Familiar with the Youtube platform, posting covers and original tunes since early 2008, Josh Turner’s solo debut out of folk duo The Other Favorites, has lived up beautifully to my expectations. Maintaining the early 70s flavour of Simon and Garfunkel, Nick Drake and Dylan, Turner brings his own musical idiosyncrasies into an album recorded and produced at his home studio in New York City. The final mixes are indistinguishable from works coming out of professional recording studios, a massive testament not only to his compositional ear, but his talent for treating audio. We get tasty bass licks and spoken narrative passages on 'I Do, I think' with jazzy piano interludes, suite-like classical guitar progressions and cadenced violin motifs on 'Trivia', and gut-wrenching lyricism on 'That Tired Dream'; "you must know that time makes fools of us all". As Good a Place as Any is musically complex yet unpretentious in its realisation. There’s a massive breadth of music here, absent of awkward jarring by way of logical track listing; you’ll finish it with a smile on your face. Josh Turner is one to watch in the independent folk scene.
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