Jenny Lewis recorded her new album in Nashville with the producer who has helmed some the decade’s most exciting country music, but don’t call “Joy’All” country.
“That’s the thing,” Lewis says over Zoom from her home in Nashville. “It’s not an Americana record. It’s not a country record. It’s got elements of rock-and-roll, rhythm and blues, soul. … I’ve been writing songs like this since the ’90s.”
So instead of thinking of “Joy’All” as the product of a longtime Angelino heading to Music City searching for down-South reinvention, think of it as the next chapter in the same novel that Lewis — who had decamped to Nashville in 2018 with no designs on getting into the city’s idiosyncratic music biz — has been writing for years.
“This is just my life; it’s totally serendipitous,” Lewis says. “Wherever I go, there’s music.”
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