“Missouri” is the latest on a string of excellent singles coming from Dutch musician Joseph Turner alongside his band, The Dudes of Hazzard. After the stunning debut “A New Moon” back in March, Joseph has been expanding the boundaries of his folk and exploring more and more with country and americana, as seen on new song “Missouri”.
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Recorded across the United States as well as the Netherlands, “Missouri” finds Joseph experimenting with new and interesting dynamics. The track starts as a soft americana-tinged ballad, only for then to explode into a sharp southern rock that is both urgent and inviting – and this is fully intentional. Joseph says that “Missouri” is a song about faith and loss, and it’s his most personal song to date, and that the two distinct halves aim to reflect how our own perspective on life and death changes over time.
“It’s a story about trying to make sense of loss, even when there aren’t any easy answers”, the artist himself says about the track. “Missouri” is written from that place of confusion where the struggle of losing someone feel overwhelming, yet not enough. Taking influences from the likes of Bonnie Raitt, John Prine and Sturgill Simpson, the new single from Joseph also sparkles with creativity and remarkable sense of melody.
It’s a track that constantly defies your own relationship with death and grief, standing tall in a place in which the understanding grows just as much as the grief itself. On “Missouri” Joseph manages to expertly capture that feeling through bluesy guitars, nods to classic country and americana; but still looks toward the future – both in sound as well as in lyrics. Joseph firmly places himself as one of the most interesting and original voices in alternative country nowadays, and I cannot wait to listen to his full-length when it finally arrives.
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