As Dallas-based singer-songwriter Joshua Ray Walker was battling Stage 3B colon cancer last year, his mind wandered, unsurprisingly, to a happier place.
Now, after treatment, he’s putting cancer firmly in the rear-view. Though Walker won’t be fully in remission for another five years, that happier place is moving from fantasy to reality. Walker has announced a surprise new album, Tropicana, due out June 13. “It’s country music in a Hawaiian shirt,” Walker wrote on social media.
The 10-song collection follows his 2024 LP, Thank You for Listening…