Album title: Deep South
Artist: Josh Turner
Genre: Country/Neotraditional Country
Nationality: American
Release date: March 10
Position in Discography: Sixth
Fear Factor: Moderate
Familiar with this artist? No
Familiar with the genre or subgenre? A little
Average RYM Score: 2.74
So what kind of country is this? Real, honest country or what I like to call faux country, which is a term I give to what is basically pop music that disguises itself as country: Shania, Faith and Travis, I'm looking at you! Well he namechecks Charlie Pride so that's a plus, and the genre is apparently “neotraditional country”, which seems to look back to the, well, traditions of true country music. Whether or not that turns out to be a painful pastiche of the same I guess I'll find out, but so far it's not making me grind my teeth.
Yeah I don't know though: it's a little yee-haw at some points and a little too close to the likes of Garth Brooks pop country at others. It does kind of sound like he's just using the trappings of country music as a backdrop to create a fairly standard pop album; the drawl don't fool me, guy. This is just an album of songs about girls sung in a Southern drawl. Get ye over there beside Garth, Shania and Faith! Don't you have anything else to sing about?
Check out more from this artist? No
Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Yes
Expectation Index: 0