{"id":62091,"date":"2016-12-08T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=62091"},"modified":"2016-12-08T07:00:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T13:00:40","slug":"josh-turner-perform-hometown-girl-on-opry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/08\/josh-turner-perform-hometown-girl-on-opry\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Turner Performs Hometown Girl at the Opry"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62092\" src=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/12\/joshturner001.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"joshturner001\" width=\"750\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/joshturner001.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/joshturner001-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/joshturner001-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/joshturner001-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>Exclusive Premiere: Watch Josh Turner Perform <\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>\u201cHometown Girl\u201d on the Grand Ole Opry Stage<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>In May, traditional-leaning country crooner Josh Turner delighted his fans by releasing \u201cHometown Girl,\u201d his first single in nearly two years. The new tune, which was penned by Mark Beeson and Daniel Tashian, is expected to appear on Josh\u2019s upcoming sixth studio album.<\/p>\n<p>Josh, a family man in his own right with wife Jennifer and four sons, was drawn to \u201cHometown Girl\u201d and its message of family and tradition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love the third verse where it talks about <em>Her mamma\u2019s mamma was born right here, and her roots run deeper than that old town square<\/em>,\u201d says Josh. \u201cThere\u2019s a heritage there, there\u2019s a tradition there, there\u2019s a family lineage there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On August 30, Josh took his message of family to the Grand Ole Opry, where he performed \u201cHometown Girl\u201d for the Opry faithful. Since debuting on the Opry stage in 2001\u2014and being inducted in 2007\u2014Josh has become a regular favorite of the Opry family.<\/p>\n<p>During his three-song set, Josh performed his No. 1 hit \u201cAll Over Me,\u201d \u201cLong Black Train\u201d and \u201cHometown Girl,\u201d which is currently No. 28 on <em>Billboard\u2019<\/em>s Country Airplay chart.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video premiere of Josh\u2019s \u201cHometown Girl\u201d on the Opry stage.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S8S_dA7EcCI?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=transparent]<\/div>\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8211; NashCountryDaily<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-445260\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-445260 themify_builder themify_builder_front\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive Premiere: Watch Josh Turner Perform \u201cHometown Girl\u201d on the Grand Ole Opry Stage In May, traditional-leaning country crooner Josh Turner delighted his fans by releasing \u201cHometown Girl,\u201d his first single in nearly two years. The new tune, which was penned by Mark Beeson and Daniel Tashian, is expected to appear on Josh\u2019s upcoming sixth studio album. Josh, a family man in his own right with wife Jennifer and four sons, was drawn to \u201cHometown Girl\u201d and its message of family and tradition. \u201cI love the third verse where it<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/08\/josh-turner-perform-hometown-girl-on-opry\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}