Making DEAR JOHN was the most terrifying thing I’ve ever done

But, it was also the most empowering and rewarding thing I’ve ever done.

I co-produced it with one of my best friends, during a global pandemic, while recovering from the biggest trauma I’ve ever experienced.

I wrote every single word that you hear me sing.

Kent Eastwood (my co-producer) and I wrote every single note that you hear played on this album. We wrote the bass lines, the string arrangements, the drum beats, the choir parts, the piano parts, the guitar riffs…. EVERYTHING. I even wrote a (really fucking great) trumpet part, playing my now infamous “mouth trumpet” 🤣 🎺 Then we took the entire album blueprint into the studio and had incredible musicians play the music we’d written for them.

I had such a clear vision for what I wanted this album to be and, I can honestly say, after three months of solid work (and lots of cups of tea), we 100% made that vision come to life.

And, honestly, while I knew I was making it for myself, I felt very clear that I was also making it for a woman I might never meet.

But I never ever thought that, three years on, I’d have SO MANY women telling me that that it felt like I’d made it for them ❤️

(in one of my favourite places in the world… the producers chair 👇 🎶)