{"product_id":"joshua-hedley-neon-blue-lp-vinyl","title":"Joshua Hedley – Neon Blue (LP Vinyl)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"relix-editorial\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoshua Hedley came up the hard way, spending years as a fixture on the Nashville honky-tonk circuit long before a record deal entered the picture, sharpening his chops night after night in the kind of rooms where the jukebox is the competition. That apprenticeship in real-time, real-stakes country music is exactly what separates him from the retro-revivalist pack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size:10pt\"\u003eJoshua Hedley is “a singing professor of country \u0026amp; western,” he declares on his raucous and witty new album, Neon Blue. It might sound like a punchline, but it’s not. An ace fiddle player, a sharp guitarist, and a singer with a granite twang, he’s devoted his entire life to the study of this genre. Ask him about it and he’ll explain: “When all my friends went off to college, I went to Nashville. I was 19 years old playing honkytonks and getting an education.” His 2018 debut, Mr. Jukebox, showcased his deep knowledge of country’s history, in particular the beery ballads of the 1950s and ‘60s. His mentors were George Jones, Ray Price, and Glen Campbell, but his most remarkable accomplishment was putting his own spin on their style.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNeon Blue, on the other hand, examines a very different, often forsaken era: the early 1990s. “The last bastion of country music,” says the professor, “was the early 1990s, roughly 1989 and 1996. You could turn on the radio and immediately know you’re hearing a country song. You could still hear steel guitar and fiddle. But there was a hard fork around 1996 or ’97, when country veered off into pop territory. Neon Blue asks, What if that fork had never happened? What if country kept on sounding like country?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThat era may have been dismissed by traditionalists at the time as slick or overproduced, but Hedley finds something exciting in that old hat-act sound, and Neon Blue plays up the excitement of bigger-than-life choruses, the relatable emotions of those sad-eyed ballads, and the inventiveness of the lively production. “The sound is modern,” he says, “but it’s still discernibly country.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003c!-- TRACKLIST_START --\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTracklist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSide A\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1. Broke Again\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2. Country \u0026amp; Western\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3. Old Heartbroken Blues\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4. The Last Thing In The World\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e5. Down To My Last Lie\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e6. Free\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSide B\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1. Neon Blue\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2. Bury Me With My Boots On\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3. Found In A Bar\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4. Lat's Make A Memory\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e5. Wonder If You Wonder\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e6. River In The Rain\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- TRACKLIST_END --\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 607396560615\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e New West Records\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 4.22.22\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e LP Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Broadtime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48669956341915,"sku":"308577","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/7172\/files\/packshot-joshua-hedley-neon-blue-vinyl-lp-relix.jpg?v=1781123300","url":"https:\/\/relix.shop\/products\/joshua-hedley-neon-blue-lp-vinyl","provider":"relix.shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}