BRAND NEW ALBUM FROM JACK JOHNSON OUT
MAY 31ST
“I can’t tell you anything but the truth.” These words, sung by Jack Johnson in his latest studio album, To The Sea, define the ethos of a man born and raised in the middle of the Pacific Ocean
You could say it was a father’s solo sail from California to Hawaii that opened his son’s future fate and underpinned it with a personal mythology, but it was Jack’s ability to learn his own lessons from life and the sea that birthed his astonishing alchemy of music and poetry.
Truth has found plenty of room to breathe in each of Jack’s albums (and in all of his work, from surfing films to his nonprofit, the Kokua Hawaii Foundation), and it comes home to a deeper heart in To The Sea. Here, with his brothers in music – Adam Topol (drums), Merlo Podlewski (bass), and Zach Gill (piano and melodica) – he’s on a journey to the center of himself, and to all of us.
Jack’s music has a way of winning you over and bringing you back into yourself, which is to say that his music and lyrics have universality. He’s found a language that goes to the heart, borne on music that seems to bridge lost connections. If not exactly explaining, this effect at least points to his worldwide appeal and his way of bringing all sorts of people together. Jack Johnson’s music is like something contagious that’s also good for you.
