Josh Turner just released his first gospel collection, I Serve a Savior, and he says his grandmother’s record collection profoundly influenced him.
“She had a huge collection, and she had everything from Roy Acuff to Waylon Jennings to Johnny Cash to The Stanley Brothers, the Osborne Brothers, all kinds of southern gospel groups, Ernest Tubb,” says Josh. “She loved music and she loved gospel music, and she had one of those huge ginormous stereo console things in her house with a record player and 8-track machine and all that stuff. Every time I went to her house she had one of those records playing.”
In addition to the 12-track studio project, Turner has released a complementing 90-minute live performance DVD featuring a special interview of Turner with gospel legend Bill Gaither, a performance with Turner alongside his wife, Jennifer, their four sons, and more. The DVD has been edited to air as a one-hour television special hosted by Bill Gaither, which will re-air November 22nd on RFD, November 24th on RFD and TBN and November 24th on the Heartland channel, as well as other dates.
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“She had a huge collection, and she had everything from Roy Acuff to Waylon Jennings to Johnny Cash to The Stanley Brothers, the Osborne Brothers, all kinds of southern gospel groups, Ernest Tubb. She loved music and she loved gospel music, and she had one of those huge ginormous stereo console things in her house with a record player and 8-track machine and all that stuff. Every time I went to her house she had one of those records playing. My heart’s always been in country music and the roots of just Americana, just that rootsy, earthy kind of music that our region, the southeast region of the United States is known for.”
