Like a trusty set of headlights piercing a late-night, back-street fog, Joe Turley points a high-beam on rock, folk and soul with his latest all-original collection âOver The Horizon.â Turleyâs heartfelt vocals and hope-provoking lyrics front an âexgroova

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Like a trusty set of headlights piercing a late-night, back-street fog, Joe Turley points a high-beam on rock, folk and soul with his latest all-original collection âOver The Horizon.â Turleyâs heartfelt vocals and hope-provoking lyrics front an âexgroovaganzaâ that touches on big-city rock (âYou Make Me Believeâ), Stax R&B (âReal Thingâ), Muscle Shoals soul (âTurn To Me,â âSoul Survivorsâ) and gutsy folk (âPressinâ Onâ). From the wailing sax on âRide With Meâ and the tender double-reed harmonica on âOver the Horizon,â to the greasy slide guitar of âAnywhere But Where I Amâ and the subtle B-3 of âNo Stranger to the Blues,â Joe Turley and team bring you new sounds from an old school.

There are eleven songs on âOver The Horizon,â seven co-written by longtime collaborator/friend Jeff Silbar (Grammy-winning co-writer of âWind Beneath My Wingsâ), including âSoul Survivorsâ and âReal Thing,â which grew out of the pairâs early** Nashville writing sessions.

âThese songs take me back to my roots,â says Turley. "Two of these songs have been around for years. Jeff and I got together, like bandmates and brothers that we were, and re-worked them a little. It was like the days when we were rehearsing above the White Cloud Laundromat. Our heads were back in this place when music had a magic to it--it was fresh and alive with possibilities.â

âIvoryâ Joe Turley has played professional piano, sax, harmonica and guitar for others and has also kept up a steady diet of gigs with his own group, The Midnight Howlers.

As a teenager, Turley was already running around central Kentucky blowing his sax, romancing his âharpâ and burninâ up the piano in juke box joints on the wrong side of the tracks. His grandfather, Daddy Red, was a well-known big-band leader who lovingly left Joe the very sax he plays today. After attending Berklee School of Music in Boston, Joe found himself in Nashville, tightening his piano/harp/sax skills and working around the world with legends like Dolly Parton, Leon Russell, Edgar Winter, Waylon Jennings and Vassar Clements.

Over the most recent years, though, Joe has also explored his own artistic voice. His last CD, the swing-influenced When The Jitterbug Bites, has won many music awards and was featured in the world-watched Parade of Roses. Now with the release of âOver The Horizon,â Joe Turley is ready for his next musical chapter.

âEverything I do is steeped in the blues,â says Turley. âThere are also a lot of spiritual elements on this CD. I didnât consciously try to accomplish that. After the songs were on the table, it ended up like this. Iâm glad that there is mentioning of God and the way I feel about the spiritual side of things. All of these songs were a blast to sing and the players were amazing.â

Check out the music and the full story at joeturley.com and watch for this exciting entertainer on the college and festival circuit this summer. âOver the Horizonâ is overflowing with heart and soul. Itâs a âfeel goodâ CD
with a down-to-Earth, yet Heavenly (ethereal, spiritual, divine?) message. Itâs also an R&B melting pot simmering with songs and sounds that blend black with white, today with yesterday and reality with fantasy.