![]() There was no press in the pit, no one backstage. It almost felt like the biggest DIY tour of all time because we were in our respective bubbles. Not even as a performer - just as a human being, learning how to socialize again. I was a little nervous to be around people. I mean, I had been at home alone for about a year and a half at that point. When you opened for Harry Styles, you were basically performing to 20,000 people who didn’t know your music well. ![]() I wanted to get some honky-tonk references in there without being inauthentic. But most of that stuff is stuff that has appeared in hit country songs. And then I peppered it with some humor - Timberlake is a little joke. The whole song is basically a laundry list of all of these phrases that are in big country songs. “Love Feel” was part of the songwriting workshop, and the assignment was to write a song with all clichés. There’s a lot going on in “Love Feel,” too - like when you sing, “PCP and Mary Jane/Marvin Gaye, Timberlake.” What’s that about? There’s a lot to unpack in that song, but ultimately, it’s up to you to get unstuck. “The stakes is high/The whistle blows,” that’s a De La Soul reference - and a #MeToo reference. If you happen to be single now in the world, it’s about all those things. It’s actually from my phone where I’m in my bathroom at home at three in the morning recording those vocals. The bridge is really where it’s at in that song. The lyrics are, “When I’m all by myself/I just hurt myself/Baby can you feel that? But when we are together/We say such sweet things to each other/Baby I need that.” That was the feeling in 20. Well, I was definitely high when I wrote it. I feel like I’m high when I listen to “Giddy Up.” So we didn’t really hammer into the Americana stuff. I went into RCA thinking that Dave and I were going to make more of an Americana-sounding record, but I had demoed all of the songs on my phone, and they had almost a Nineties, Tracy Chapman, R&B kind of vibe. I gravitated towards country music more through California - Buck Owens, Gram Parsons, and the Byrds. But Blue Note was the gateway to that world. ![]() Later, as a teenager, I discovered Sub Pop and Up Records and got into indie rock. Blue Note was the first almost-indie label that I got into. It was Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Ornette Coleman, Horace Silver. I picked the records based on the covers because I didn’t know anything about jazz. When I was a kid, he’d take me to the Virgin Megastore and say, “Pick out 10 CDs, but they have to be from the jazz section.” So I was the only 10-year-old with a crazy jazz CD selection. My godfather, who passed away last year, was also my mentor. I’ve been a Blue Note Records fan since I was a little kid. ![]() I was on Warner’s for a long time, and it felt like a good moment to switch things up. There’s something about having a positive title like Joy’All that draws people in, instead of Death in the Valley, or whatever I could have called it. There’s a lot of relationship stuff in there, but the more I play these songs, I realize it’s about my relationship with myself and my higher power. Garth Brooks Launches Nashville Radio Station: 'We Can't Lose Country Music' “But really, you got to get on your pony and ride on out.” There’s even a song titled “Giddy Up.” And during our interview, she drops wisdom like a local in a porch rocking chair. Some of the material was born in Lewis’ truck while she was driving around antiquing. Due out June 9 on Blue Note Records, it’s produced by Dave Cobb, the Nashville ace known for his work with Jason Isbell, Brandi Carlile, and Sturgill Simpson. “I’m the nerdiest, wimpiest Nashvillian,” she confirms.Įven so, Lewis’ new album, Joy’All, is her Nashville Skyline moment, full of cozy melodies and lush pedal-steel guitar. since 2017, the only law she breaks is smoking weed. ![]() I’m not an outlaw at all.” It’s true: In Tennessee, where Lewis has been splitting her time with L.A. “I’m a Jewish girl from the Valley, transplanted in East Nashville. “Let’s be honest,” the 47-year-old indie-rock icon says on a Zoom call. Jenny Lewis knows she’s not a real Southerner. ![]()
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