★★★★★
Oh, the voice. Turner returns on Everything is Fine with the same deep-down drawl that had the girls a swoonin' over Your Man back in 2006. Yup, he's still got the vocal equivalent of an easy swagger, and he still knows how to use it. But Everything is best when Turner drops the good-ol'-boy bit and admits "fine" isn't the only way things can go...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Josh Turner's fifth album, Punching Bag, opens with a Michael Buffer "Let's get ready to rumble" introduction of Turner as a country music fighting superstar, leading into the album's fastest-paced song, the title track. The gist of the song is that he's a punching bag who you can beat up and he'll take it. He'll take every barb, punch, and breakup. But watch it--when you least expect it, he'll punch you back, just like...a punching bag does...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-06-21
★★★★★
Boxing announcer Michael Buffer bellows his signature "Let's get ready to rumble!" as an introduction to country singer Josh Turner's fifth album, Punching Bag, suggesting that perhaps the doggedly modest singer has recorded something with a bit more fight to it. That quickly proves not to be the case, as Turner settles back into a comfortable and familiar style that balances traditional country conventions with slickly modern recording techniques...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2012-06-14
★★★★★
Throughout his career, Josh Turner has found success with a mixture of faith-based songs, feel-good songs and romantic songs that used his resonant baritone to maximum effect. All of these types of songs can be found on Punching Bag, an album that finds Turner's name on eight of the 12 tracks. The other four trackscome (in various combinations) from award-winning and platinum songwriters like Chris Stapleton, Lee Thomas Miller, Mark Nesler, Tim Menzies and Tom Shapiro...
- www.roughstock.com
2012-06-14
★★★★★
Though 2006 has only just begun, it's not to soon to speculate that Josh Turner's "Your Man" might turn out to be the best mainstream country album of the year. Turner makes good on the promise of his platinum-selling debut, 2003's "Long Black Train," in a big way with this sophomore outing. It's been a long time since any artist merged traditional country and what radio stations call "young country" as well as Turner does here...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
The finest male voice on country radio is back with his first record in over two years. His last release, Everything is Fine went gold and saw him expanding his boundaries, experimenting with R&B and Celtic music. So Josh Turner had a lot to live up to on his fourth album. Haywire starts off strong with infectious escapist tune "Why Don't We Just Dance," a single that recently cracked the Top 10. From there, the record is one love song after another...
- www.the9513.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
While country music has seen the mainstream 'big tent' get larger over the last few decades, the genre has always found a way to keep a couple of traditional-minded artists at the forefront and that's exactly where we find Josh Turner...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
At his finest, Josh Turner, 30, is a country Barry White: a smooth loverman whose depth-sounder bass-baritone holds the promise of till-death-do-us-part fidelity and till-da-break-a-dawn carnal heroism. His third album has two supreme boudoir moments: the syrupy "Soulmate" (rhymes with "I'll wait") and "The Longer the Waiting (the Sweeter the Kiss)," which extols the merits of delayed gratification over a Celtic-tinged waltz complete with bagpipes...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
"American Honey" is the name of Lady Antebellum's current single, but it could just as well describe Josh Turner's voice. He has one of those deep, supple voices that make people compare it to molasses or honey, and use words like supple. He has never sounded better than on his current hit, "Why Don't We Just Dance". It's a combination of the swinging rhythm and the song's beckoning tone that makes Turner sound so relaxed and in control...
- www.popmatters.com
2010-03-11