JoAndra

@joandra1.bsky.social

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JoAndra is my musical voice. I’m Andra Jo, a lifelong singer-songwriter and former bandleader, still writing at 82. Every song comes from my heart, my life, and my love of music, with AI-assisted recording helping me bring it all to life.

What I know about love that the songs got wrong
I joined a Facebook group and now I get one hundred emails a day and I cannot find the unsubscribe
Gray Hair Don't Care — promo 5
The specific horror of realizing your phone is almost dead and you have no charger
The songwriter who taught me the most never had a record deal
I tried to take a selfie and took forty seven photos of the ceiling instead
The Andra Jo night the microphone and I had a disagreement
Do You Remember — Willie Nelson
Someone told me my post had low engagement and I took it personally
82 years on the art of doing nothing and doing it well
I finally figured out what DM means and I am not sure how to feel about it
Carry You Home — promo 5
The internet showed me an ad for something I only thought about and did not search for and I need someone to explain this
What I am writing right now and what is coming next
Trying to describe a melody over the phone
The people who showed up
Everything I was wrong about when I started writing songs
Do You Remember — Merle Haggard
The difference between finishing a song and finishing a good song
The songs nobody heard for sixty years
Baby Don't You Lie — promo 4
Everything that has interrupted a song mid-verse
I asked my phone a question out loud by accident and it answered me and I screamed
The songs that keep finding you
I got a notification that someone tagged me in something and I still do not know what that means for me specifically
The sound of a county fair at dusk
I tried to add a caption to a photo and ended up writing a novel and I do not regret it
Explaining to people that I write songs for a living
Gray Hair Don't Care — promo 4
Thank you for July
I was trying to add a photo to a post and ended up somewhere I've never been before
What songwriting actually looks like — not what people think
Songs I started and abandoned in the last six months — a tribute
The Andra Jo gig where the pay was a meal and a handshake
Two camps — people who write it down vs. people who try to remember it
Carry You Home — promo 4
My phone updated itself at three in the morning and I woke up to a completely different phone
The songs that write themselves
Someone left a comment and I replied to myself by accident and now it looks intentional
I have had a mystery melody stuck in my head for three days
Every surface in my house has a lyric on it somewhere
Things I have been doing wrong for forty years and only just found out
82 years on the one thing I'd tell every young woman
The things people say when they find out you're 82 and making music
Someone told me to go viral and I am still trying to figure out what that means
Do You Remember — George Jones
I asked AI to write a song for me just to see what would happen
What I learned about love from writing about it for sixty years
The absolute chaos of writing a song in a moving car
My phone offered to remember my password and now neither of us knows what it is
Baby Don't You Lie — promo 3
The songs that got in before you understood them
I learned what a hashtag is supposed to do and I have been doing it completely wrong
What Saturday night sounds like at 82
I played back my 2 AM voice memo and I owe myself an apology
How I ended up on social media at 82 — the actual story
The Andra Jo night we played for eleven people and they all stayed
82 years on what nobody tells you about getting older
Things that are somehow still not songs but should be
I accidentally went live on Facebook and did not know it