Music

Available Now: The Early Years | Remastered B-Sides & Demos Vol. 1

Newly Remastered Recordings of My Demos and B-Sides from 1999-2004

Available Now Wherever You Get Music

I’m really grateful to my friend, Brandon Shattuck, who recently remastered a bunch of old recordings from the About A Boy project and my Debut (Josh Bales) project.

If you’re new to my music (in the past ten years), these twenty or so songs will be new to you! They are no-frills demos- limited production up-close recording quality and, now, remastered for balance and up-to-date levels that fit with streaming services.

This is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. It addresses one of the most frequent emails I get from you: “Josh, where can I listen to your first two albums? Are they available online?” So, I’m really excited to get these songs back up and available to you.

They will be released in January 2024 and February 2024 as TWO volumes with about ten songs each. Vol. 1 is a collection of pop oriented songs and Vol. 2 is a collection of Christian/Gospel material.

Volume 1 is set to release on my birthday, January 29th, with a preorder date of January 12th on iTunes. These will be available where ever you get your music these days.

Josh

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A Podcast Interview Part 1 | What Inspired The Weight of Glory EP?

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Shane Morris has a fantastic podcast called Upstream where he interviews folks like Os Guinness, Frederica Matthewes-Green, Hans Boersma, and Jeremy Begbie. Check it out!

In this episode Shane and I talk about the people and ideas that inspired the songwriting for The Weight of Glory EP (Fall 2023).

This Friday 5/19 in Indianapolis

This coming Friday night, May 19th 2023, I’ll be sharing music at 9pm in the JW Marriott in Indianapolis. This event will come at the end of the day’s events for the Earth Crammed With Heaven conference put on by the Colson Center. You can find more information here.

I promise this won’t be a long-winded, end-of-the-night, thing. I’ll just help us all process the teaching and fellowship we’ve enjoyed that day with some together songs and also some of the new songs to be released on The Weight of Glory EP later this Summer. By the way, if you have a question you’d like me to address about songwriting, or therapy, or liturgy, or a song you’d like me to play, use the Peanut Gallery form below and I’ll do my best!

See you there! - Josh

Indianapolis Peanut Gallery Form: Questions for Josh


The Weight of Glory EP is 1/2 Funded! (May/June '23)

Friends, I’m already astounded at your generosity and your belief and support in my new music. if you haven’t been over to kickstarter to help me launch the new music, please do so today, at your earliest convenience! The campaign is ALL or NOTHING and ends June 13th. Your $12 gift helps just as much as a $2k gift. Making art is so much fun with a community of people like you. I love how involved listeners become with kickstarter and I really believe in these songs! Josh