What lead me to this point
“The world is my Oyster but I’m running out of time!”
Cross My Heart – Joanna Jacobs
Music has always been the main love and passion in my live however in the last few years peforming and writting has been very far from my mind, at one point I found even trying to play guitar or write a song so difficult it ended with me in tears so I would give up. Looking back on that time now makes me realise I was so upset and frustrated because it means the world to me, music is everything.
Flash forward to 2017 I decided enough was enough, I needed to create something even if no one else ever listened to it apart from me. Bubba Jo was born out of the crazy big mouth filter on snapchat with the high pitched voice, the hillbilly character I had invented would be the front for my new novelty music project which inculded such songs as “Shake my Hand” and “Lady Business” each song lasts only over 30 seconds but it was all I needed to make me think what the hell am I doing? I need to do music, I have to do music! https://bubbajo.bandcamp.com/releases
So I got the songwritting bug back and had got back into using Logic but now I had the issue of what kind of style of music was I going to make. I kinda fell into writting stuff using alot of electronic sounds and midi synths against very heavy distored guitar riffs, I was loving it, it felt so good to be making music again. Some of the early stuff I was making had a 80’s goth pop, cure/ siouxsie vibe. Then for a while I just stopped again, you know how it is? Life just gets in the way, trying to find a balance can be hard working full time, trying to have a social life and personal issues.
Some more time went by it was 2018 and Deja vu struck, I was wastitng time. So I cut down my hours at work and really made my self a promise to use the extra day I gained to not sit in my Pj’s and watch netflix all day but focus.
Playing my guitar more and more, really honing in on my own style of playing, just natrually progressed into the sound of my E.P. “Rock n Roll with a splash of Surf Punk” But It took time, and theres lots of other songs that I wrote for the e.p that I love and feel proud of but didn’t match the vibe and it took servral variations of the e.p till I found the right one. Some of the songs that were intened for the E.P were almost to personal and emotional, I want this E.P to sound fun and exciting. You never know maybe they will be on the next one.
Thanks for reading what lead me to this point, stay tuned for a breakdown of the songs on the E.P in my next post.
Joanna Jacobs Music 