Special Show! Grammy® Nominated & 7 Time Blues Award Winner Janiva Magness Live @Chan's Sat. 7/2/22

Special Show! 7 Time Blues Award Winner Janiva Magness Live @Chan's Saturday July 2, 2022. Doors 6:30 pm Show 8:00 pm.

The seven-time Blues Music Awards recipient (and the 2009 B.B. King Entertainer of the Year, the Blues Foundation's highest honor) and 2016 Grammy Award nominee will simultaneously release the Fathead audio book edition of Weeds Like Us, her frank, profoundly moving 2019 memoir. Los Angeles composer and musician Matt Cartsonis produced.

Singer-songwriter-author Janiva Magness makes a forceful return on June 24 with the release of Hard to Kill, the Los Angeles-based musician's first new collection in three years, on her own label Fathead Records.

Magness, who co-wrote four of the dozen new compositions on Hard to Kill, says of her boldly honest and affecting new collection of songs, "I feel like it's a retrospective - not just of my musical life, but of my life. At this point, with what I've been through in my life, top to bottom, you know what, the gloves are off, and the rules are, there really aren't any rules."

"I like true stories," Magness says. "My dad said something to me a long time ago; the meaning of it has changed over time, as things like that do, if we wake up. He said, 'The truth will set you free.'"

Sitting on the bedrock of blues, soul, and funk, the music on Hard to Kill is so tough and assured that it comes as a surprise when Magness says she was initially uncertain about undertaking the making of a new album.
Magness turned the corner creatively after her husband suggested that she should talk things over with Dave Darling, her longtime producer, guitarist, and friend. She began writing new material in the spring of 2021. Looking back, she now realizes that her new songs were tied to the intense memories and feelings she had exposed in Weeds Like Us, "The book and the songs are very, very connected.

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