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After months of touring that found him playing venues from Brooklyn to Boston with the Vandoliers, wowing crowds on the Outlaw Country Cruise, and returning to the Grand Ole Opry stage, Joshua Ray Walker CBS Saturday Morning starting this weekend.
The Dallas, Texas, singer released three songs from his new album, See You Next Time. Backed by his tight-AF band — bassist Billy Kuykendall, drummer Trey Pendergrass, and pedal-steel maestro Adam “Ditch” Kurtz — Walker tore through “Three Strikes” and “Sexy After Dark,” before playing a melodious solo of the “Flash”. Pepa,” a song written about his late father.
“Three Strikes” is a powerful honky-tonk blast, with Walker singing about rolling the DUI dice after another night out at the bar: “’ Because once, twice, three times a crime / if I keep cheating, this. drinking will get the best of me.”
See You Next Timewhich added horns to Walker’s haunting voice through the fan favorite “Sexy After Dark,” the follow-up to Walker’s 2020 LP Glad You’re Done, an album that found him writing haunting songs about topics as diverse as shipwrecks and suicide. “I write these heartfelt songs, but at the end of the day, if we want to survive, it’s really just about selling beer,” Walker said. Car Battery. “We get paid to drive long hours and load up on supplies and stay late at night trying to buy alcohol from people. That’s our job.”
Walker is back on the road next week with shows in Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma. He and the band will play the annual roots-music festival MerleFest in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, on April 27, starting with a West Coast run. and Jade Jackson in May.
