Pre-Order: Joshua Ray Walker – Ain’t Dead Yet

Singer/Songwriter Joshua Ray Walkers made a name for himself with poignant, human portraits of flawed, fascinating characters. Now, on his latest album, Aint Dead Yet, Walkers telling a more personal story his own.

Human beings are super multi-faceted, and part of the reason I wrote about characters in the first place was because I could explore things about myself that I didn’t feel comfortable exploring if I were to admit that it was really about me, Walker says. All my songs are about parts of me, I just didn’t try to stick them on another fictional character this time.

Beneath the albums flippant title resides some of Walkers heaviest storytelling yet. Three years ago, when he started writing Aint Dead Yet (his sixth studio album, to be released May 29 via Thirty Tigers/East Dallas Records), Walker hadnt yet received the cancer diagnosis that rearranged and threatened his life (he currently has a clean bill of health). But that year w