{"id":321077,"date":"2026-08-14T06:30:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T06:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321077\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T06:30:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T06:30:55","slug":"josiah-queen-announces-new-album-damascus-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321077\/","title":{"rendered":"Josiah Queen Announces New Album, \u2018Damascus Road\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Josiah Queen<\/a> has announced his third album,\u00a0Damascus Road, on Instagram, with the record set to arrive on October 23rd, and pre-orders opening on August 14th. He is not making fans wait long for new music either, with \u2018sundays\u2019 arriving this Friday.<\/p>\n

The title continues Biblical thread through Queen\u2019s music. Following his 2024 debut\u00a0The Prodigal\u00a0and 2025\u2019s\u00a0Mt. Zion,\u00a0Damascus Road\u00a0references the road where Saul encounters Jesus in an experience that completely redirects his life. It feels like appropriate territory for an artist whose career has changed dramatically in just over two years.<\/p>\n

Both of Queen\u2019s previous albums debuted at No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s Top Christian Albums chart, while \u2018Dusty Bibles<\/a>\u2019 took him onto the all genre Hot 100 for the first time. Even if you\u2019re not religiously inclined and don’t tend to listen to Christian music, much of Queen\u2019s music sits comfortably beside any main-stream modern country releases.<\/p>\n

And there is clearly a place for it. Country and Christian music are moving increasingly close together, although they\u2019ve never been worlds apart. It\u2019s hard to separate country music from it\u2019s Christian foundations, with it still being arguably the most prominent genre that\u2019s able to talk about faith in a mainstream-welcomed way. <\/p>\n

Brandon Lake\u2019s \u2018Hard Fought Hallelujah\u2019 with Jelly Roll became a mainstream crossover, for instance, while Lake has since collaborated with Lainey Wilson, Bailey Zimmerman and Cody Johnson, and is currently working on a new country-Christian album. <\/p>\n

At CMA Fest in June, his Cowboy Church with Wilson, Dan + Shay and CeCe Winans drew such a crowd that fans spilled into two additional viewing areas. Even younger country stars such as Tucker Wetmore openly place faith alongside family and fans when talking about what drives them, with the likes of Wetmore, Ella Langley and Bailey Zimmerman routinely talking about faith at their live shows.<\/p>\n

Perhaps that points towards Queen\u2019s real strength & place. The message is unmistakably Christian, but the music feels completely contemporary and widely accessible. <\/p>\n

You could stumble across one of his songs on a country or folk playlist without ever thinking about what box it belongs in. Maybe that’s exactly why it is reaching so many people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josiah Queen has announced his third album,\u00a0Damascus Road, on Instagram, with the record set to arrive on October…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-321077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}