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JOSH TURNER EARNS GRAMMY NOMINATIONS FOR COUNTRY ALBUM OF THE YEAR AND BEST MALE COUNTRY VOCAL PERFORMANCE
Nashville, TN --- Dec 7, 2006 --- Emerging country super star Josh Turner earned two Grammy Nominations this morning for Country Album Of The Year for YOUR MAN and Best Male Country Vocal Performance for "Would You Go With Me." YOUR MAN, Turner's sophomore effort made its debut at #1 on the Billboard Country Album Chart the last week in January selling over 100,000 copies its first week in stores. Within weeks, the album was gold and shortly thereafter, certified platinum. To date, the album has scanned 1.3 MILLION units and now, nearly a year later, YOUR MAN continues to scan a massive 30,000 units a week.
Turner has quickly established himself as a powerful force in the world of country music. He has released BACK to BACK platinum albums and BACK to BACK multi week #1 singles at country radio with his lead single "Your Man" and the Grammy nominated "Would You Go With Me." He reached the #1 mark yet again when "Me And God," a duet with legendary Ralph Stanley reached the top of the American Christian Top 40 chart.
Turner's one-of-a-kind voice has been described as "a baritone carved of solid granite, reminiscent of no less a luminary than Johnny Cash," in Country Weekly, "deep, rich and delicious" in USA Today, "sublime and gorgeous," in New York Times and in No Depression as, "riveting...impossible to get out of your head." A true fan of country music and its rich history, Turner takes great pride in these compliments and the recognition from his peers. Turner was in the studio this afternoon recording with friend and producer Frank Rogers when he learned about the news, "I was totally surprised, I didn't expect a Grammy nomination. The first three messages we got were about the album nomination then we got news about Best Male Vocal. And I thought this year couldn't get better..."
Entertainment Weekly
Fireball
Grade: B+. Shawn Camp is one of Music Row's hotter songsmiths (with four cuts on the new Josh Turner disc alone), plus an in-demand session player, with unassailable chops that run the rockabilly-to-bluegrass gamut. Put him down as a triple threat, since Fireball proves he's also a better record-maker than most of his employers. Fans of the rootsrockin' side of NRBQ or Nick Lowe (and maybe even the late Jimmy Martin, who makes a dog-shushing cameo) will quickly cotton to these fast and loose songs about similarly inclined women. [read all]
The News & Observer
Fireball
4 stars. From the explosive opening of the title track, "Fireball" (Skeeterbit Records) lives up to its incendiary premise. Moving seamlessly between country, folk, rock and bluegrass, Camp cleverly fuses melody and lyric in ways that set toes tapping and bring smiles to the face. [read all]
Nashville Scene
Fireball
Camp’s new album, Fireball, gives him his best opportunity ever for crossing that boundary. Released on his own indie label and firmly rooted in tradition, the album doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell with country radio. But the record is so catchy, so lively and so believable that it could catapult Camp toward a Mary Gauthier-like or Buddy Miller-like career—one where critical adulation leads to a loyal audience that assures gigs at the best listening room in every big city and a new album every two years. There are no guarantees—just being good is never enough—but the opening is there. [read all]
Creative Loafing
Live At The Station Inn
In Nashville, great songwriters are a dime a dozen, and it is usually a simple twist of fate that lifts the lucky few into that evasive place of criti cal and financial success. Shawn Camp, who has been kicking around Music City for more than a decade, has made a name for himself within the small songwriter circles. But public acclaim has eluded him, even with a stint as a Warner Brothers recording artist. Better known as a hit writer for folks such as Garth Brooks, George Strait, Brooks & Dunn and others, Camp has the ability to work effectively in a number of styles such as mainstream, radio-friendly country, hardcore honky tonk, and, as featured on Live at the Station Inn, pure bluegrass. [read all]
Country Music News
Live At The Station Inn
Shawn Camp’s high lonesome vocals are particularly well suited to his bluegrass leanings, and he triumphs here with some outstanding tunes, all of which he has had a hand in writing. There are many special moments on the album but the very best are found on the more plaintive offerings like Forever Ain’t No Trouble Now, Traveling Teardrop Blues, Magnolia Wind, The Guilt Was Gone and My Love Will Not Change. [read all]