“It feels like I exist in all these different worlds, and I can feel each of them tugging at different parts of me.” “I’ve always felt pulled in a lot of directions,” says Jobi Riccio about the album’s title. Jobi Riccio has come a long way since then, and her forthcoming album Whiplash – due out on Yep Roc in September – is a collection of revelatory coming-of-age stories that she wrote over the course of several formative years in Riccio’s late teens and early twenties in which she faces up to past traumas, overcomes insecurities and embraces her queer identity. “I do remember a cringey one I wrote that was basically ripping off ‘Travelin’ Soldier’ by The Chicks but written by a seven-year-old trying to make sense of the Iraq war.” “I was always humming something to myself, playing around on the family piano or my sister’s toy guitar that had three strings,” she says, trying to remember the first song she ever wrote. I think my music has a lot of western elements to it - references to coyotes, deserts, prairies - all images from where I grew up that I carried with me that have informed my sense of home and place.” “I was drawn to music, writing, singing but also a life of adventure and exploring and connecting to the natural world. “I think that set the trajectory for my life in many ways.” “I spent a lot of time outside in the mountains as a little kid exploring and humming made up songs to myself and the deer”, Jobi Riccio tells us about growing up in Morrison, Colorado - a tourist town just west of Denver that’s home to Red Rocks Amphitheater.
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