Joshua Ray Walker

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Joshua Ray Walker “Ain’t Dead Yet” Tour w/ Cecilia Castleman Sunday, October 11, 2026 Charleston Pour House | Main Stage 7pm doors / 8pm show $20 advance / $25 day of show Joshua Ray Walker Singer/Songwriter Joshua Ray Walker’s made a name for himself with poignant, human portraits of flawed, fascinating characters. Now, on his latest album, Ain’t Dead Yet, Walker’s 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 album’s flippant title resides some of Walker’s heaviest storytelling yet. Three years ago, when he started writing Ain’t Dead Yet (his sixth studio album, to be released May 29 via Thirty Tigers/East Dallas Records), Walker hadn’t yet received the cancer diagnosis that rearranged and threatened his life (he currently has a clean bill of health). But that year was still uncommonly fraught with mental, physical, and career stresses. Pulling the songs out of the can to finalize them for the album – including re-writing and re-working almost all the songs – Walker, who was then undergoing and recovering from cancer treatment, was surprised by their prescience. “That whole year I just felt awful and like I was dying. I didn’t feel right, and mentally I was off, like there really was something wrong the whole time,” Walker says. “So I think the reason some of these songs feel the way they do is because I felt that way, even though I didn’t know something was wrong yet.” “Memory lane is a freeway now,” Walker sings on “Chasing Sunsets,” a cinematic Laurel Canyon sound-inspired song all about the unease in life’s liminal moments. The idea came to Walker while chasing the last of the…

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