Janiva Magness at The Venice West

Singer-songwriter-author Janiva Magness makes a forceful return on June 24 with the release of Hard to Kill, the Los Angeles-based musicians first new collection in three years, on her own label Fathead Records.The seven-time Blues Music Awards recipient (and the 2009 B.B. King Entertainer of the Year, the Blues Foundations 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.LA Weekly named the volume its Book of the Month, while No Depression said, [Magness] plumbs her own emotional depths, carrying us with her through her own hells and back to the other side...

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Singer-songwriter-author Janiva Magness makes a forceful return on June 24 with the release of Hard to Kill, the Los Angeles-based musicians first new collection in three years, on her own label Fathead Records.The seven-time Blues Music Awards recipient (and the 2009 B.B. King Entertainer of the Year, the Blues Foundations 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.LA Weekly named the volume its Book of the Month, while No Depression said, [Magness] plumbs her own emotional depths, carrying us with her through her own hells and back to the other side. Ultimately, Magness memoir is a story of hope and the refusal to let the worst experiences of life kill you.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 its a retrospective not just of my musical life, but of my life. At this point, with what Ive been through in my life, top to bottom, you know what, the gloves are off, and the rules are, there really arent any rules.

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