Pianist and singer/songwriter Jillette Johnson makes melodic, ruminative contemporary pop music largely centered around her resonant vocals and classically influenced piano parts. Born in California, Johnson grew up in Pound Ridge, New York. She began playing piano when she was a child, and by age 12 was already performing her own songs in clubs around New York City. She released her debut EP, Whiskey & Frosting, in 2012. Her debut full-length album, Water in a Whale, appeared on Wind-Up Records in 2013. Johnson released her sophomore long-player, All I Ever See in You Is Me, produced by Dave Cobb in Nashville's famous RCA Studio A in 2017 to critical acclaim.
Jillette returns with her first new music in three years. The hard-won optimism of Jillette Johnson’s third studio album, It’s A Beautiful Day And I Love You, couldn’t have come without tremendous upheaval. “It would have been easy to lean into the melancholy,” she says. “It was an act of rebellion to not indulge in the pain, to look beyond it and not wallow.” It’s a Beautiful Day and I Love You carries harmonic and emotional heft in the vein of Patty Griffin’s Flaming Red or Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark. There’s an open-heartedness in the Nashville-based Johnson’s songs, the kind of deeply experienced inner peace that results from a journey through vulnerability, pain, and struggle to gratitude, forgiveness, and, ultimately, acceptance.
