What Is It Even? - 2023 US Joshua Ray Walker Label Pink Vinyl 11-track LP

Joshua Ray Walker announces NEW RECORD “What Is It Even?” - lending his signature altcountry style to iconic pop songs - paying homage
to female-identified powerhouse vocalists and their influence on global culture. Launching with his reimagination of Lizzo’s “Cuz I Love You,”
Walker pushes himself and his band to respectfully and artfully build a bridge between two seemingly polar styles of music.
The catalyst of Joshua Ray Walker’s new album, What Is It Even?, was sparked on the patio of the Tulsa, Oklahoma music venue and dive bar
Mercury Lounge, a fitting origin story for any country record. But this is far from an ordinary country record. It was on that Tulsa patio, deep
into tour, when Walker and drummer Trey Pendergrass were half joking about what their gospel jump blues version of Whitney Houston’s “I
Wanna Dance With Somebody” would sound like, wondering “what if the Blues Brothers covered a Whitney Houston song?”
At that point, it was still unclear how the Dallas native would follow up his trio of critically acclaimed, interconnected albums, all of which
were packed tight with character-driven songs that put multiple national-tours worth of crowds on the precipice of staining their shirts with
either beers or tears, depending on the song. The third of the trio, See You Next Time, led to Walker appearing on The Tonight Show and
CBS Saturday Morning, brought with it performances at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville and Gruene Hall in Texas, landed him on Rolling
Stone’s “Best of 2021” list, and prompted SPIN to call him “one of country’s most exciting storytellers.

Tracklisting.

1. Cuz I Love You (Lizzo)
2. Linger feat Kyle Gass of Tenacious D (The Cranberries)
3. I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Whitney Houston)
4. Believe (Cher)
5. Cheap Thrills (Sia)
6. Blue (LeAnn Rimes)
7. Goodbye Horses (Q Lazarus)
8. Nothing Compares 2 U (Sinead O’Connor)
9. Joshua (Dolly Parton)
10.Halo (Beyonce)
11.Samson (Regina Spektor)