Sarah Jarosz - If Not Now, When?

We are so excited to bring you this conversation with Sarah Jarosz, one-third of the amazing group I’m With Her. Together with Sara Watkins and Aoife O’Donovan, Sarah has created a truly special band. Their new record, Wild and Clear and Blue, is stunning–the harmonies, of course, are magical, but I think the band explored the instrumentation in their music in really interesting new ways. Sarah gives some of the credit to producer Josh Kaufman, but I also think that the length of time these songs had to incubate gives them a richness that some other projects don’t have. As Sarah talks about in our conversation, their first writing session for this album was in 2021, and the songs have a spacious, unhurried feel to them that perhaps was a byproduct of the span of time the band was working on them. 

I’m With Her is on tour this summer, both at festivals and with Iron & Wine, and they are all over the country in September and October too. Hope you enjoy this conversation, and be sure to listen to the end for Sarah’s contribution to our BEST SONG EVER playlist!