Josh Vincent is an up and coming Toronto based artist who describes his unique country sound as “not quite pop.” we got the opportunity to sit down and ask him about his journey into the industry and what he has planned in his career so far!
Q:What has been your journey in the industry so far?
Josh: “So I started working at a bar in downtown Toronto called Rocking horse, when I was 19, and I didn’t work a lot when I first started, but I spent a lot of time in the bar, hanging out, buddies drinking, spending my nights there, and I ran into a fella. who I actually accidentally mistook for another person that I knew, and we became good friends. His name’s Alan Boynton. He runs an entertainment company, and I one day wrote a couple songs that I thought were good and I asked him if he could help me out, and he said if the songs were good enough, he said, we could work together. So I sent him over a demo that I worked real hard on and took some time with, and then, uh, in mid-April I got the call, Saying that he was gonna try to make me a country artist.”
Q: You’re in the Sauble Beach party emerging, artist showcase, what are you most excited about for that?
Josh: “Honestly, I love Sauble Beach, it’s a place that I spent a lot of time when I was a kid. And it’s just a cool experience, you know, being not even a year into doing the whole music thing, getting the chance to be up on stage with credible artists competing against some other incredible artists. I’m just very lucky that I’ve gotten the opportunity to do such a big thing. so early on in my career. And yeah, it’s gonna be a fun, fun little journey there.”
Q: What can you tell us about the music that’s coming out?
Josh: “A lot of fun stuff, honestly. We’ve been taking a lot of time to just dig through our favourite records from 80s, 90s country, all the way up to country that I was playing in small bars in university, and we’re trying to find a good mix between the two and just release some fun songs that we want people to be able to, you know, enjoy!”
Q: If you could go on tour with anybody right now who would it be and why?
Josh: “Oh, man, that’s a good question. Honestly. Thomas Rett, right now, or a good old Tennessee boy, Connor Smith. Connor Smith was the first artist that I ever got to sit backstage on a show. It’s one of his shows, he did this thing for, um, some of his memories that were there, one of his shows, and I got the chance to sit with him and listen to him and Zach John King, play songs backstage, So, uh, Connor Smith was a real big one.”
Q: What artists would you say you are inspired by most right now?
Josh: A big one is Jordan Davis. Jordan Davis, one of the 1st big ones that I was really, really into. He really, really has, like, helped me kind of find my sound, what I want to do, and kind of the direction I want to go in. But still making songs fun and playable at shows, but staying true to the roots.
Q: Why do you love Western culture?
Josh: “ I think the base thing to me is, it’s a lifestyle. You know, I feel like the music industry and a lot of people can get, like, skewed by what the media wants, and what people want you to do it. I think that with country music, it’s like, it’s so down to earth. I’ve met the most down to earth people I’ve ever met in my life being in the country music space and being a part of that culture, and I think that it’s just something that’s like gonna live forever because we’re all just so tried and true to what we believe in and our way of life. So I think it’s just really important to keep that going and it’s just been a great experience being in it, where people are just so genuine. We’re writing songs about things that we’ve actually done. And, you know, experiences we have, and I think that as unique as a songwriter, being in such a unique position where it’s like, I don’t just get to tell my story. But I get to tell other people’s stories. I can tell people stories of people that I know that weren’t given the opportunity to be like, this is what I’ve been through, and, these are my experiences.”
Stay Wild, Stay Free, Stay Country!
