Dallas-based honky-tonker wunderkind Joshua Ray Walker follows-up his near-perfect breakthrough 2019 debut album Wish You Were Here with another amazing album, Glad You Made It. Walker is a big man with a big, high lonesome voice who writes heartfelt songs filled with observational musings about lost souls, truck-stop prostitutes, and D.B. Cooper. Standout tracks include: a tale of a man besting a mechanical bull on “Bronco Billy’s”; the somber slow-burner “Voices”; the heartbreaker “True Love”; the bluesy country rocker “User”; the devastating “Boat Show Girl”; the loser’s anthem on “One Trick Pony”; the cosmic yodel-filled country tune “Loving County”; and the garage rock-meets-country tune “D.B. Cooper.” Even in the span of a year, Walker’s songwriting, musicianship, and band have grown to new heights that some bands will never reach. Joshua Ray Walker has written and recorded an exceptional album with Glad You Made and it outshines expectations for what country music can and should be like. – Written by JFelton
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