VIDEO DEBUTS WITH CMT
(Nashville, TN – May 23, 2025) On this Memorial Day Weekend, Josh Turner has released a new music video for “Unsung Hero,” a song from Turner’s 10th MCA Nashville studio album, This Country Music Thing. The video made its broadcast debut on CMT and Paramount’s Times Square Billboard and is now in rotation across CMT Channels. The song, written by Turner, salutes his WW II veteran grandfather – a man of few words who sought even fewer accolades, but left a powerful legacy nevertheless.
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR “UNSUNG HERO” | HERE
“In December 2014, all of the Turner family had a get-together at my uncle’s house,” says Turner. “I asked him if he would show me my granddaddy’s medals and papers. When I got to see them, it had a profound effect on me. I was made aware that he was an American hero and no one really knew about what he had been through. It was clear to me that he was the epitome of an unsung hero. I wrote the song on Aug 27, 2015 as a tribute to him. The fact that it ended up on a record 10 years after I had been allowed to see his stuff is mind blowing to me. It’s also an honor to be able to sing about him in this way because I feel like there are so many others just like him that we don’t know about or have taken for granted. I’m excited I get to share images of him in the video of this song and that it will be released on Memorial Day. God bless all of our troops and veterans who have made the sacrifices necessary for us to enjoy the freedoms that we have.”
About Josh Turner
With timeless songs like “Long Black Train” and “Why Don’t We Just Dance,” Turner’s five No. 1 singles include “Your Man,” of which the official music video surpassed 233 million views. To date, Turner has 5.3B release to date global streams. His album Long Black Train debuted 22 years ago and was certified Platinum by the RIAA with nearly 1.5M album sales, 1.4M track downloads and over 331.2M life-to-date streams. The lead single of the same name was also certified 2X Platinum making up over 1.1M track downloads and over 275.7M global streams. In June 2021, Turner released Your Man Deluxe Edition, celebrating 15 years of Turner’s iconic double Platinum-selling album, as well as the mini documentary “Josh Turner Your Man 15th Anniversary” (Mini Doc). The
certified triple-Platinum selling “Would You Go With Me,” featured on Your Man Deluxe Edition, experienced a viral surge across TikTok leading to a jump in streaming which landed the classic country tune on Spotify’s US Viral 50 along with Spotify Viral charts in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland. A native of South Carolina, Turner has been nominated for three GMA Dove awards and won his first GMA Dove Award in 2021 for “I Saw The Light” featuring Sonya Isaacs, off his I Serve a Savior album. Turner and has been nominated for two GRAMMY Awards, five CMA Awards, two ACM Awards, one CMT Award, seven ACA Awards and has received six Inspirational Country Music Awards. Turner has been awarded the Order of the Palmetto in his home State of South Carolina, the highest civilian honor, (2023) and he has been inducted into the South Carolina Entertainment Hall of Fame (2004). Turner released his first Greatest Hits album in fall of 2023 and is currently crisscrossing America on This Country Music Thing Tour, in support of his recent album of the same name. To support music and arts education, he created The Josh Turner Scholarship Fund for the Arts to help students pursue their studies in these fields. Turner and his wife Jennifer, whom he met as a student at Nashville’s Belmont University, have four sons. For more information, please visit www.joshturner.com.
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