Janiva Magness
“Grammy-nominated and seven-time Blues Music Award winner” — Rock and Blues Muse
– Live and Onstage @ World Records Thursday March 27, 2025

Janiva Magness has built a career out of deeply connecting with her audience. Known for her commanding voice and ability to convey the complexities of love and loss, she has earned seven Blues Music Awards, including the coveted B.B. King Artist of the Year title, and received a Grammy nomination for Love Wins Again. Her journey from overcoming immense personal tragedies — to becoming one of the most celebrated blues artists today serves as a testament to her resilience and artistry..

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Magness is clearly deep in her own zone throughout Hard to Kill and delivers performances that are bold and brutally honest. “I feel like it’s a retrospective not just of my musical life, but of my life,” she says. “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.”

Now Janiva Magness returns with her newest single, “I Was Good to You Baby,” ahead of her forthcoming album expected for release in Spring 2025.

Written by the late Louisiana musician Dave Egan, “Good to You Baby” is a powerful anthem of heartbreak and resilience, delivered with Magness’s signature blend of raw emotion and refined musicality.

Quoting the song’s haunting lyrics, “I was good to you baby, You’ll find out someday… maybe,” Magness reflects with humor on the track’s emotional undercurrent: “Laughing at the pain, which we all need to do at some point or another,” she says. “If we’re lucky, we all learn that. ‘I was good to you, you idiot!’”

New album coming soon! – JANIVA MAGNESS – ‘Back for Me’

With Back for Me, seven-times Blues Music Awards winner Janiva Magness continues to renew and redefine her widely celebrated relationship with the music on a powerfully engaging, emotionally rich collection. Produced by her longtime guitarist and collaborator Dave Darling, the album is a treasure chest of lesser-known gems by well-known artists (Bill Withers, Ray LaMontagne, Allen Toussaint, Doyle Bramhall II, Tracy Nelson) and deep-dive discoveries brought through Magness’ voracious, wide-ranging searches for songs that connect with the deep feelings embodied in her voice and music, cherished by her fans.

It’s the 17th album for Magness, who in addition to those awards (including being named B.B. King Artist of the Year in 2009), earned a Grammy Awards Contemporary Blues nomination for her 2016 album Love Wins Again. It follows the 2019 publication of her memoir, Weeds Like Us, a vividly portrayed account of both the traumas of her youth (her parents’ suicides and her often-nightmarish experiences in the foster care system) and the hard-earned triumphs that have fueled her growth as an artist and in life, inspiration also found in her 2022 album Hard to Kill.

There’s heartache and heartbreak, but at the same time self-awareness and accountability and the strength and power that comes from that. In other words, it’s the blues. While in recent years she’s stepped forward more as a songwriter, this album echoes her early career strengths as an interpreter of others’ songs. But for Magness, the album is a rejoicing in how far she’s come in her life, with the knowledge of how she got here. On Back for Me, Magness goes back to her, back to some things deep in her, reconnecting and renewing things that have driven and empowered her through such a distinguished career.

“I’m happier in my life in many ways than I’ve ever been,” she says. “I’m more peaceful in my life than I’ve ever been, which I think will always be a surprise for me. But it doesn’t mean the experience of heartbreak in these songs goes away. It doesn’t go away. It just lives in a different spot in me.”

World Records will have the new Janiva Magness album as soon it is released! 

Both her music and her book were born from the memories of those times and she bleeds her story for all to hear because she’s an artist and that’s what artists do: they dispense truth.

Janiva uses a foundation of blues, funk, and soul sounds to send that truth out into the world and into the hearts of her many fans.

Janiva Magness, reaffirming her status as one of the top vocalists in the blues business and demonstrating her commitment to continually growing as an artist. Get these songs into your ears today!

Janiva Magness
– Live and Onstage
@ World Records Thursday March 27, 2025! 

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