{"id":2313527,"date":"2026-03-05T07:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2313527"},"modified":"2026-03-05T07:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:39:18","slug":"joshua-ray-walker-cheats-death-to-record-new-album-aint-dead-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/joshua-ray-walker-cheats-death-to-record-new-album-aint-dead-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Ray Walker Cheats Death to Record New Album \u201cAin\u2019t Dead Yet\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After receiving a serious Cancer diagnosis in 2023, it could have been the end of the road for Joshua Ray Walker\u2019s life and music. We still would have cherished the trilogy of albums he released to commence his country music career: Wish You Were Here<\/em> (2019), Glad You Made It<\/em> (2020), and See You Next Time<\/em> (2021). But Walker fans hoped this would just be the beginning of a great catalog of country, not the end. <\/p>

Lucky for us, Joshua Ray Walker has received the all-clear, even if it came with a very dire misdiagnosis<\/a> in-between. But even amid Cancer treatment and terminal diagnoses, Walker did everything he could to squeeze out as much music as possible, just in case his time left was finite. This has now resulted in a second trilogy of albums, all that are intertwined with Walker\u2019s health journey, and coming to grips with mortality. <\/p>

The first was the surprisingly fun and light-hearted Tropicana<\/em> (June 2025) that still has us singing the chorus to the ultra-catchy \u201cKeys To The Tacoma.\u201d Then there was the much more solemn, sparse, and avant-garde Stuff<\/em> (October 2025) that envisioned the world from the perspective of the inanimate objects we leave behind us. <\/p>

Now Joshua Ray Walker is readying the release of the more serious album he was working on before, during, and after his Cancer battle, appropriately titled Ain\u2019t Dead Yet<\/em>. A strong country work with Walker\u2019s dedication to involved songwriting and stellar vocal ability on display, it will be released on May 29th via East Dallas Records\/Thirty Tigers. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Walker started writing songs for the album the year before his Cancer diagnosis. \u201cThat whole year I just felt awful and like I was dying. I didn\u2019t feel right, and mentally I was off, like there really was something wrong the whole time,\u201d<\/em> Walker says. \u201cSo I think the reason some of these songs feel the way they do is because I felt that way, even though I didn\u2019t know something was wrong yet.\u201d<\/em><\/p>

But before he headed into the studio, he re-worked and re-wrote most of the songs. He then set out to record them before, during, and after his treatment for Cancer at studios in Dallas, including Audio Dallas, Modern Electric, and his producer John Pedigo\u2019s home studio.\u00a0<\/p>

\u201cI\u2019m really grateful to have a second chance, and I\u2019m also grateful to have lived through thinking I was going to die. It gives you perspective in a way you really can\u2019t fake until you\u2019ve actually done it; in a way, it was kind of a gift,\u201d <\/em>Walker says. \u201cI\u2019m very intentional with my time, and I\u2019m a lot happier, even though things have been hard, I genuinely do think I\u2019m happier. It\u2019s been a pretty wild transformation.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>

Ahead of the new album, Joshua Ray Walker has released the song \u201cCapital Letters\u201d (listen below). Ain\u2019t Dead Yet<\/em> out May 29th is now available for pre-order<\/a><\/strong> and pre-save<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>

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1. Ain\u2019t Dead Yet2. Shoot Me Straight3. Chasing Sunsets4. Outlaw5. Capital Letters6. Texas Sober7. Blue Genes8. Stepping Stone9. Some People10. Thank You For Listening<\/p>\n\n\n\n