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Vinyl Records London are on cloud nine, we are now spinning in a brand new copy in Green Vinyl from Jenny Lewis Joy’All, the fifth solo album from Jenny Lewis and follow up to 2019’s critically acclaimed On The Line Warner Records finds the singersongwriter embarking on a new era in a new town—and on a new label, as she joins the iconic roster of Blue NoteCapitol Records.“I started writing some of these songs on the road, prepandemic… and then put them aside as the world shut down, and then from my home in Nashville in early 2021, I joined a weeklong virtual songwriting workshop with a handful of amazing artists, hosted by Beck. The challenge was to write one song every day for seven days, with guidelines from Beck. The guidelines would be prompts like ‘write a song with 145 chord progression,’ ‘write a song with only cliches,’ or ‘write in free form style.’ The first song I submitted to the group was ‘Puppy and a Truck.’” As the days progressed, the assignments kept coming in and Jenny ended up writing a good portion of Joy’All.While Joy’All pulls from a bounty of sonic inspiration–from soul to 90’s R&B, as well as country and classic singersongwriter records the album’s rich and intimate, live sound is the hallmark of eighttime Grammy winning producer Dave Cobb John Prine, Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, whom Jenny met by chance while visiting Lucius at the Historic RCA Studio A in Nashville. A natural kinship developed between the two, and with her arsenal of songs that she had demoed on her iPhone ready to roll, Jenny texted Dave and asked him to produce her new album.Joy’All–out June 9th, 2023 on Blue NoteCapitol Records–is a beacon of enlightenment that could only come from embracing life, taking the good with the bad it’s a tensong overture that invites the listener to find their own path to joy.