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Artist
Josh Dorr
12+ albums
USAcountry
about
“One of my long-term goals is to keep my sound one step ahead of the rest; I want to be what everyone else is chasing,” and with that in mind, 25-year-old singer/songwriter and Nashville recording artist Josh Dorr hit the ground running with a bold and ambitious mindset for the release of his 2014 major-label debut, the four-song Josh Dorr – EP. Produced by Jim Catino, the collection features three songs co-written by Dorr on an EP that underscores the lyric-driven, rock-edged brand of country that Dorr calls his own. The youngest of three brothers, Dorr grew up in a close-knit family in the resource-rich oil and coal-mining city of Gillette, Wyoming, where the wide-open fields and rolling hills also helped to fuel Dorr’s love of sports and the outdoors. Football became his passion in high school and college, initially attracting attention from recruiters until multiple injuries had him rethinking his direction. “I had a gut-check kind of thing, like, ‘Are you gonna keep rehabbing and rehabbing just to get back to where you used to be a year ago?’ And then finally, I just decided it wasn’t for me, and I had to quit,” Dorr recalls, but with an ankle on the mend and time on his hands, he picked up an unused guitar that he’d been given a few years earlier. “I just started playin’, tryin’ to learn some chords, and that’s when my friend put me in this college talent show. My first time playing for anyone – I was too shy to even play in front of my friends or my mom – and I pla
