One-Sheet · Cosmic Mountain Guitar
Josh Martin
- Label
- Eiderdown Records
- Released
- November 7, 2025
- Format
- Cassette edition of 100 (screen-printed artwork) + digital
Josh Martin is a cosmic mountain guitarist from Colorado Springs. He plays solo fingerstyle and effects-soaked electric in the American Primitive tradition, pushed out toward ambient and cosmic country. His debut full-length, Western Mind, was released by Seattle's Eiderdown Records in November 2025, recorded alone in a shed at the base of the Front Range. The record drew early support from Acoustic Guitar Magazine, Bandcamp Daily, Aquarium Drunkard, and KEXP, and was described by The Third Eye as approaching "the spectral Americana of William Tyler."
“Colorado guitarist Josh Martin paints guitar-centered landscapes on Western Mind. Hints of country twang and flowing rhythm suggest a strong sense of place.”
— Joey Lusterman, Acoustic Guitar Magazine · Winter 2025–26
“There's country music like they make in Nashville and then there's the big ol' wide open country music of Josh Martin, a Colorado-based guitarist whose music is like a wordless travelogue of the vast empty spaces that stretch across the American West. The song titles set the scene — 'Goose Creek,' 'Hwy 24,' 'Crags,' 'Truck Stop Hymnal' — and Martin uses six strings and some electronic sounds to conjure up backlit clouds, sun-dappled rivers, darkening skies, distant lightning, rolling pastures, and the steady thrum of a life lived among it all.”
— Ben Salmon, Bandcamp Daily · November 21, 2025
- 01WestcliffeLead. Features Stefan Beck (Golden Brown / Prairiewolf)
- 02Goose CreekAquarium Drunkard curation · Prairiewolf-selected · single 2024
- 03TarryallPlayed on KEXP (DJ Riz) and The Trailhead 191 (Jeff Conklin)
- KEXP · Pacific Notions (Alex Ruder)Nov 9, 2025
- KEXP · Drive time (DJ Riz)Nov 2025
- Bandcamp Daily · Best Country Music of November 2025 (Ben Salmon)Nov 21, 2025
- Aquarium Drunkard · Winter Solstice playlist + curated catalog2025
- The Trailhead · Episode 191 (Jeff Conklin)Nov 23, 2025