Ella Hooper Instagram – Exciting news!! My dear friend, role model (and collaborator on Small Town Temple) AND national treasure @jojo.smith.315 has a new album out! And for the very first time .. drum roll 🥁.. JoJo’s music is on streaming services! Of course you can buy a physical copy by following Joey and messaging her there or at one of her gigs, but if like me you don’t even own a cd player, (shame!!) you can now follow & listen on Spotify Apple Music Deezer and the like and enjoy the soulful, honey soaked vocals and tasty arrangements we’ve come to know and love from this amazing artist. I’m honoured to call Joey a friend and mentor, not to mention driving instructor. 😂 (in the lockdown days, while I was living in Violet Town, Joey would come pick me – we were in each others bubble – put the L’s on, take me for a lesson & a walk. I’d drive us up to the hills and we’d get our allowed covid k’s on.. shoot the shit about life, love, mortality, music, the themes of the day…) I’m so proud of her for making this new album, and that we’ve both come out of some pretty hard recent times in our circle – and with the support of our amazing friends and community, made records. It is our medicine, our healing. JoJo has one of the best voices in the country and I’m so grateful to have her incredible backing vocals alongside my mum’s all over my album. Joey was so good at encouraging and putting mum at ease in our vocal session, as mum hadn’t recorded much in her life at all, and JoJo well, as I said national treasure status. I was always so excited and impressed having such access to a ‘lifer’ artist like this growing up. What inspiration. Proof of the fine company my mama kept and introduced me to. We were both high-fiving when Joey decided to become a Violet Town resident, moving in practically next door. Oh the jam sessions!! Good thing all the neighbours were onboard, knowwhati’msayin.. Anyway, this post is about THIS gorgeous album. Continued in comments..