The album title "Forward Back Home" may be a bit confusing at first - forwards and backwards at the same time? But that's exactly what it means. With these 12 new songs Jolina Carl takes the next step "forward", as a singer, as a songwriter, as a musical designer. The own pieces and the selection of foreign compositions and cover versions, plus the two duets with Grammy winner Billy Yates and country shooting star Ray Scott from the USA, all of this has the highest format and reveals its enormous potential. She offers a stylistic spectrum ranging from bluegrass and funky rhythms to jazzy sounds and traditional country pop. At the same time, she also reflects on "back home" to transform her own world, the diverse thoughts, the palette of feelings into songs and music. Forward Back Home" is probably the most personal of her four albums so far. She tells stories about her deceased father, describes her "encounter" with Johnny Cash - she had a guest appearance on exactly the same farm on which the legend always retired to songwriting -, sings about her on-the-road experiences or about those values that slowly but surely get lost in the digital age. The three cover songs fit almost perfectly into this lyrical spectrum: "Get Rhythm" by Johnny Cash in a rocking version, "Valerie" by Amy Winehouse in bluegrass garb, "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen - the (so far missing) courage to have finally recorded the latter song has now paid off completely. The complete album was recorded in Nashville, produced by Thomm Jutz in his TJ Tunes studio. Some of the first Nashville session cracks, such as Mark Fain, Scotty Sanders and Pat Bergeson, worked with Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Taylor Swift, Tommy Emmanuel and Marty Stuart among others.
