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Nashville-based singer-songwriter Jobi Riccio has released her debut album Whiplash today via Yep Roc. The 11-song collection, written and recorded over the course of several formative and tumultuous years in Riccio’s late teens and early twenties, effortlessly melds classic folk and country sounds with indie and atmospheric production. From the bittersweet album opener “Summer” to the jazz-infused album closer “One Last Time,” each song is a revelatory, coming-of-age story about change, healing, growth, and self-love. Whiplash was co-produced by Gar Ragland, Jesse Timm, Isaiah Beard (of Baerd), and Riccio at Ragland’s Citizen Studios in Asheville, North Carolina. 

“When I was writing these songs, I kept coming back to this image of someone slamming on the breaks in a car crash and this idea of emotional whiplash,” Riccio explains. “That rush of stress and adrenaline felt similar to what I was experiencing as I emotionally processed my adolescence—almost as if I was being jerked around by one big life change after another.” 

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Listen to Jobi Riccio’s first full-length album and debut release for Yep Roc Records: https://ffm.to/jobiricciowhiplash

Today, Riccio has unveiled the official music video for album centerpiece “Sweet,” directed by Jasmine McGlade (producer of "La La Land") and featuring the Denver Roller Derby. Watch HERE. 

“To me, roller derby and its athletes perfectly embody the spirit of my song, in all their DIY toughness and subversion of gender roles and constructs,” Riccio explains about the “Sweet” music video. “Derby is a cool juxtaposition—people rollerskating which requires balance and skill—contrasted with them body checking each other which is just pure contact and almost primal I’d imagine. I often feel a juxtaposition of both tender and tough characteristics within me and was grappling with these when I wrote the song, so the video is a mirror to that in a way.” 

Born and raised near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, a stone's throw from Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Riccio grew up surrounded by roots music and fell in love with the genre at an early age. Over the past few months, the 25-year-old musician has garnered praise from NPR, The New York Times, The Nashville Scene, The Boot, No Depression, Holler, MOJO and more. Riccio made her Newport Folk Festival debut this summer, where she was honored with the John Prine Songwriter Fellowship Award. She’ll return to AmericanaFest this month, before joining Molly Tuttle on tour for a handful of dates this Fall.

Jobi Riccio Tour Dates

* = Americana Fest

# = Supporting Molly Tuttle

September 8 - eTown Hall - Boulder, CO

September 9 - Globe Hall - Denver, CO

September 15 - Judson andamp; Moore - Chicago, IL

September 17 - Jaanaroo - Nashville, TN *

September 21 - Eastside Bowl - Nashville, TN * 

September 21 - Exit/In - Nashville, TN *

November 14 - Higher Ground - South Burlington, VT #

November 16 - Aura - Portland, ME #

November 17 - Berklee Performance Center - Boston, MA #