JOSIAH SISKA

                                                               "3 Tequila Floor" 

                                                                Black River Entertainment

Josiah Siska has spent the past year making all the right moves around Nashville as he’s positioned himself as an artist to watch in 2022 and created a substantial amount of buzz for his highly anticipated EP Three Chords At A Time.

Whether through the upbeat groove of “Honky-Tonk,” the party leader anthem “Come on Down,” or the stunning, slower paced, autobiographical title track “Three Chords At A Time,” Siska’s deeper registered vocal remains one of the most talked about new voices of country music. 

He now shifts to the EP’s focus track “3 Tequila Floor,” one of only 2 songs from the EP that he didn’t have a hand in writing, which allows him to endearingly unveil a completely different side of his arsenal.

Written by Bobby Terry, Matt Rossi, and Clayton Davis, the snap along rhythm of the instrumentation as the song begins brings us straight back to the sound most often identified with the Hollywood espionage era of the kitschy 1960’s. In true Josiah Siska fashion, though, he uses his voice to twist the style into an insatiable country vibe that borrows ideals from classic country storytelling.

Telling four completely different stories through the verses that focus on varying people, with tequila being the glue that binds them all as the title suggests, Siska finds the right ways to connect at least one of the stories with the listening audience’s own unique tale of a tequila induced night out on the town.

There’s the first story of himself talking with a fella at a cantina in Cabo Wabo while throwing back shot after shot until he’s flat on his back and staring at the ceiling – “1 tequila, 2 tequila, 3 tequila floor!”

There’s the bachelorette party where little Katie Shepherd had one too many and went from being the ultra-quiet type to wanting to fight everyone in the place.

And then there’s the one about Tommy, the kid who just turned 21 and lived it up like a rockstar with glass after glass of Jose Cuervo until he was blurry eyed and grinning, but down for the count.

The song moves into “interesting” territory when Siska’s sci-fi addiction shines through on the final verse as he sings the tale of little green men whose spaceship crashed in Rosewell trying to blend in at the bar with tequila in hand until the military men showed up and carted them off to Area 51.

While a lot of songs that are currently at country radio seem to fit a specific mold, Siska swerves the norm to deliver something that is completely different, and he absolutely grabs your attention because of it. Though this is a fun, toe-tapping drinking song at its core, Josiah creatively pulls you in hook, line, and sinker with strong and relatable storytelling elements injected into it, and then masterfully uses his very distinguishable voice to sell you on why he’s quite possibly country music’s next big thing.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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