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Part-time poet turned melodic storyteller, Chicano singer/songwriter Josiah Flores puts music to the parts of life most tend to hide from. From the foothills of south San Jose to the foggy avenues of San Francisco, he calls the Bay Area his home. Influenced by the likes of Stoney Edwards, Freddy Fender, Willie Dunn, and Waylon Jennings, if one were to sit in a dimly-lit corner of their local watering hole, hunched over a beer, they would find Josiah's songs sitting down next to them.What first started off as a solo project, Josiah has now brought some new players to join him on his second full length album, Doin' Fine, a collection of songs that explore themes of change and transformation. The band includes Esther Gonzales (dobro, lap steel), Sydney Peterson (bass), K. Dylan Edrich (Fiddle), Ainsley Wagoner (piano, keys, background vox) Jacob Aranda (pedal steel), and Marisela Guizar (drums), musicians all based in the Bay Area. The album was produced and recorded on Otari ½Inch 8 track by Alicia Vanden Heuvel, at Speakeasy Studios SF, her record tag and analog recording studio of the same name, in San Francisco's Mission District. Growing up religious, Josiah cut his teeth in his church's youth group band, learning early how to communicate songs to an audience, as well as lead a band. This led him to writing his own songs and poems and performing them at whatever open mic would let him, guitar and harmonica in hand. The album's opener, InchWishin' I Don't Care, Inch mimics the simplicity of a hymn from a Johnny Cash Gospel album, with lyrics that reflect Flores' personal experience. InchYoung, Dumb, & Full of BeerInch, the album's first single, is reminiscent of the old drinking songs in the style of Hank Williams. It follows a narrator wanting to save his relationship, but who keeps finding himself in his own cycle of self destruction. Sonically, the song mimics a c
