The year is 2021.
My parents listen to Ariel Pink. They tell me we can’t trust the government.
I listen to Jimmy Buffet. I tell my parents to turn off the TV and go outside for a change.
The tables truly have turned. 🔮
One time my mom sat next to Andre 3000 at the bar of the Italian restaurant by her office in Dallas. She didn't know who he was. They hung out and had dinner together and watched sports on TV. She said he was so nice. I love him for this and am stoked for the flute album 🪈
Today I get to let y’all in on a big secret I’ve been keeping for a while now. I started a band with my dear friend
@k_crutchfield
. We’re called Plains and our album I Walked With You a Ways is out Oct 14 on
@AntiRecords
! 🦋🦋
The world just got a little smaller!!
@jackantonoff
posted on IG that Hunter was his top song of the year on spotify. I simply cannot 😭 Please internet do your thing and someone ask him to show Taylor 🥲. Thank you Jack Antonoff for the support!! 🫶
We sold out the Bowery Ballroom. 🥹🥲 While we were onstage I flashed back to playing a show to 15 people at The Cake Shop (rip) a few blocks away in 2015. Music is a long game. So grateful 🙏
I am so happy to tell you my new album, Time Ain't Accidental, is out June 9th on
@MexicanSummer
!
The first single, Hunter, is streaming everywhere now.
🌩️🌩️🌩️
My new album, Sorceress, is out now. I am grateful beyond words to invite you into my little corner of the world. Where we dance with tears in our eyes in a candle lit smoke filled room, somewhere near the Gulf of Mexico of your mind. Thank you for the love so far - I feel it.
Happy to announce my North American tour dates for 2024! Presale starts tomorrow at 10am local times, you can sign up for presale access here:
All tickets go on sale Friday at 10am local times.
Cant wait to see y'all soon! 🌩️ 🌩️
Happening now at the University of Texas in Austin:
Peaceful students are chanting “You don’t scare us” and “Free, free Palestine” in the face of militarized state troopers.
I want to tell you my one Norm Macdonald story. My aunt took me on a trip to LA when I was in 5th grade. We were touring a studio and ran into Norm. My aunt told him that I wanted to be an actress someday. He bent down to my level, looked me in the eyes, and said “you will”. 🙏
Guys my tour manager said we can stop at Niagara Falls today after we cross the Canadian border!! I am SO excited. I’ve always wanted to go and believe it or not previous tour managers have denied me this luxury
Sorceress came out 3 years ago today. 🧙♀️ Horrible career timing, incredible spiritual timing. Thank you to everyone who reached out & told me these songs helped them through those dark days. Your support helped me in the dark days, too. God bless music!
Thank you
@mexicansummer
!
I finally upgraded to a nice acoustic guitar and I am in love!! Thank you to the kind people at
@gibsonguitar
for helping me out with this. Cant wait to play it live and I’ve already started a new song her. 🥲🥰🙏
@jessswilliamson
loving your new record time ain’t accidental! should the 6/9 release j’s hit the road someday?
@JasonIsbell
also, weathervanes is siiiick
listening to both today on repeat
BLESS!
I am loving all the Taylor Swift comparisons! I never would have predicted this, since I wasn't familiar with her music until I saw her live this summer. Now I'm a big fan. She's amazing. 🫶
19/30
#BestOf2023
🗓️ June 9, 2023
💿 Jess Williamson - Time Ain't Accidental
❤️ The greatest album Taylor Swift never made.
#JessWilliamson
is my country queen of the year.
🎶 Is it a one-time dream or a country queen that you take me for?
Amazing mail day! Just got my copies of my new album from the
@MexicanSummer
🥹
I'm so proud to share this music with y'all.... Time Ain't Accidental is out June 9th.
Link to pre-order is in my bio. See you super soon on the road!
I always enjoy sharing my end of year music playlist with all of you — and this year we heard a lot of great songs. Here are some of my favorites.
Are there any songs or artists I should check out?
just remembered how in 2019 before i released this song, a music industry person i was working with at the time advised me to cut the first 7 seconds of this song because, and i quote, he said "people hate music"
I recorded a Daniel Johnston song w/
@ShakeyGraves
! Our cover of “True Love Will Find You in the End” is streaming everywhere now. It's part of the Texas Wild album, a compilation of Texas artists covering other TX artists, and it benefits
@TPWDparks
❤️🔥
🦋 Happy Plains day, y’all! “I Walked With You a Ways” is out everywhere now!!🦋
Stream the record all day and buy it on vinyl and get your mom and dad and grandma a CD, then come see us at the shows! Tour starts in a week!🤠Let’s go girls!🦋✨
It’s not on the internet anymore but the first story i photographed for vice was also
@HamiltonMorris
’s first story he wrote for them without a pseudonym. We took LSD with Hasidic Jews and the photos were horrible bc I was tripping. It was 2008. RIP vice.
This thing has been happening where I make brownies and they kind of give off a healthy savory vibe so I kinda just snack on them throughout the day, do yall know what I mean? Like this just feels healthy for some reason
Today we release Abilene, a new song from Plains. It’s one that I wrote and very close to my heart. 🦋
Thank you to my friends
@yogawithadriene
and
@Jonathan_Tyler
for starring in the video, and to
@k_crutchfield
for believing in this song from day one.
Night off baby! I love grabbing my book, brewing a hot cup of tea, and cozying up in the back lounge of the bus to stare at my phone for an hour with the book by my side 🥰
my Twitter is just retweets lately sorry that’s so boring so here’s a pic of me in the cockpit yesterday when my flight to Denver got diverted to South Dakota!
it's been SO exciting & cool to see my record pop up on critics & music journalists year end lists. BUT this one takes the cake: the
@nprmusic
listeners poll! 🥲
bc connecting w/the fans is the only thing that ever really matters in the end. THANK YOU!
all my tours got canceled and i couldn't play any of my record live but i just got all my demoes together and it turns out i wrote 21 songs this year 🧙♀️
i tried to explain to my boyfriend how crazy it is that an episode of the adam friedland podcast (he's never heard of it) directly lead to an entire taylor swift album and he said "i dont know who matty hinkley is and i dont care" and this is why i love him
Honk if you’re hunting for the real thing! 🔔 I made these super cute tanks for the tour and I’m obsessed 🥲 we start tomorrow in Phoenix! Who is coming???? Say hi
Time Ain’t Accidental, the title track, is out today! I wanted to capture those early butterfly feelings, when you’re leaning into a brand new connection, you have no idea what it is or where it’s going, and you’re intoxicated by the mystery and thrill of it all. ⛈️✨
Announcing my Deep in the Heart Tour ❤️. Something special I’ve been wanting to do for a long time, I’ll be coming home to Texas for a string of shows in June.
Presale starts tomorrow at 10 AM CT. You can sign up at
General onsale is Friday at 10am CT.
opening Instagram is like: new music video out, someone’s baby, ex boyfriend, dog rescue video from an account I don’t follow, then somehow the next thing I know I’m online shopping
a wholesome thing is when someone’s parents give you verbal step by step directions to a place and you patiently wait for them to finish, not listening to a single word, bc you already have it plugged into google maps
.
@mrsslrss
absolutely nailed it with this brilliant piece about my new record for
@nprmusic
🥲 when you make a record and pack it full of layers and easter eggs it means the world to read something like this and feel witnessed & understood. thank you🫂
I ♥️ doing press. Just had two beautiful back to back conversations about my album. It’s an honor to get to speak about my work! Thank you to all the outlets covering my new music. 🙏 I really cant wait for y’all to hear the whole record, June 9 is right around the corner 🌩️🌩️
“She’s dressed like a hipster who stumbled across the Little House on the Prairie” -
@guardian
😂😂
Incredible and true
Thanks for the really nice review of my show last night!!
I spend a lot of time driving between California & Texas. It's a big part of my life and a major theme on my new record. The last song on TAA is called Roads! Here is my playlist of 100% road tested and approved songs. Hit shuffle and hit the road 🛣️
My lyrics are the most important part of the songs for me, so we made a lyric video to go along with the full album stream 🌀⛈️🌪️🌊🛣️🌀
You can watch it here:
You better believe we’re takin this show on the road! Full US tour this fall with
@MarkJLenderman
opening. Tickets below. Whose coming?? 🤠🦋 🚌
📷: molly matalon
design by mike krol
Every songwriter knows that feeling when you have a new demo that you listen to on repeat constantly convinced its the greatest thing you've ever done, only to have your heart shattered when the first person you show it to says "sounds pretty cool cant wait to see where it goes"