Owing to the instantly recognizable style of earnest radio landlords like Five For Fighting, Kear conjures up soulful, ultimately memorable mainstream acoustic pop. He's darn good, and his song Forever Valentine sure sounds like something big to us. - NASHVILLE RAGE Where is the next generation of American rock 'n roll artists? What ever happened to the Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, John Mellencamp, and Bob Dylan's of the world? We've been waiting. Patiently I might add. The music still spills from the FM static on busted car speakers and the second-hand stereos in low-rent apartments across mid-America, but the heart that used to be the lifeblood of heartland rock and roll has gone missing. Kidnapped for at least a decade. Don't pay the ransom folks, that's all about to change.. Josh Kear is writing music that is striking a chord with listeners who once again want their music to not only sound good, but to mean something as well. "Every song is a little movie. A little play. A short story. You just get to write the soundtrack as well as the dialogue. Find a character worth writing about and the words seem to write themselves." Kear's songs involve characters as diverse as truck drivers, teenage lovers, soldiers, government officials and blue-collar twenty-somethings trying to understand themselves and their generation. Josh has been writing songs for a living since 1996 when he signed an exclusive publishing deal with BMG Music Publishing. The songs written during this period garnered enough attention that many of them were recorded by major musical acts. While not exactly country music, a few of his songs were cut within the country genre - the most notable being the title cut to Tim McGraw's Set This Circus Down album. "My time at BMG was a bit of an apprenticeship while I was finding myself as a writer. Figuring out what I had to say and learning how to say it. I've always loved singing and playing for people, but the goal back then wasn't to become a recording artist; just to perfect the art of writing a great song. Guess I coulda guessed that doing one would lead to doing both." Currently, Josh is writing for Big Yellow Dog, a subsidiary of Sony. Josh Kear's music is the beginning of a new rock revolution. By weaving his roots in classic rock with his stories and ideas, he is creating songs that are beginning to inspire a new generation. - C4 PRESS RELEASE