Johanna Samuels - First and the Last EP (2024) Hi-Res

Jordan Lehning has been a musician I’ve admired since I was a teenager so when he asked me if I wanted to make music together I jumped at the chance. I try to write everyday as an exercise and the songs for this came quite fluidly. The whole project came together in a short amount of time and was recorded at The Duck in Nashville, TN. In this past year I came into a new sense of fierceness within myself and I think the music is reflective of it in tone. The recordings were also extremely joyful to create. There was a profound amount of laughing and hamming in the studio and I can only hope that comes thru to its listeners in this collection as well. I felt lucky to have my old friend and incredible drummer Dom Billet on the EP. I hope that these songs are interpreted with a sense of levity and joy as they explore the more nuanced elements of love and self.