Joseph Bradshaw

Joseph Bradshaw is a Nashville-based songwriter and guitarist who has been part of a number of musical outfits over the past two decades, including <a href="spotify:artist:0BwyGAwOjUIQK9NuS8PbPO" data-name="Gasoline Heart">Gasoline Heart</a>, The Silver Fleece, and The Duquesnes. His three previous studio albums—<a href="spotify:album:0HgmpQx6CcVyoboflfDvH4" data-name="Yucca Gold">Yucca Gold</a> (LP with John Spiker and <a href="spotify:artist:2TvVB6B050Aj5y2Hk4H84z" data-name="James McAlister">James McAlister</a>, 2016), <a href="spotify:album:6P939E5N1zNI9x4BUB0KYQ" data-name="On Record">On Record</a> (LP produced by Mark Pontius, 2017), and <a href="spotify:album:7m2Q1aAibrUx1WuLmrdP5q" data-name="San Gabriel River">San Gabriel River</a> (EP with <a href="spotify:artist:2R76tAeGMGgPxwNXKTDpkW" data-name="Natalie Nicoles">Natalie Nicoles</a>, 2016)–each feature Bradshaw’s distinct vocal and poignant lyrics. In 2017, he released the single, ‘<a href="spotify:album:3pBguFB3EEVNaviKjhhEDf" data-name="Wait Till After Christmas">Wait Till After Christmas</a>,’ a duet with <a href="spotify:artist:2kWeFaiHBskk8oqky3KHcR" data-name="Nikki Lane">Nikki Lane</a>, produced by Kyle Ryan.
 
Bradshaw’s most recent album, Trouble Is (2022), is the artist’s most mature work to date. Built on a foundation of steady rhythms and gospel keys, each of the eleven songs on Trouble Is explore themes of morality and mortality. ‘These songs,’ says Bradshaw, ‘are about living and dying and the colorful ways that we search for salvation. In the end, I guess it’s like this: life is filled with heartbreak and nothing lasts forever. And somehow that’s hopeful even when it’s sad.’
 
The album was mixed, produced, and recorded by TJ Elias (<a href="spotify:artist:4w1ZBtHF0HxrGqQdB7i1it" data-name="Jamestown Revival">Jamestown Revival</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5wFXmYsg3KFJ8BDsQudJ4f" data-name="Manchester Orchestra">Manchester Orchestra</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3kVUvbeRdcrqQ3oHk5hPdx" data-name="GROUPLOVE">GROUPLOVE</a>) at Big Trouble Studio in Little Five Points (Atlanta) with ‘The Florida Four,’ a band made up of longtime Bradshaw collaborators Abe Couch, Greg Perkins, Andy Simonds, and Dylon York. All songs on Trouble Is were written by Joseph Bradshaw, with contributions from Kyle Ryan, Casey Chambers, and <a href="spotify:artist:435UmkDo0uchwmDeHdKWGN" data-name="Sandra McCracken">Sandra McCracken</a>.

-Austin Sailsbury, 2022