Josh Turner said he’d never forget listening to the work tape of his first No. 1 single, “Your Man.” “It was just Chris Stapleton and a guitar and at first, I could not hear how it would be for my record,” says Josh. “My producer said take it home, put it in a different key, play around with it… and here we are 15 years later. 🤠 It was great to catch up with Chris Stapleton here about my first #1 single and his first #1 as a songwriter.”
“Your Man” was written by, Chris Stapleton, Chris DuBois and Jace Everett. Listen to the Deluxe Edition of ‘Your Man’ by Josh Turner here: https://strm.to/JTYourManDeluxeEdition
Check out the interview below.
Josh is celebrating the release of the deluxe edition of his iconic Double Platinum-selling Your Man album. It features all 11 original tracks including collaborations with country icons John Anderson, Dr. Ralph Stanley, and Diamond Rio’s Marty Roe, Gene Johnson, and Dana Williams, plus live versions of the title track “Your Man,” fan favorite and often celebrated “Me and God,” and multi-week No. 1 hit “Would You Go With Me.”
“Hey everybody, Keith Urban here, wanting to wish you all a fantastic and safe summer. Enjoy the sunshine. Hopefully, you’ll get to spend some time with the ones you love, and hopefully, we’ll also get to see you out on the road.”
Country star Josh Turner’sYour Man Deluxe Editionis out now. The deluxe edition celebrates 15 years of Turner’s iconic Double Platinum-selling Your Man album. It features all 11 original tracks including collaborations with country icons John Anderson, Dr. Ralph Stanley, and Diamond Rio’s Marty Roe, Gene Johnson, and Dana Williams, plus live versions of the title track “Your Man,” fan favorite and often celebrated “Me and God,” and multi-week No. 1 hit “Would You Go With Me.”
“The YOUR MAN album holds so many special memories,” says Turner. “It marked so many firsts in my career. My first No.1 album and single and we were pregnant with our first child. It was a pivotal album in my career, and I am so thankful to be celebrating it 15 years later with the release of YOUR MAN Deluxe Edition.”
The Triple Platinum-selling title track “Your Man,” penned by Chris Stapleton, Chris DuBois, and Jace Everett, has become one of Turner’s trademark hits, as has the accompanying video which is now nearing 100M views. Turner and the video’s leading lady, his wife Jennifer, returned to the historic Hermitage Hotel in downtown Nashville for a special anniversary making of the “Your Man (Official Music Video – Reimagined 15 Years Later),” which also features cameos of the couple’s four children- Hampton, Colby, Marion, and Hawke.
“I don’t think anybody has done this, where the same people go back and recreate the video from 15 years prior, in the same location,” Turner shares exclusively with PEOPLE. “When I saw the first edit, I just sat there, and I was speechless. I was thinking, this is kind of crazy looking. Once you think you’ve done it all, you haven’t.”
Watch “Your Man (Official Music Video – Reimagined 15 Years Later)
Turner’s Double-Platinum-selling “Would You Go With Me” also recently experienced a viral surge across TikTok leading to a jump in streaming which landed the classic country tune on Spotify’s US Viral 50 along with Spotify Viral charts in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland. Posting more than 3.7M weekly streams, “Would You Go With Me” moved inside the Top 35 on the Country streaming chart and ranked HOT on Amazon Music’s Voice Index.
The Your Man Deluxe Edition marks the first time the signature album has been pressed on vinyl which is available now exclusively at Walmart.
Josh Turner is celebrating 15 years of Your Man with a special deluxe edition of the iconic album available Friday ( June 25th). Leading into the deluxe release, Turner is hosting a virtual album release event at 7pm CT on June 24 including performances of some of his most memorable hits from Your Man.
The Your ManDeluxe Edition features all 11 original tracks including collaborations with country icons John Anderson, Dr. Ralph Stanley, and Diamond Rio’s Marty Roe, Gene Johnson, and Dana Williams, plus live versions of the Triple-Platinum-selling title track “Your Man,” fan favorite and often celebrated “Me and God,” and multi-week No. 1 hit “Would You Go With Me.”
“Just the sheer fact that I’m celebrating 15 years since the release of my second record is kind of hard to believe,” says Josh. “We added three live versions of the singles that were on this record, and I went back and rewrote all the liner notes because there’s so many backstories and side stories to this record and how it’s affected people and just the interactions with the other artists and the collaborations. There’s just so much life that’s happened since this record has come out, so much has happened in my career.”
Josh is hoping the deluxe version will reach a new generation of fans. “Obviously, it’s already sold over two million copies so there’s a lot of people that have the original version of this record, but this younger generation they grew up in a world and they’ve grown up in a world where they were buying single songs, they were streaming stuff, they weren’t going out and buying the physical album or even the digital album for that matter. So, hopefully, this kind of encourages them to see the full body of work because it’s not just about ‘Your Man’ or ‘Would You Go With Me’ or ‘Me And God.’ There’s other songs on this record. (laughs) So, hopefully they’ll discover those for the first time.”
Leading into the deluxe release, Turner is hosting a virtual album release event at 7pm CT on June 24 including performances of some of his most memorable hits from Your Man.
Audio / Josh Turner hopes new fans will discover his multi-platinum album, Your Man, with the release of the deluxe version.
Josh Turner (deluxe Your Man) OC: …the first time. 1:19 “Just the sheer fact that I’m celebrating 15 years since the release of my second record is kind of hard to believe. We added three live versions of the singles that were on this record, and I went back and rewrote all the liner notes because there’s so many backstories and side stories to this record and how it’s affected people and just the interactions with the other artists and the collaborations. There’s just so much life that’s happened since this record has come out, so much has happened in my career. And we’re hoping that this kind of reaches a new generation of fans because obviously it’s already sold over two million copies so there’s a lot of people that have the original version of this record, but this younger generation they grew up in a world and they’ve grown up in a world where they were buying single songs, they were streaming stuff, they weren’t going out and buying the physical album or even the digital album for that matter. So, hopefully, this kind of encourages them to see the full body of work because it’s not just about ‘Your Man’ or ‘Would You Go With Me’ or ‘Me And God.’ There’s other songs on this record. (laughs) So, hopefully they’ll discover those for the first time.”
Here are some Mother’s Day liners from UMG Nashville artists, including Adam Hambrick, Brandon Lay, Brothers Osborne, Carrie Underwood, Caylee Hammack, Chrissy Metz, Darius Rucker, Dierks Bentley, Eric Church, George Strait, Jon Langston, Jon Pardi, Jordan Davis, Josh Turner, Kacey Musgraves, Kassi Ashton, Keith Urban, Kip Moore, Kylie Morgan, Lauren Alaina, Little Big Town, Luke Bryan, Maddie & Tae, Mickey Guyton, Parker McCollum, Priscilla Block, Sam Hunt, Shania Twain, Travis Denning and more!
Each year on February 14th, many people exchange cards, candy, gifts or flowers with their special someone. The day of romance we call Valentine’s Day is named for a Christian martyr and dates back to the 5th century.
Over 190 million Valentine’s Day cards are exchanged annually, making Valentine’s Day the second-most popular greeting-card-giving occasion.
Sunday is Valentine’s Day (February 14th), and we’ve got some thoughts and feelings and more about love, romance and marriage from several of your favorite country artists. A few are new and some have become our favorites over the years. Which country stars are romantic? Which ones aren’t? Which ones have a good reason to celebrate the holiday that’s all about love?
AJ (Valentine’s Day) OC: …continue to. :24 “We got a lot of history together now, and we’re happier than we’ve ever been. So, she’s still beautiful, and she’s always inspired songs. I mean, one of my early hits was a song called ‘I’d Love You All Over Again,’ I wrote for her for our 10th anniversary. I mean, there’s been a zillion songs that have pieces of our good days and bad days inspired, and they continue to.”
Audio / Billy Currington recalls his first real Valentine’s Day.
Billy Currington (Valentine’s Day memory) OC: …took off running. :21 “Yeah, I remember my first girlfriend. I was in first or second grade, but anyway, I remember it was Valentine’s Day and your mom going, ‘You’ve got to give your girlfriend something, and you’ve got to go give it to her.’ I’ll never forget — we got her a box of chocolates or whatever it was. I remember going down to her classroom and knocking on the door, getting her to come to the door. I remember handing it to her, and then I took off running.”
Audio / Carrie Underwood is all about the chocolate most couples give each other on Valentine’s Day.
Carrie Underwood (Valentine’s Day-chocolate) OC: …white chocolate. :14 “Chocolate’s every woman’s friend – in their time of need or in their time of happiness or in their time of sadness or madness, chocolate is my friend. Anything with caramel in it, ooooooooh. White chocolate’s good too. You can’t beat some good white chocolate.”
Audio / DIERKS BENTLEY SAYS THE MOST INTERESTING GIFT HE AND HIS WIFE CASSIDY HAVE GIVEN EACH OTHER WERE MIXTAPES OF SONGS.
Dierks Bentley (Valentine’s Day-most interesting gift he’s given his wife) OC: …formulate yourself. 1:19
“When ‘What Was I Thinkin’’ was released in 2003, I didn’t know what my life would look like, and all of a sudden, I found myself out on the road full-time, just gone. So, the place where I was staying, I had some friends pack it up and move it into a storage facility…and in there I found some letters that she and I had written back and forth when we were dating. I was working at The Nashville Network and she was working out in San Francisco and found some letters I had written her and I’d gotten back and some stuff she’d sent me, including a CD of songs she’d been listening to, back when you made CD mixes and there’s like these three hearts on that CD. I just found that it was so meaningful for me those gifts you give each other before any money, before anything else was going on, just music, giving of mixtapes was so cool. She reminded me of a mixtape that I had sent her. I’d sent it to her via FedEx, because it was so important she get this as quickly as possible. This was sadly before, I guess we had internet back then, but you really couldn’t send songs over the internet. I think the most interesting thing I’ve given her and she’s given me was just mixtapes, because there’s nothing like music to put into words and the thoughts you have in your head that you can’t formulate yourself.”
Audio / Eric Church says his wife, Katherine, loves him in spite of everything.
Eric Church (Valentine’s) OC: …love song is. :48 “True love to me is when you love a person in spite of all their fallibilities, and for me, I have a lot of ‘em. I’m definitely at times hard to love, and that’s what’s great about Katherine and the way she loves me. She loves me in spite of those things and really for those things.”
Audio / Jon Pardi says he has learned a lot about love and about Valentine’s Day from his wife, Summer.
Jon Pardi (Valentine’s Day – Summer) OC: …for you. (laughs) :35 “One thing Summer has taught me is that gifts are cool, diamonds, blah, blah, blah, but to take your time and clear your mind and write something about what she means to you on a card is probably the most least expensive and the biggest price you can give her is just to write and tell her how much you love her on a little card. That’s what she taught me for Valentine’s Day, so I just do that. It’s way cheaper. (laughs) And of course, I always say to her, ‘Babe, every day is Valentine’s Day for you.’ (laughs)
Audio / Jordan Davis talks about meeting his wife in New Orleans. They were both there attending separate weddings.
Jordan Davis (meeting wife) OC: …here we are. :47 “My college roommate was getting married in New Orleans. My wife was in New Orleans for a totally separate wedding. Both wedding parties were staying at the same hotel, so we met, the first time, in the lobby of the hotel. I’m actually wearing a necklace that has the coordinates to that hotel. Then the next day, me and my brother walk into a bar in New Orleans, and her and her friends were sitting in the corner, and I was like, ‘Hey-that’s the girl from the lobby.’ She was actually dating somebody at the time. But we kind of exchanged numbers and stayed in contact, and about two months later, a month later, she came into town for CMA Music Fest and told me that she no longer had a boyfriend, and here we are.”
Audio / Jordan Davis talks about a couple of his favorite love songs.
Jordan Davis (love song) OC: …well done! :25 “I guess Valentine’s Day gets you to thinking about love songs. You know, me and my wife’s first dance was ‘I’m Gonna Lose You’ [by] John Legend and Meghan Trainor. I think that’s just an amazing love song. I think also a love song that I heard the other day? ‘Strawberry Wine’ from Deana Carter? Great love song. I listened to that a lot. Ooooh Deana Carter. Well done.”
Audio / Josh Turner says his wife would call him a romantic, but now that they have four children, it takes a bit of work to make time for each other.
Josh Turner (Romantic) OC: …long time to come. :26 “If you ask my wife Jennifer if I was a romantic, she would definitely say, ‘Yes,’ but she knows that sometimes my hectic schedule and our busy lifestyles can kind of interfere with the romantic side of things. But we do try to make efforts towards being together and having adult conversations and taking time away from the children and doing things that husbands and wives do, so we’ll definitely try to continue that for a long time to come.”
Audio / Keith Urban talks about the support he and his wife, Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman, give each other, which is especially important when two creative artists are married to each other.
Keith Urban (Nicole support) OC: …very important. :17 “I feel very blessed that I have the support of my family like I do. It’s a beautiful thing having two artists because we understand the passion and the responsibility of what we get to do. It’s very important.”
Audio / Little Big Town’s Kimberly Schlapman says falling in love with her husband, Stephen Schlapman, came as a big surprise.
Little Big Town (Kimberly falling in love) OC: …healed me. 1:20
Kimberly: “Well, I wasn’t planning on falling in love, at all. I didn’t want to…I wasn’t sure that I ever would. So, my husband now and I were just really good friends, and after my late husband died all my friends were calling me, all the time. Just checking up on me. He was just an old friends. We had known each other for about six years and he started calling me just like everybody else did. But, he started calling me more than everybody else did [laughs]. We had both been through similar losses, he hadn’t lost a mate but he had lost a close friend, so we kind of bonded over that. I grieved, kind of, at him a lot. He took my grief, I had a lot of grief left, and he just took it and listened and accepted it and was so understanding and let me talk about my late husband all the time. We still talk about him a lot, and he’s totally fine with it. He says that, that made me who he fell in love with and he never minds if I bring anything from the past up which is just really sweet. I was shocked, I remember when I first realized that I was having feelings. I just thought, OK, this is so weird. What is this? I haven’t felt this in a long, long, time. This is weird. But, eventually I allowed myself and it’s been the most beautiful gift of my life. It pulled me out of the deepest hole that I’ve ever been in and healed me.”
Audio / Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild and Jimi Westbrook had a chemistry performing together, but it wasn’t until they each found themselves single…at the same time…that sparks flew romantically. The pair, who wed in 2006, have a son, Elijah.
Little Big Town (Jimi & Karen fell in love) OC: (Kimberly) …to be together. :48
JIMI: “We were in the band a long time before there was ever anything which is interesting. I think there was always something underlying there that we were kind of trying to ignore. And then when the opportunity came, when all of us, ended up single kind of at the same time, a very strange turn of events for the band in a lot of different ways. And those feelings, you were able to come out with them finally. It was like, we’re single. Let’s get together. And, you know, she has a beautiful heart and she’s absolutely gorgeous and I just love her dearly.”
PHILLIP: “Get a room!” [laughs]
KIMBERLY: “They’re a perfect match. They really are. They were meant to be together.”
Audio / Little Big Town’s Phillip Sweet was ready for love when he met Rebecca, his wife since 2007.
Little Big Town (Phillip – reasons fell in love) OC: …real love. :17 “I think everything that I had gone through before had prepared me to be ready to see that there was genuine love there for me, and my Rebecca. So, it was just a great time, I wouldn’t have been ready before I met her…Now it’s just been a really great journey to heal through the past and to know real love.”
Audio / Luke Bryan talks about marrying Caroline, his college sweetheart.
Luke Bryan (married college sweetheart) OC: …married. :27 ”I married my college sweetheart. We dated back in college and broke up for nearly six years, and while I was off doing my Nashville stuff and touring and writing songs, she was finishing getting her career kind of going. Man, we just kinda bumped into each other one night, and it was like bam, here we are married.”
Audio / Luke Bryan talks about the relationship between he and his wife, Caroline.
Luke Bryan (relationship with wife) OC: …enjoy your family. 1:02 “I would say to being a 14 year marriage and relationship and for she and I to have known each other even in college and then we kind of separated a little bit for five, five-and-a-half years, she went and lived her life and I went and kind of did the same, got my career going up here (in Nashville). And you know, the relationship goals are just to try to communicate and talk stuff out and enjoy each other and not let fights or arguments or disagreements linger on more than a day or two. I’m one of those people if we’re not seeing eye-to-eye, I have to let it out maybe a little too soon, sometimes she likes to process it. But the main thing with any marriage is just trying to laugh with one another, have fun with one another, not take each other too serious and like I said, communicate and have good days and have a lot of fun and enjoy your family.”
Audio / Maddie & Tae’s Taylor Kerr talks about her husband, songwriter Josh Kerr. The pair are just about to celebrate their first anniversary as a married couple (they got married February 21st, 2020).
Maddie & Tae (Tae talking about husband Josh) OC: …that way, you know? :45 “From the moment I met Josh, he never shied away from sharing what’s on his heart. For me, sharing what’s on my heart is sometimes hard, but he always created the environment and dynamic of it’s totally normal to open up and let people to see that side of you. And so, the more we spent time together, the more I kind of adopted that mindset of like, ‘Okay, I can be vulnerable. I can take risks. I can put myself out there and maybe get rejected, but maybe it could be awesome.’ Our relationship is that to a T. I was skeptical at first and I was scared, and he was scared. And we both just, we went all in, and I felt so safe to go there with him and he’s always made me feel that way, you know?”
Josh Turner took to his socials to announce he will be performing his first-ever virtual live concert on March 10th at 8pm ET/7pm CT. The show will stream live on @SessionsLive from Nashville!
I’m hosting my first-ever VIRTUAL LIVE concert on March 10th at 7pm ct. The show is streaming live on @SessionsLive from Nashville! Tickets and VIP packages are on-sale now & for the first 24-hours tickets are only $9.99! Get Tickets Now: https://t.co/TgcNCie025pic.twitter.com/LCJC7PvXfz
Josh says in the video, “The best thing is you don’t have to travel, there’ll be no crowds, you can watch from your couch and you can even wear your pajamas.”
He’ll host a pre-show party and a post-show virtual meet-and-greet.
Josh recently re-released the video for his 2009 smash hit, “Your Man,” in HD. His current album is a collection of artists and songs which shaped who he is today as a country singer — Country State of Mind.
Josh Turner and SiriusXM revisit Your Man, one of Turner’s most iconic albums. Hosted by SiriusXM’s Buzz Brainard, Turner shared stories and took questions from fans throughout the celebration of the album’s 15-year anniversary. The anniversary special premieres Friday, Jan. 22 at noon ET with additional airings throughout the weekend on SiriusXM’s Y2Kountry (ch. 61 Fri at noon and 8pm ET; Sat at 6am and 3pm ET; Sun at 9am and 6pm ET).
Originally released Jan. 24, 2006, Your Man debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. The multi-platinum-selling album earned Turner two GRAMMY nominations including one for Best Country Album. The project features two multi-week No. 1 country radio hits with the title track and with “Would You Go With Me,” plus fan-favorite “Me and God.”
Over the years, Turner has become one of country music’s most recognized and beloved voices. Turner’s recent Country State of Mind (Aug. 21, 2020/ MCA Nashville) project, pays homage to a cross-section of classic country music legends and has Turner refashioning songs from Randy Travis, John Anderson and Alan Jackson to Vern Gosdin, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams and more. For more information, visit www.JoshTurner.com.
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