One of LA's best-kept musical songwriting secrets for over a decade -- collaborating

with the likes of Sondre Lerche, Jim James, Moby, Sarah and Sean Watkins (Nickel

Creek), and Mikael Jorgensen (Wilco) -- Jamie Drake has all the while been carefully

honing her own craft and preparing to take center stage.

In September 2019, Jamie Released her breakout album, Everything’s Fine, on

AntiFragile Music, a record peppered with indie-folk-pop stylings wrapped in lush

orchestrations.

Singles such as “Everything’s Fine,”Wonder,” and “Redwood Tree” surpassed over

15M streams on Spotify and brought in critical acclaim from NPR Music, Talkhouse,

Flood, BGS, and Atwood Magazine, plus a flurry of famous fans (like Ed Helms, Rob

Thomas of Matchbox 20), and Sarah Watkins (I’m With Her / Nickel Creek) heaping

public praise. The album was even featured on Wilco’s “Favorite Albums of 2019” List.

2019 continued to be a year of high notes, with tours and appearances supporting J.S

Ondara, The Watkins Family Hour, Devotchka, Sondre Lerche, and Shawn Colvin, plus

a sold out Los Angeles residency.

Drake maintained the cover of Spotify’s “Modern Eclectic” playlist for a year and a half

— winning her the attention of new fans across the globe in a time when playing live

had ended for the foreseeable future.

This June 2022, Drake’s love for early 1970s Laurel Canyon folk unexpectedly meets

Rio de Janeiro in “New Girl,” once again displaying her ability to evolve as a dynamic

artist in her time. “New Girl” is a raw and emotionally brave follow up to her last

release, with 11 songs primarily recorded in single vocal takes; keeping her best

performances along with raw, minor imperfections.

“New Girl’s” bossa influence came as a welcomed surprise and was inspired by the

incomparable Getz / Gilberto “76” album, which Jamie discovered for the first time in

2020 while living in upper Ojai, California. “I listened to it every day while riding my bike

around Meiners Oaks with my dog Moxie and a red JBL speaker in the basket. I got to

know those songs really well, even though I don’t speak Portuguese. I knew they had

gotten into my marrow when I met and wrote ‘It’s A New Life’ with Rich Jacques that

following May. I knew immediately that I would make my next album with him because

the feeling of this new song was the world I wanted to live in musically.”

By fall 2021 Rich Jacques came to California to produce the album with Jamie and

Austin Myles Grant, fellow LA artist / multi-instrumentalist who ended up playing most

of the instruments on the record. The trio was invited to record at a private residence

set in the Santa Monica mountains, seeped in the purity and quiet of nature, where

they could fully unfurl and connect musically. This purity and connection can be felt in

the recordings. Drake bravely asks one of the most human questions in “Is There

Something Wrong with Me?” And contemplates that “..Life feels undeserving when the

whole world is hurting.. And then John Prine dies.. Am I just a lie.. if I haven’t had to

cry?” Jamie synthesizes the guilt many felt across the globe in early 2020 with clarity

while still maintaining hope and purpose in “When John Prine Died.” These heartfelt

tracks are magnificently balanced by other offerings like the comically recorded Bossa influenced,

“New Girl,” which depicts Jamie’s gypsy-like childhood and not-so-great

life lessons with a twinkle in her eye. And then there’s “Sing,” a song that can lift the

heart of the listener into a fantasia of imagination and wonder not unlike Julie Andrews

in “The Sound of Music.” It’s this childlike awe Drake maintains that draws even the

youngest of fans to her. Hits like “Easy Target,” remind us of Carol King in “It’s Too

Late,” and feel as if it was recorded around the same time. The album becomes

hypnotic with “It’s A New Life,” which takes us to a world where Drake’s vocals feel like

a cross between Astrud Gilberto and Sade. “Lifted by Love” and “It’s A Wonderful Life”

bring the listener to their heart center where anything is possible and the world is still

filled with hope and wonder.. all melded together by Jamie’s mesmerizing and unique

vocal melodies and songwriting; bringing a fresh perspective on Folk and Bossa Nova

that is uniquely her own.

https://www.jamiedrakemusic.com/

Izzy Joy is a singer/songwriter from a small town in Michigan. As an artist, she has been singing and writing music for as long as she can remember, but Izzy started really getting into the craft when her parents gifted her with her first songwriting journal at the age of 10.

Piano is Izzy's main instrument, as she has been playing for about 17 years. Izzy Joy's genre of original music is a mix of pop, soul, and indie, but she draws inspiration from many different styles including jazz, rock, indie, and country. Her sound is influenced by countless artists, though some of the most noteworthy are Amy Winehouse, Adele, The Beatles, Aretha Franklin, and Stevie Wonder!

Izzy has performed in and won first place in a local competition "The Battle of the Local Vocals," and also secured the runner-up title at the Michigan State Fair Superstar competition the summer of 2023. She also had the pleasure of competing in a songwriting competition in Memphis, TN, where she was able to perform on legendary Beale Street, and continued on to win runner-up!

Recently, Izzy Joy has played at the Bluebird Café as well as other venues in Nashville, TN. She is booking gigs far and wide, and plans to not only continue traveling around her home state of Michigan, but to also travel nationally in order to share her music with a wider audience.

https://izzyjoy.net/