Spotlight On: SARAH JAROSZ

ABOUT this week’s podcast guest + radio hour featured interview:

It will be fifteen years ago this May that Texas-born singer, songwriter, mandolin player, and multi-instrumentalist, Sarah Jarosz turned 18 and a month later released her debut album Song Up In Her Head, co-produced by Grammy-winning producer and engineer Gary Pazcosa - who had also signed Sarah to Sugar Hill Records - and featuring an impressive, star-studded list of contributors including Chris Thile, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Tim O’Brien, and her future I’m With Her bandmate, Aoife O’Donovan. She was immediately hailed as a bluegrass prodigy, reviewed by Rolling Stone and interviewed by Morning Edition, earning her first Grammy nomination for a song from that album the following year - a feat she has now repeated ten times for her solo work, winning four, as well as two nominations and one win for a song by I’m With Her. Now a month away from her 33rd birthday, Sarah Jarosz joins us on SHEROES and reflects on her journey thus far - starting her career in her teens and early 20’s, the importance of joining forces with Aoife O’Donovan and Sarah Watkins to form I’m With Her, and how her new album, Polaroid Lovers, her seventh studio release, finds her both breaking new ground by deciding to invite co-writers to work with for the first time, while simultaneously bringing her full circle to those early days.