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BLOOD

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No Stopping Us

MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

She was in mint condition the day I got her

Passed down to me from my father

He had inherited grandma’s Cadillac

And the day I saw that Chevy,

There was no turning back

 

We were right outside of glory

Held to a never ending story

Setting the world on fire wasn’t good enough

We were building the perfect beast

Everything was how it had to be

Runnin with the devils luck

There was no stopping us

 

They’re some timeless traditions small towns conjure

Dark roads your youth is meant to wander

I sold every excuse to my old man

But in the cold morning light,

Raising hell never stood a chance

 

We were right outside of glory

Held to a never ending story

Setting the world on fire wasn’t good enough

We were building the perfect beast

Everything was how it had to be

Runnin with the devils luck

Back then,

There was no stopping us

 

Now the weeds have taking over my stony heart

And they’re probably pulling her apart

In the back of Smitty’s junkyard

 

Chorus

Covered In Blood

MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

Don’t ask me why

It’s to late now

Stepping over me

Looking for your shoes

Did you come back?

To feel me out

Swearing not to keep

Dancing around the truth

Turn either way

And there’s a sacrifice to make

 

A good run of bad luck

Seems to be enough

To leave our hands

Covered in blood

 

No need to try

To drag me down

When these black days

No no higher ground

I push to breathe

Till my lips go numb

The last of a dying breed

Crawling out from under your thumb

Well all it took

Was a second look

Who knew?

 

A good run of bad luck

Was reason enough?

To leave us where we stand

Covered in blood

 

Don’t believe everything you hear

Let it keep playin on your fears

Cause leavin was the last thing on my mind

To keep my conscience clear

But not tonight

 

Chorus 2X’s

Follow Me Home

MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

Here comes that time of night

It feels like I should leave

No one’s willing to give me a ride

To watch me drink myself to sleep

Please,

Follow me home

 

I can’t help what I’ve done

To who I use to be

I’m someone I never thought I’d become

Someone I never thought I’d see

Follow me home

 

I still come back to where I found you

But this old place doesn’t look the same

Strangers are all I run into

I never wake up, to a familiar face

 

Here comes that time of night

When I don’t mean a single word

So tired of doing what is right

Maybe it’s more than I deserve

Come here, and

Follow me home

Been Gone

MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

I remember afternoons’ in the sun

Leaning over the edge of the dock

Fishing with a coffee can of crumbs

When burnt was all we got

Still got that old radio from your garage

From the shelf above your workshop

Back then you taught me to how to stop

And start being who I am

Then trying to be something I’m not

 

I carry you with me everywhere I go

A part of you lives and breathes in my soul

It’s that solid ground that keeps me strong

No matter how long, you’ve been gone

 

I was in such a hurry to grow up

No one could save me from myself

Ran like razor through the people I loved

Can’t imagine how it felt

I haven’t the courage to stand in front of your stone

That’s not how I see you when my eyes are closed

I still feel bad for how we lost touch

Until we meet again

I’I can’t apologize enough

 

Chorus

 

All the stories might as well be true

Life very rarely plays by the rules

I’ve finally learned I can’t escape my past

And it’s taken me this long to realize that

 

Chorus

Death Trap

MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

There’s a cold wind blowin through town tonight

A hungry stray looking for a warm place to hide

An old grey cameo praying it can turn back time

Covered in the weeds out past Kingston mines

There’s only so long I can hold on before it’s gone

When the whisper in my ear starts to steer me wrong

 

So give all you got

Try and take me apart

Never know when to stop

But you can only push me so far

With no gas in the tank

On this twisted frame

White knuckling through a sea of shattered stars

Dressed in black, here I am, 

in a Death Trap

 

I swore that I would move somewhere out west

That this part time job was a means to an end

But after graduation my life had other plans

So I spent my nights wishin what might could’ve been

There’s only so long I can wait out this feeling now

When the whisper in my ear, stirs up my fear and doubt

 

Chorus

 

My windshields cracked,

Cigarette holes in the dash

And it’s almost too cold for the engine to start

No ghost of a chance,

To heal my past

Though nothing can strip this dream from my heart

 

Chorus

All I See

MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

There was hate, in your voice

Lies on your breath

No way to ignore

What you thought I meant

Now I have seen some things

That I wish weren’t true

And I know more than I care

To know, about you

 

There’s no better time then now

To get up on my feet

There’s nothing left to sort out

So get up off your knees

Cause baby when I look, into your eyes

It’s all I see

 

The words grew, in my throat

From good to bad

And knew you, had me cold

With that knife in my back

And now I hear your secrets

When you think you’re alone

And I know there’s not a curse

That’s worth calling home

 

There’s no better time then now

To get up on my feet

There’s nothing left to sort out

So get up off your knees

Cause baby when I look into your eyes

I can’t believe

It’s all I see

 

You said stay, one more night

To hear you out

And craved to justify

How you’re better now

But I am not some wreck

In need of rescue

To tell me you’re all that’s left

That keeps me safe and bulletproof

 

There’s no better time then now

To get up on my feet

There’s nothing left to sort out

So get up off your knees

Cause baby when I look into your eyes

It’s all I see

Deadliest Thing

MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

Hold up

Before you burn down this place

Had enough?

Of whatever it takes

Well I couldn’t have know it

But now it’s hard to look the other way

 

How many moments have been stolen?

That can’t be replaced

How many times have hearts been broken?

That can’t be saved

It can be the deadliest thing

 

Slowly

You waltz around with these chains

Till my knees hit the ground

Dizzy and spinning out of this cage

Your no where to be found

It’s getting hard to not let it bring us down

 

Chorus

*You can be so deadly

 

Closer, Come here closer

Could be over, or not over

With all of this pain

 

Chorus

Casual Subtleties

MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

Boarded up and closed down

Tired of this marry go round

Every warning you gave me

Was wrong

Fired up and burnt out

This foundations smoking now

Every desire that I had

Is gone

I don’t recognize this road were on

Don’t tell me we’ve been lost here all along

 

You’ve always been a mystery

Livin in a fairy tale

A complicated history

Where whatever I need is for sale

Baby be careful before someone gets hurt

Please don’t keep confusing my words

Is this all were meant to be

Just you and I

And these casual subtleties

 

Strong enough to break ground

Every grudge so tightly wound

I can only fake it for so long

Broken trust full of doubt

These four walls make no sound

The night is darkest just before dawn

I don’t recognize this road were on

Maybe we’ve been lost here all along

 

Chorus

 

Ashes

MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

Did you give it all you had?

To shelter me from all that,

Wasn’t right

Are you haunted by the past?

Now that you can’t take back,

All your lies

Have I been cursed, with every good intention?

Famous last words, when there’s no one around to listen

 

With these bridges burned

Do you, take it for granted?

With these bridges burned

The truth, is the only thing that lasted

To rise from the ashes

 

Caught fire so fast

I’ve never seen eyes as evil as,

Yours that night

Are you to afraid to ask?

Cause it might dig up the last,

Reason why

That I’ve been cursed, with every good intention

For better or worse, to this day still can’t be forgiven

 

Chorus

 

Have I been cursed, by every good intention?

Famous last words, when there’s no one around to listen

 

Chorus

Crossbone

MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

Headed into the unknown

Opened doors that can’t be closed

Bandaged every blood soaked, cross bone

Left out here to die alone

 

What’s left to say that hasn’t been said?

When all you feel is that hole in your chest

Haunted by the voices in your head

When what you want is not what you get

Save your breath

When goodbye is all that you have left

 

Hunger drives your weary soul

Knowing now what you should have known

Hoping against hope, comes and goes

My youth might be gone, but those songs never get old

 

Chorus

 

Last words die-hard

Chasing after demons you can’t catch

Lovers leave scars

Caught somewhere between life and death

When goodbye is all you have left

 

Chorus

Once The Whiskey

MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

There’s an old road, past that empty house

It leads to ghosts. I don’t talk about

In the evenings when I sit back

Alone with my first drink

It stirs up something awful

And I can’t help but think

Just how I miss used the way you treated me

 

When there was music in the air 

Melody in every step

And I never use to touch that bottle

But now there no promises left

And every change I swore I would make

Has met every tragic end

I don’t blame you for leaving the way that you did

Once the whiskey moved in

 

Now this bar stool, has me figured out

It can be cruel, until I wear it down

Though I’m never able to get past

The answer I live with

I know I swore I would Quit

And somehow I wish I did

I crack and bleed, I beg and plead

And I see now

What you were trying to say

When there was music in the air

Melody in every step

And I didn’t reach for that bottle

To put your promises to rest

And every change I swore I would make

Wasn’t the beginning of the end

And I never thought you’d stay as long as you did

Once the whiskey moved in

 

When there was music in the air

Melody in every step

And I didn’t need to touch that bottle

But now there no promises left

And every change I swore I would make

Didn’t save us in the end

But I don’t blame you for leaving the way that you did,

I never thought you’d stay as long as you did

Once the whiskey moved in

Tazewell County Line

MUSIC & LYRICS BY: J. KETCHMARK

I thought I knew you

Was I ever wrong

I took for granted

What you kept from me for so long

 

I won’t ask how you want to be remembered

How could I ever forget?

Don’t act like all of my prayers have been answered

Wishing me nothing but the best

Walking that Tazewell county line

For the very last time

 

You swore you’d slow down

That the worst was gone

So we took our chances

And I crossed my fingers we’d finish strong

It wasn’t hard to see what was coming

Once you started taking the long way home

Those nights you left your son waiting

For a family he’ll never know

 

Don’t ask how I want to be remembered

And make me sit through your list of regrets

Don’t act like none of your prayers have been answered

While you were drinking yourself to death

Walking that Tazewell county line

For the very last time

Out on that Tazewell county line

For the very last time

 

I thought I knew you

Was I ever wrong

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Covered In Blood – Official Video (Video Premieres  on 07/08/2022 at 9AM)

INDIE BAND GURU

Experience Your Life Blood with Joshua Ketchmark

Joshua Ketchmark is a living portrait of midwestern, roots Americana. This reviewer happened to live in the rural Midwest for six years and I can attest to the genuineness of what the soil in that part of the country produces. Although Ketchmark also cut his teeth out here in Hollywood studios and playing gigs at the legendary Roxy, he never lost his language from the land of hearts as he continues to prolifically record from his studio in Nashville.

Ketchmark’s highly anticipated tenth studio album “BLOOD”(due out in July) is shaping up to hold the torch of such middle America greats as Dylan or even The Replacements, while maintaining the unassuming vibe of acts like The Jayhawks.

His latest, tantalizing single “Covered in Blood” is a steady, anthemic alt-rocker that not only showcases his trademark ability to tell jugular vein stories drenched in melody, but it also portrays his penchant for intoxicating arrangements. Just a simple, audio injection of Michael Webb’s organ layering on top of the band’s gritty, electric, strumming is certain to trigger an increase in your white cell count.

Notice how the words and melodies play with the listeners emotions – blending irony and despair along with an underlying sense of liberation:

“A good run of bad luck

Is reason enough

To leave us where we stand

Covered in blood ”

Is the storyteller in an utterly, anguished loss of heart? Or is he secretly relieved the relationship’s consummate spilling has finally taken place? You can decide for yourself as you make Ketchmark’s “Covered in Blood” part of the story of what’s running through the veins of your own life.

By Francis Itch

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SKOPE MAGAZINE 

Joshua Ketchmark Releases Reflective Album with ‘Blood’

It’s safe to say that Joshua Ketchmark poured his ‘Blood’, sweat and tears into this new record where Joshua Ketchmark can be heard laying it all on the table. ‘Blood’ is Joshua’s 10th studio album and the singer/songwriter states that this project is all about his past. Joshua provides an all-access pass and inside look into the life & times of Joshua Ketchmark. ‘Blood’ is based on true events and gives an accurate & intimate perspective on one man and his storied past.

I truly enjoy Joshua’s approach here because he’s not afraid to be vulnerable for the listener’s sake by showing that he bleeds red just like everyone else. That vulnerability makes Joshua Ketchmark a certifed pro when it comes to being a real artist. Actual ‘Blood’ was not shed during the making this album however Joshua’s personal accounts were put on full display for all to hear. For that reason alone, I commend Joshua Ketchmark and his efforts on this sincere project.

Let’s dive into ‘Blood’ now! The record starts up with a great intro on “No Stopping Us” that proves to be a lively ride that is heading in the right direction. Next is “Covered in Blood” that is a total joy to listen to and the song has an incredibly catchy hook/melody in place. “Covered in Blood” seems to have that major Pop appeal that makes it 100 % radio-friendly, in my opinion. Track three, “Follow Me Home”, provides a strong delivery and powerful performance by Joshua K, so brace yourselves for a phenomenal listening experience. Moving along, we hear “Been Gone” that contains emotionally-driven lyrics & vocals along with a gripping & inviting sound overall. Track five, “Death Trap”, showcases Joshua Ketchmark as a premier storyteller where he is able to paint a vivid picture through music while keeping the audience engaged from start to finish. Next, on “All I See” Joshua can be heard delivering a rock-star performance and fan-favorite, in my honest opinion. Track seven, “Deadliest Thing”, is a killer track where the singing & instrumentation are both spot on and the song, itself, will instantly grab you and not let go. Joshua decides to go very direct and personal on “Casual Subtitles” where Ketchmark is singing & playing from a deep place and the result is wonderful to witness. Track nine, “Ashes”, is on fire and offers complete symmetry from a musical standpoint. Get ready for striking chords that will hit you hard on “Crossbone” and then prepare to consume “Once the Whiskey” that will brighten your mood and get you feelin’ good real quick! Joshua is closing the show with style & class, so let’s all head to “Tazewell County Line” and meet the man of the hour there.

Joshua Ketchmark is bearing his soul for us on ‘Blood’ and the end result is a resounding triumph. Joshua impresses me with his ability to craft a song into a well-versed story that will capture the hearts and imaginations of many people out there. Joshua Ketchmark is hoping that this record “will find its way into the soundtrack of your life” and I have a funny feeling it will. ‘Blood’ is set to be released July 08, 2022, so think about adding Joshua Ketchmark to your library; you won’t regret it!

By Jimmy Rae

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LINER NOTES
All songs written by Joshua Ketchmark/ KETCHMARK MUSIC © & ℗ 2022 (BMI)
Produced,Engineered* & Mixed by Joshua Ketchmark
Mastered by Michael Bozzi at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood CA.
*additional engineering : Blake Parris & Johan Glidden

No Stopping Us : 
DRUMS & PERC: Zak St. John / BASS: Ger Hoffman / GTRS: Sadler Vaden /
ORGAN: Michael Webb / HARMS: CC Wyle /
Joshua Ketchmark: Lead Vocal, Acoustic & Electric Guitars

Covered In Blood : 
DRUMS & PERC: Zak St. John / BASS: Ger Hoffman / GTRS: Sadler Vaden /
ORGAN : Michael Webb / HARMS: Joey O, Kenny Wright /
Joshua Ketchmark : Lead Vocal, Harms, Acoustic & Electric Guitars

Follow Me Home : 
DRUMS: Zak St. John / BASS: Ger Hoffman / GTRS: Sadler Vaden / Joshua Ketchmark : Lead Vocal, Harm, Acoustics, Synth, E.Piano, Programing

Been Gone : 
DRUMS & PERC: Zak St. John / BASS: Ger Hoffman / GTRS: Sadler Vaden / PIANO & ORGAN : Michael Webb / Vocal Pads : Joshua Ketchmark & Kenny Wright / Joshua Ketchmark : Lead Vocal, Harm & Acoustics

Death Trap : 
PERC: Zak St. John / VOCAL PADS: CC Wyle / Joshua Ketchmark: Everything else

All I See : 
DRUMS & PERC: Zak St. John / BASS: Ger Hoffman / GTR: Sadler Vaden / ORGAN: Michael Webb / HARMS: Heather Luttrell, Candace Devine / Joshua Ketchmark: Lead Vocal, Acoustic & Electric Guitars

Deadliest Thing : 
DRUMS & PERC: Zak St. John / BASS: Ger Hoffman / GTR: Sadler Vaden / ORGAN & WURLY: Michael Webb / HARMS & VOCAL PADS: Dvniel / Joshua Ketchmark: Lead Vocal, Electric Guitar, Piano & Synths

Casual Subtleties : 
VIOLA: Nick Nguyen / HARM: Candace Devine / Joshua Ketchmark: Everything Else

Ashes : 
DRUMS & PERC: Zak St. JOHN / BASS: Nick Culbreath / ORGAN & PIANO: Michael Webb / HARMS: Candace Devine / STEEL: Tony Paoletta / Joshua Ketchmark: Lead Vocal, Acoustic & Electric Guitars,

Crossbone : 
DRUMS: Zak St. JOHN / BASS: Ger Hoffman / GTRS: Sadler Vaden / ORGAN & PIANO: Michael Webb / HARMS: Heather Luttrell & Kenny Wright / Joshua Ketchmark: Lead Vocal, Synth, Electric, Acoustics, & Resonator Guitar

Once The Whiskey : 
BANJO & VIOLA: Nick Nguyen / Joshua Ketchmark: Everything else

Tazewell County Line : 
DRUMS & PERC: Zak St. John / BASS: Ger Hoffman / GTR: Sadler Vaden ORGAN: Michael Webb / HARMS: Candace Devine / STEEL: Tony Paoletta / Joshua Ketchmark: Lead Vocal, Electric & Acoustic Guitars,
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