Nashville-based singer, songwriter, guitar and piano player who just put out a new single three-and-a-half weeks ago. That was his fifth release of 2026, and his busy year will continue next month when he performs at a benefit in West Chester, Ohio. That follows shows he has done this year in the likes of Michigan, Las Vegas, and, of course, Nashville. He first came into the public consciousness on Season 15 of “American Idol,” and has gone on to a career that has grown to a single that he released late last year earning prominent placements on Apple Music’s New in Country and Spotify’s All New Country. Meanwhile, he has gotten over 2.6 million combined video views on his official YouTube channel, plus he has a music video that has gotten 3.6 million streams on Spotify, where he has 189 thousand monthly listeners.
“I'm just blessed and grateful to get to see everybody out there especially on the internet making videos and posting videos and then dancing out at their country bars with the friends to (his song).”
“When I write songs… I just kind of pick a group of friends to sit down in a room with and have a good time. We laugh, we crack jokes and music comes out of that that we try to keep fun and stuff.”
“When you go in to produce you always want to let the musicians be musicians because Nashville's full of the best of the best.”
“I grew up a preacher's kid. My dad was a traveling evangelist preacher. We’d travel to all kinds of different churches. I would play on the piano and sing, and my mom would lead worship and sing and my brother would play guitar and sing as well and then dad would come out and preach and that was my childhood, singing a lot of the old hymnals and playing them on the piano.”
“When I first found country music it was like a bolt of lightning struck me in the chest and it was like, ‘Man, that's what you're supposed to do’. I just fell in love with the sound. I fell in love with the culture, everything of it.”
“I think my voice developed a little backwards. Like when I was younger, it was only lower notes really. I didn't have much of a mid-range or high range. So, artists like Johnny Cash were great for me to learn because I can sing it without having to move the key.”
“There's also a little bit of me that is I guess conflicted in a way with some of the things I sing but music is music and storytelling is storytelling and I still land on that.”
“I think when you get to heaven, it's a four- to five-piece band with an upright bass and mandolin and a fiddle, and it's one of the greats singing all your gospel songs, all those old hymnals.”
“A couple years ago I had left my record label. I'd parted ways from my old label that I released my initial EP with. And parted ways with my publishing company. Parted ways with my management and hired new management. And so, I had a big change in the team room of everything.”
“I'm a big advocate on if you think something's good and you believe it's good and you think it's great, then forget about everything else. Do what you feel is great and record that music and release that music.”
“I wish I could grab the younger me five years ago, fresh into a record deal, in Nashville not knowing what I was doing. I wish I could grab that Josiah by the shoulders and shake them around 50 times and tell them, ‘Trust your gut’.”
“I took a couple years off. I wasn't angry. I wasn't spiteful. I wasn't bitter, but I needed a reset button.”
“The line before the first chorus – and the second course – and the line before the hook at the end of the chorus, those are the two most important lines in the song, as well as the hook.”
“I met, through a mutual friend, Mark Miller from Sawyer Brown, the frontman of the awesome 90s country band. And Mark Miller and his brother Frank Miller, who manages Sawyer Brown, they signed me as management and helped me get my first record deal and helped develop me as an artist in my younger years in Nashville.”
“Do Si Dough”
“Payin’ Bills”