Joshua James

At the age of 19, after street skating in and around Lincoln for the better part of his teenage years, Joshua packed his bags and traveled through South America, spending most of his time abroad in Venezuela. The perspective of travel inspired him to start writing poetry and songs upon his return to the U.S. Joshua James launches his delicate, expansive ballads from that foundation in a way which aurally recreates the windy Plains geography of his Lincoln, Nebraska upbringing. Variety calls Joshua “a young Midwestern singer-songwriter who writes hard-bitten songs of family tragedies and sings them in a voice that’s as sun-bleached and wind-battered as a Nebraska cornfield.”