New album from Joshua Ketchmark

Nashville-based artist Joshua Ketchmark is a truly prolific singer-songwriter of Americana music. Since 2008 when he shared his debut album List of Regrets, he’s gone on to release a further nine full-lengths, with his most recent record titled Blood following last year’s The Huntington Hotel.

Written, performed, produced and mixed by the artist himself, his latest album tells the story of his past. Inspired by true events, the stories captured on Blood are based on reality with the title influenced not just by the lyrical subjects but also by those who were involved in the creation of the release.

A large part of the songwriting for Blood occurred towards the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019 with recording starting in the spring of 2020 across various studios in California, Arizona, Georgia and Tennessee. The finishing touches and final mixes were completed at Joshua Ketchmark’s Black Gold Speakeasy studio in his hometown of Nashville and mastered by Michael Bozzi at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood.

Featuring a host of talented musicians across the album, Blood is graced by the likes of Black Star Riders dummer Zak St. John, bass player Ger Hoffman and Michael Webb laying down the majority of the piano and organ tracks. Additional instrumentation came courtesy of Tony Paoletta on lap steel, Sadler Vaden playing guitar on two thirds of the tracks and Nick Nguyen adding banjo and viola flair.

Backed up by groups of backup vocal harmonies, Joshua Ketchmark ties together the collection of contributing musicians on his stunning new album. Released to critical acclaim, it’s little wonder that the album has received radio support from more than 130 radio stations throughout the USA and Canada, with the artist sharing a career-defining record of timeless Americana music.

Listen to Blood below