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“It’s so bizarre when I think about it. Everything just happened.” Joshua Hedley is taking a moment to reflect, not just on the past couple of eventful years, but on his entire life––a life that feels predestined, driven not by the one doing the living, but by the music he has to make. “From the very beginning––asking for a fiddle when I was three––everything just happened,” he says again, laughing a little. “It’s almost like I had no say in it at all.”
Hedley sounds both wryly amused and awestruck. He often does. Self-deprecating but confident, unambitious but hard working, subtle but virtuosic: Hedley is a living paradox. He’s also a hell of an accomplished fiddle player. Now, with the release of his highly anticipated debut album Mr. Jukebox via Third Man Records, he’ll embrace the role he was born to play: this generation’s classic country champion.
In interviews, Hedley has said that he feels no need to try to improve upon perfection, which he believes that Nashville Sound pioneered by giants like Chet Atkins already achieved. So instead, he channels it, like a golden-era honky-tonk medium. “Classic country is like a suit. Nothing about a men’s suit has changed in like 100 years,” he says. “Classic never goes out of style. Something can’t be a throwback if it’s never been out of style.”
A Florida native, Hedley felt inexplicably drawn toward the fiddle as a child. He first asked for one at age 3. His mom listened to Neil Diamond, and his dad listened to Otis Redding––they didn’t see the request coming. But when he asked again five years later, they were struck by the longing’s staying power, and at 8 years-old, he finally got his hands on his very own instrument. “When I was 10, I started trying to find little jam sessions. On Sundays, they had country music jams at the VFW or American Legion, so I learned some fiddle tunes and sat in.” At 12, he joined his first band. His bandmates were in their 40s. “I was a sideshow, you know,” he says with a laugh. “Come see the child fiddle player.”
Around the same time, Hedley visited Nashville with his parents. He knew then that’s where he belonged, and at 19, he made the move. He began sneaking in Robert’s Western World not long after arriving, too young to drink legally and too wild to care. He still remembers his first gig in the now legendary spot, where he’d eventually become a featured performer––and the bartender who threw him out. He was 20, and before he played the gig with the Travis Mann Band, the bartender warned him not to drink. “Of course, I did,” he says. “Of course, she caught me. Luckily it was the end of the night. I think I only missed a couple of songs.”
Hedley went on to become an in-demand sideman at Robert’s and other bars, and ultimately, a well-respected frontman. Armed with an easy croon and prodigious fiddle playing, he became known by peers as the Mayor of Lower Broad. Then he hit the road to perform with artists including Jonny Fritz, Justin Townes Earle, and more, while the 2015 documentary Heartworn Highways Revisited featured Hedley prominently. “I never really wanted to write songs––never really wanted to do anything other than play at Robert’s,” he says. “That’s what I’d envisioned for myself. My goal was to pay my electric bill and bar tab playing music without having to hold a regular job. I didn’t move to town with some grand delusion of ‘I’m going to be famous one day.’”
But friends such as Fritz and Hedley’s then-girlfriend knew he could––should––do more. So at about 28 years-old, he started writing. About four years later, he got sober, unlocking a flood of clarity and creativity. The heartbreaking, distilled, defiantly classic country that poured out of him became Mr. Jukebox, a salve and beacon for 60s honky-tonk devotees everywhere. But make no mistake: Hedley’s music is not mere homage. It’s vigorous, bold, and new. “It’s not a throwback,” he says. “It sounds new because it is new, and it sounds the way it sounds because it’s the only thing I know how to do. I can’t write a song that sounds different.”
Album opener “Counting All My Tears” carves out the collection’s gloriously tear-jerking territory from the jump. As “oooooohhhs” and “aaaaahhhs” serve as spine-tingling harmonies––a classic-country flourish carried throughout Mr. Jukebox––lonely piano is joined by a familiar cast including steel and of course, fiddle. Powerful and smooth, Hedley’s baritone sweeps listeners away as he delivers his side of a sad conversation.
“Mr. Jukebox” is a swinging nod to those beloved machines––both inanimate and breathing––that dependably play a lot of songs for a little money. It’s impossible to listen to the tune and not smile thinking of Hedley’s years logged in cover bands on Nashville’s Lower Broad. Lush strings kick off the sauntering “Weird Thought Thinker,” which features harmonies that evoke both bass walkdowns and angels. An ace fiddle intro opens “Let Them Talk,” a carefree ode to being in love and not worrying about who knows it.
With forlorn yearning, “Let’s Take a Vacation” pleads for one last lovers’ getaway to try to remember what’s been lost. Hedley delivers a masterful recitation over crying steel, soft harmonies, and rich supporting strings. “I wrote it about a girl who I was seeing, who was my ex-girlfriend who I was trying to make current girlfriend again. When I got the mix of the record back, she was in the car with me. I gave her some earbuds and told her to listen. I couldn’t hear what song she was hearing. Then, she just kind of turned red and started giggling, and I knew that she was at the recitation. And I knew that it worked,” he says, laughing.
Hedley penned shuffling “These Walls” about FooBar, a beloved East Nashville dive Hedley lived near before it shut down. “I was really broke and really drunk,” he says. “I had no heat in the winter and no AC in the summer, so I’d get to FooBar about an hour before they opened because I knew the bartenders.” He’d stay all day and night, then stumble home. “I spent a lot of time in there. It’s all the best and worst parts of me.”
“This Time” paints a vivid picture of leaving that’s both proud and blue. Simple and brilliant, “I Never Shed a Tear” sounds like a standard, but just like all but one track on Mr. Jukebox, it’s a Hedley original. “You’re trying to say as much as you can in as few words as possible,” he says. “Trying to convey an emotion to make people feel their own emotions.” Hedley’s ability to capture feelings is on spellbinding display in album standout “Don’t Waste Your Tears,” a soaring, gut-punching vocal performance. The final track is the only cover: a goosebumps-inducing version of “When You Wish Upon a Star.” Hedley picked the song to honor his dad, who passed away about three years ago without seeing the record deal, glowing press, and peer admiration Hedley’s earned. “We spent a lot of Christmases at Disney World,” he says. “When I was searching for a cover song, it dawned on me that my dad didn’t get to see any of this happen, but he always wanted it.”
When asked what he hopes listeners get out of Mr. Jukebox, Hedley doesn’t hesitate. “I just want people to remember they have feelings, and that they’re valid,” he says. “Not everything is Coors Light and tailgates. There are other aspects of life that aren’t so great that people experience. They’re part of life, part of what shapes people. And that’s worth noting.”
NEW COUNTRY STAR JOSHUA HEDLEY
PREMIERES “WEIRD THOUGHT THINKER” VIDEO
EXCLUSIVELY ON APPLE MUSIC
EPIC WORLD TOUR CONTINUES THROUGH NOVEMBER
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DEBUT ALBUM MR. JUKEBOX
AVAILABLE NOW FROM THIRD MAN RECORDS
Third Man recording artist Joshua Hedley has announced Apple Music’s exclusive premiere of his latest video, “Weird Thought Thinker,” streaming HERE. “Weird Thought Thinker” is but one of the many highlights found on Hedley’s critically acclaimed debut album, MR. JUKEBOX, available now via Third Man for streaming and download HERE.
Directed by actor/filmmaker Travis Nicholson (CMT’s Still The King) and edited by Josh Shreeve & Jason Denton, “Weird Thought Thinker” is a phantasmagorical fever dream inspired by the works of such visionary directors as David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Kenneth Anger. Equal parts surrealist western and psychedelic road movie, the video was shot in a variety of vivid locations, including Pioneertown, CA’s famed Pappy & Harriet’s, Los Angeles’ The Hi-Hat and The Roxy in LA, Indio, CA’s Stagecoach Festival, and various points around California’s Salton Sea and Joshua Tree National Park.
Hedley is currently spending nearly all of his time on the road, with headline dates and festival appearances slated through November including a much-anticipated European tour and his biggest North American shows thus far. For complete details and ticket availability, please visit joshuahedley.com/tour.
AUGUST
25 – Florence, AL – Billy Reid Shindig: Wilson Park
31 – Oslo, Norway – Café Mono
SEPTEMBER
1 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
3 – London, UK – The Old Blue Last
4 – Bristol, UK – The Crofters Rights
6 – Glasgow, UK – Admiral Bar
7 – Gateshead, UK – The Sage Gateshead, Hall 2
9 – Lutterworth, UK – The Long Road Festival
12 – St. Louis, MO – Off Broadway
13 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
14 – Indianapolis, IN – Duke’s Indy
15 – Detroit, MI – Third Man Records Cass Corridor
16 – Toronto, ON – The Drake Hotel
18 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
19 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
20 – Brooklyn, NY – Rough Trade NYC
21 – Washington, DC – Union Stage
22 – Knoxville, TN – The Open Chord
23 – Franklin, TN – Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival
26 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl
28 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle Back Room
29 – Asheville, NC – Grey Eagle
OCTOBER
16 – Kansas City, MO – Knuckleheads
18 – Fort Collins, CO – Fort Collins Armory
19 – Denver, CO – Globe Hall
20 – Salt Lake City, UT – The State Room
22 – Vancouver, BC – Fox Cabaret
23 – Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern
24 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
26 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
27 – Los Angeles, CA – Moroccan Lounge
29 – San Diego, CA – Soda Bar
NOVEMBER
1 – Dallas, TX – Kessler Theater
2 – Austin, TX – Antone’s
3 – Houston, TX – The Heights Theater
4 – Mobile, AL – Callaghan’s Irish Social Club
JUKEBOX is already among the year’s most acclaimed releases of any genre, with Rolling Stone naming it among the “25 Best Country and Americana Albums of 2018 So Far,” writing “Joshua Hedley is a multi-tooled ace: an expert fiddle player, deft songwriter and pristine vocalist. All of those skills are on display onHedley’s superb debut, which embraces not the tired Outlaw-country trend du jour but the often-minimized Countrypolitan sound of Music City past…It’s the juxtaposition of that outsized gruffness with Hedley’s hidden sensitivity that makes the vulnerable, heart-tugging songs of MR. JUKEBOX so affecting.” NPR Musichailed “Hedley’s pristine vocals, unrivaled musicianship, and truly encyclopedic knowledge of country music,” adding. “While many listeners focus on Hedley’s otherworldly vocals (and who could blame folks, with that flawless vibrato), his lyrics are quietly powerful.” “With a voice as clear as a mountain stream and nine originals that could have been written yesterday or 50 years ago, this music will light up any room,” raved American Songwriter. “This sound is so authentic and he owns it with such offhanded charm and confidence that it seems like (Hedley) went to sleep in 1963 and just woke up.” “It’s as pure a country record as any you’ll hear,” raved Paste. “MR. JUKEBOX is proof you can take Hedley out of the country bar, but you’ll never take the country bar out of Hedley.” “Joshua Hedley makes classic, tear-in-my-beer country that sounds like he could’ve come straight from the ’60s era of George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Jim Reeves, Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn,” enthused Brooklyn Vegan, while CMT noted, “Hedley owns a distinctive voice that is dynamic, and his melodies are infectious, making his music accessible to anyone with ears.” “A must-listen for country music fans,” declared The Tennessean as Wide Open Country definitively wrote, “Hedley has proved he’s more than an interpreter of songs. MR. JUKEBOX so encapsulates the spirit of classic country it would sound right at home in, well, a jukebox, spinning right next to Hedley’s heroes.”
With the release of MR. JUKEBOX, Joshua Hedley finally embraces the role he was born to play: this generation’s classic country champion. An accomplished fiddle player, Hedley felt inexplicably drawn toward the instrument as a child. He got his hands on his own fiddle at age 8, and by 12, he was playing with middle-aged pickers at the VFW. At 19, he moved from his native Florida to Nashville, where he became an in-demand sideman at Robert’s Western World and other bars, and ultimately, a well-respected frontman. Armed with an easy croon and prodigious fiddle playing, he became known as the Mayor of Lower Broad. He hit the road to perform with artists including Jonny Fritz, Justin Townes Earle, and more, while the 2015 documentary Heartworn Highways Revisited featured Hedley prominently.
Though increasing acclaimed as a performer, Hedley started writing in his late 20s, eventually unlocking a flood of clarity and creativity. The heartbreaking, distilled, defiantly classic country that poured out of him became MR. JUKEBOX, a salve and beacon for honky-tonk devotees everywhere.
Produced by Skylar Wilson and Jordan Lehning, MR. JUKEBOX features nine original songs – including the recent single/videos “Mr. Jukebox” and “I Never (Shed A Tear)” – as well as a striking version of the Walt Disney standard, “When You Wish Upon A Star.” In addition to Hedley on vocals and fiddle, the album features Eddie Lange on steel guitar/guitar, Steelism’s Jeremy Fetzer on guitar/baritone guitar, Michael Rinne on bass, Jon Radford on drums/percussion, and Micah Hulscher on piano/organ.
“It’s not a throwback,” says Hedley. “It sounds new because it is new, and it sounds the way it sounds because it’s the only thing I know how to do. I can’t write a song that sounds different. Classic country is like a suit. Nothing about a men’s suit has changed in like 100 years. Classic never goes out of style. Something can’t be a throwback if it’s never been out of style.”
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NEW COUNTRY STAR JOSHUA HEDLEY’S
“WEIRD THOUGHT THINKER” VIDEO
NOW ON YOUTUBE
EPIC WORLD TOUR CONTINUES THROUGH NOVEMBER
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DEBUT ALBUM MR. JUKEBOX
AVAILABLE NOW FROM THIRD MAN RECORDS
Third Man recording artist Joshua Hedley’s video for “Weird Thought Thinker” is now available to view onYouTube. “Weird Thought Thinker” is but one of the many highlights found on Hedley’s critically acclaimed debut album, MR. JUKEBOX, available now via Third Man for streaming and download HERE.
Directed by actor/filmmaker Travis Nicholson (CMT’s Still The King) and edited by Josh Shreeve & Jason Denton, “Weird Thought Thinker” is a phantasmagorical fever dream inspired by the works of such visionary directors as David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Kenneth Anger. Equal parts surrealist western and psychedelic road movie, the video was shot in a variety of vivid locations, including Pioneertown, CA’s famed Pappy & Harriet’s, Los Angeles’ The Hi-Hat and The Roxy in LA, Indio, CA’s Stagecoach Festival, and various points around California’s Salton Sea and Joshua Tree National Park.
Hedley is currently spending nearly all of his time on the road, with headline dates and festival appearances slated through November including a much-anticipated European tour and his biggest North American shows thus far. For complete details and ticket availability, please visit joshuahedley.com/tour.
AUGUST
25 – Florence, AL – Billy Reid Shindig: Wilson Park
31 – Oslo, Norway – Café Mono
SEPTEMBER
1 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
3 – London, UK – The Old Blue Last
4 – Bristol, UK – The Crofters Rights
6 – Glasgow, UK – Admiral Bar
7 – Gateshead, UK – The Sage Gateshead, Hall 2
9 – Lutterworth, UK – The Long Road Festival
12 – St. Louis, MO – Off Broadway
13 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
14 – Indianapolis, IN – Duke’s Indy
15 – Detroit, MI – Third Man Records Cass Corridor
16 – Toronto, ON – The Drake Hotel
18 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
19 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
20 – Brooklyn, NY – Rough Trade NYC
21 – Washington, DC – Union Stage
22 – Knoxville, TN – The Open Chord
23 – Franklin, TN – Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival
26 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl
28 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle Back Room
29 – Asheville, NC – Grey Eagle
OCTOBER
16 – Kansas City, MO – Knuckleheads
18 – Fort Collins, CO – Fort Collins Armory
19 – Denver, CO – Globe Hall
20 – Salt Lake City, UT – The State Room
22 – Vancouver, BC – Fox Cabaret
23 – Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern
24 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
26 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
27 – Los Angeles, CA – Moroccan Lounge
29 – San Diego, CA – Soda Bar
NOVEMBER
1 – Dallas, TX – Kessler Theater
2 – Austin, TX – Antone’s
3 – Houston, TX – The Heights Theater
4 – Mobile, AL – Callaghan’s Irish Social Club
JOSHUA HEDLEY’S RECORD STORE DAY RELEASE
“BROKEN MAN” B/W “SINGIN’ A NEW SONG”
AVAILABLE NOW ON BLACK VINYL AND AT DIGITAL RETAIL
VIA THIRD MAN RECORDS
WORLD TOUR CONTINUES THROUGH NOVEMBER
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DEBUT ALBUM MR. JUKEBOX
AVAILABLE NOW FROM THIRD MAN RECORDS
Third Man recording artist Joshua Hedley is proud to give a wide release to “Broken Man” b/w “Singin’ A New Song,” his Record Store Day 7″. Previously only available on mahogany vinyl, this 7″ is now available on black vinyl and at all digital retailers. Listen and purchase online HERE.
“I really liked the idea of making a short 10 song record,” Hedley said. “Most of my favorite records are 10 songs. I’m not really an album guy, and the kind of music I make lends itself more to singles, so I wanted to make sure listening to this record wasn’t a chore. These are two songs we pulled from the EP and when we put together the best 10 songs these were 11 and 12. But they aren’t throwaways, they’re good songs and we wanted people to hear them. So…..here they are.”
“I think Joshua Hedley has one of the best voices of the new singers out there, ” country music legend Bobby Bare said. “He’s got that edge like Don Williams and Jim Reeves and I’m a big fan. I highly recommend this new song and everything he has released.”
Hedley is currently spending nearly all of his time on the road, with headline dates and festival appearances slated through November including a much-anticipated European tour and his biggest North American shows thus far. For complete details and ticket availability, please visit joshuahedley.com/tour.
AUGUST
31 – Oslo, Norway – Café Mono
SEPTEMBER
1 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
3 – London, UK – The Old Blue Last
4 – Bristol, UK – The Crofters Rights
6 – Glasgow, UK – Admiral Bar
7 – Gateshead, UK – The Sage Gateshead, Hall 2
9 – Lutterworth, UK – The Long Road Festival
12 – St. Louis, MO – Off Broadway
13 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
14 – Indianapolis, IN – Duke’s Indy
15 – Detroit, MI – Third Man Records Cass Corridor
16 – Toronto, ON – Rivoli
18 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
19 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
20 – Brooklyn, NY – Rough Trade NYC
21 – Washington, DC – Union Stage
22 – Knoxville, TN – The Open Chord
23 – Franklin, TN – Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival
26 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl
28 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle Back Room
29 – Asheville, NC – Grey Eagle
OCTOBER
11 – Thornbury, Victoria, AUS – Australian Americana Music Honours
12 – Brisbane, Queensland, AUS – Lefty’s Old Time Music Hall
13 – Melbourne, Victoria, AUS – Out On The Weekend 2018
16 – Kansas City, MO – Knuckleheads
18 – Fort Collins, CO – Fort Collins Armory
19 – Denver, CO – Globe Hall
20 – Salt Lake City, UT – The State Room
22 – Vancouver, BC – Fox Cabaret
23 – Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern
24 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
26 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
27 – Los Angeles, CA – Moroccan Lounge
29 – San Diego, CA – Soda Bar
NOVEMBER
1 – Dallas, TX – Kessler Theater
2 – Austin, TX – Antone’s
3 – Houston, TX – The Heights Theater
4 – Mobile, AL – Callaghan’s Irish Social Club
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JOSHUA HEDLEY SHARES “BROKEN MAN” SOLO ACOUSTIC VIDEO FROM YOUTUBE’S NASHVILLE POP-UP LIVE SESSIONS PREMIERED VIA AMERICAN SONGWRITER
WORLD TOUR CONTINUES THROUGH NOVEMBER
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DEBUT ALBUM MR. JUKEBOX
AVAILABLE NOW FROM THIRD MAN RECORDS
WATCH “BROKEN MAN” SOLO ACOUSTIC VIDEO
Third Man recording artist Joshua Hedley is excited to share a solo acoustic video for “Broken Man,” his Record Store Day single recently given a wide vinyl release. The clip, which was filmed in Nashville for YouTube’s Pop-Up Live Sessions earlier this year, premiered via American Songwriter, who said that it “brings a new level of intimacy to the already vulnerable song.” The video is now available to watch HERE.
“‘Broken Man’ is one of the more intimate songs on the record,” Hedley says. “It’s confessional. Not sure why I decided to detail such a private moment, but I don’t know, here it is I guess.”
Hedley is currently spending nearly all of his time on the road in support of his new release Mr. Jukebox, with headline dates and festival appearances slated through November including a much-anticipated European tour and his biggest North American shows thus far. For complete details and ticket availability, please visit joshuahedley.com/tour.
SEPTEMBER
26 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl
28 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle Back Room
29 – Asheville, NC – Grey Eagle
OCTOBER
11 – Thornbury, Victoria, AUS – Australian Americana Music Honours
12 – Brisbane, Queensland, AUS – Lefty’s Old Time Music Hall
13 – Melbourne, Victoria, AUS – Out On The Weekend 2018
16 – Kansas City, MO – Knuckleheads
18 – Fort Collins, CO – Fort Collins Armory
19 – Denver, CO – Globe Hall
20 – Salt Lake City, UT – The State Room
22 – Vancouver, BC – Fox Cabaret
23 – Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern
24 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
26 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
27 – Los Angeles, CA – Moroccan Lounge
29 – San Diego, CA – Soda Bar
NOVEMBER
1 – Dallas, TX – Kessler Theater
2 – Austin, TX – Antone’s
3 – Houston, TX – The Heights Theater
4 – Mobile, AL – Callaghan’s Irish Social Club
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JOSHUA HEDLEY SHARES NEW SONG “I MISS SPENDING CHRISTMAS WITH YOU,” AN AMAZON ORIGINAL
OPENED FOR JACK WHITE AT BRIDGESTONE ARENA IN NASHVILLE LAST WEEK
CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED DEBUT ALBUM MR. JUKEBOX AVAILABLE NOW FROM THIRD MAN RECORDS
“While many listeners focus on Hedley’s otherworldly vocals (and who could blame folks, with that flawless vibrato), his lyrics are quietly powerful.” |
“Joshua Hedley’s new CD is lights out.” – Stone Cold Steve Austin
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“Hedley’s got a voice that could sing the phonebook and make it sound like a Sixties gem straight from Billy Sherrill’s lost 1960s archives…” |
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“With a voice as clear as a mountain stream and nine originals that could have been written yesterday or 50 years ago, this music will light up any room.”
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“…It’s as pure a country record as any you’ll hear… Mr. Jukebox is proof that you can take Hedley out of the country bar, but you’ll never take the country bar out of Hedley.”
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Third Man recording artist Joshua Hedley is excited to share “I Miss Spending Christmas With You,” a new Christmas song released today as an Amazon Original. Hear the song HERE. “Christmas has always been my favorite time of year,” Hedley said. “I love Christmas songs. I also love sad country songs. I wanted to do sort of a blue-eyed soul take on a classic country theme, like Charlie Rich singin’ a sad Christmas song.”
HEAR “I MISS SPENDING CHRISTMAS WITH YOU”
Hedley has had a banner year — in addition to releasing his acclaimed debut album Mr. Jukebox on Third Man Records in April, he spent much of the year on the road, with headline dates and festival appearances in the United States, Europe and Australia. Just last week, he opened for Jack White at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena with Margo Price. For details on Joshua’s upcoming performances, please visit joshuahedley.com/tour.
A Florida native, Hedley felt inexplicably drawn toward the fiddle as a child. He first asked for one at age 3. His mom listened to Neil Diamond and his dad listened to Otis Redding — they didn’t see the request coming — but when he asked again five years later, they were struck by the longing’s staying power and, at 8 years-old, he finally got his hands on his very own instrument. He went on to perform at the local VFW and American Legion and, at 12, joined his first band. His bandmates were in their 40s. Around the same time, Hedley visited Nashville with his parents and immediately knew that he belonged. At 19, he made the move and began sneaking into Robert’s Western World–too young to drink legally and too wild to care. Hedley went on to become a featured performer and in-demand sideman at the now legendary spot and, ultimately, a well-respected frontman. Armed with an easy croon and prodigious fiddle playing, he became known by peers as the Mayor of Lower Broad. In the years since, he’s performed with artists including Jonny Fritz, Justin Townes Earle and more and was featured prominently in the 2015 documentary, Heartworn Highways Revisited.
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