in Florence County. Josh Turner left it for Nashville to study and chase a career in music.

Which vocal part did Josh Turner sing in the gospel quartet he founded while growing up in church?

Bass was Josh Turner's part in the quartet and in choirs. Years later a Country Weekly review of his fourth album praised his booming, polished voice in that same low register.

In Josh Turner's breakthrough hit Long Black Train, the train of the title is a metaphor for what?

Temptation is what the train stands for: Josh Turner said the image came to him in a vision of people beside a track, deciding whether to climb aboard.

Which country pioneer inspired Long Black Train, which Josh Turner sang at his Grand Ole Opry debut?

Hank Williams inspired the song, which Josh Turner wrote himself. It peaked at number thirteen on the country chart in early 2004 and became the title track of his debut album.

Which country star sings harmony with Josh Turner on Another Try, a 2008 ballad about a lost love?

Trisha Yearwood adds the harmony vocal, though she never appears in the song's video. It was the 37th single of her career and reached number fifteen on the country chart.

Josh Turner recorded a live album at which Nashville hall, home of the Grand Ole Opry until 1974?

Ryman Auditorium hosted the concert that became a Josh Turner live album. The building began as a house of worship, which earned it the nickname the Mother Church of Country Music.

Josh Turner played singer George Beverly Shea in a 2008 film about which evangelist's early years?

Billy Graham is the subject of Billy: The Early Years, in which Josh Turner plays the soloist from his crusades. Shea is thought to have sung live to more people than anyone in history.

Josh Turner's Unsung Hero, performed on NBC's Today for Veterans Day, honours which relative?

His grandfather served in World War II, and Josh Turner wrote the song about him. Its music video later premiered on a billboard in New York's Times Square.

Which restaurant chain distributed Josh Turner's 2012 concert album Live Across America?

Cracker Barrel sold the album, twelve songs recorded in concert in different cities. Its stores were also the only place to buy an earlier Josh Turner live album.

Why Don't We Just Dance was the lead single from which Josh Turner album, his fourth studio release?

Haywire followed the single by six months and entered the Billboard 200 at number five. Josh Turner said its title track felt relevant to the world and to his own life.

At which Nashville university did Josh Turner enrol and meet his future wife, Jennifer?

Belmont University drew Josh Turner to Nashville after a spell at Francis Marion University back home. He and Jennifer married in 2003, the year his debut album came out.

Which country star formally inducted Josh Turner into the Grand Ole Opry in October 2007?

Vince Gill did the honours on October 27, 2007, four weeks after the invitation was sprung on stage. Josh Turner was still a few weeks short of his thirtieth birthday.

Josh Turner was invited to join the Grand Ole Opry while presenting an award to which Hee Haw star?

Roy Clark was being honoured for twenty years as an Opry member when the invitation came. He had co-hosted the country variety show on television for more than two decades.

Josh Turner's I Saw the Light with Sonya Isaacs won him which gospel music honour in 2019?

A Dove Award from the Gospel Music Association went to the track from his album I Serve a Savior. It was the first one Josh Turner had won.

In the video for Josh Turner's Would You Go with Me, a jar of sand turns a farmhouse room into what?

A beach appears when two children tip the sand onto the floor of an abandoned farmhouse in Watertown, Tennessee. Green and blue screens conjured each new setting inside the house.

Which Josh Turner single was Billboard's top country song of 2012 despite never reaching number one?

Time Is Love peaked at number two yet outperformed every other country song across the year. Only one earlier single had topped the year-end list without a week at number one.

Which Josh Turner summer song about heading to the riverbank topped the country chart in late 2010?

All Over Me gave Josh Turner his fourth country number one, months after his third. Co-writer Rhett Akins called it a good-time song about hot weather, a boat and a girl.

Which bluegrass great, leader of the Clinch Mountain Boys, sang with Josh Turner on Me and God?

Ralph Stanley, then nearly eighty, shared the vocal on the song Josh Turner wrote for his second album. The duet was nominated for an ACM award for Vocal Event of the Year.

How were the story scenes of Josh Turner's Another Try video, which open on a high bridge, filmed?

Backwards filming put the bridge scene first, mirroring a song about wishing to undo the past. The footage was shot around the town square in Franklin, Tennessee.

Josh Turner's wife Jennifer tours in his band, singing background vocals and playing what?

Keyboards are Jennifer Turner's instrument on the road, and she is credited on piano on his records too. She also starred in the original music video for Your Man.

A Roughstock review said Josh Turner's Why Don't We Just Dance recalled the seductive swagger of whom?

Conway Twitty was the comparison, in a review that also praised a syncopated rhythm showing off the deeper end of Josh Turner's range. The single spent four weeks at number one.

Which Josh Turner single topped the Mediabase chart in 2017, his first top ten hit in five years?

Hometown Girl stopped at number two on Billboard's airplay chart but went one better on Mediabase. Its parent album had been held back for more than two years after an earlier single stalled.

Which country songwriter joins Josh Turner on a 2020 cover of Why Me, a song he first recorded himself?

Kris Kristofferson sings on the track for the covers album Country State of Mind. The same record pairs Josh Turner with Chris Janson, Allison Moorer and Maddie & Tae.

Which group's hit Pontoon helped keep Josh Turner's biggest single of 2012 stuck at number two?

Little Big Town's Pontoon and a Hunter Hayes single each blocked the song from the top. Billboard still ranked the Josh Turner hit as the leading country song of the whole year.

Josh Turner's debut album covers a 1972 hit about a pool hustler, first recorded by whom?

Jim Croce took You Don't Mess Around with Jim to number eight on the Hot 100. Josh Turner's debut also revives a song first recorded by Doug Stone in 1999.

What did Josh Turner call the gospel quartet he founded while growing up in the church?

Thankful Hearts was the group's name. Decades later Josh Turner returned to those roots with a studio album made up mostly of gospel standards.

Members of which country band sing the backing vocals on Josh Turner's gospel duet Me and God?

Diamond Rio's Marty Roe and two of his bandmates supply the harmonies behind the two lead singers. The single climbed to number sixteen on the country chart.

Which producer worked with Josh Turner on each of his first four studio albums?

Frank Rogers produced that whole run and stayed on for the fifth album, Punching Bag. He also plays baritone guitar on three of its tracks.

Josh Turner sang Don't Fence Me In for the soundtrack of a film about which American Girl character?

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl carries Josh Turner's version on its soundtrack. He has also recorded songs for the films An Unfinished Life and Forever My Girl.

Which record label's Nashville arm released Josh Turner's debut album in 2003?

MCA Nashville has been Josh Turner's label home for more than two decades. He extended the deal again in April 2024, ahead of his tenth studio album.