Its no wonder that 22-year-old Johannesburg-born-and-raised Josie is so at ease with the songwriting process shes been writing as long as shes been playing guitar, and that was from the age of 15.
I just grew up with my parents music, from Joni Mitchell to Van Morrison, and Bob Dylan. That was the basis of my love for music, just going through my parents LPs. I had an uncle who went overseas and left his guitar at my house. I knew the three chords from House of the Rising Sun so I started with that and just taught myself. And I pretty much started writing songs at the same time.

Her early material found its feet in folk, and the genre is still a subtle thread that winds its way through the songs on Mercury. The fact that she attended Johannesburgs Michael Mount Waldorf School added to her belief in the possibility of creating something unique, something affecting and special using nothing more than her imagination and her guitar. You come out of a Waldorf school a lot freer I think and more in touch with who you are, although I think that if Id gone to any other school I would still be making music.

visit her at www.myspace.com/josiefield

Folk / Blues / Indie