OUT NOW: Jobi Riccio Learns How To Face The Feeling With New Album

Riccio's to Perform on The Kelly Clarkson Show on May 21, Summer Tour Dates With Deer Tick Begin June 10

Listen To The Album HERE & New Single "A Little At A Time" HERE

May 15, 2026 - Nashville-based songwriter Jobi Riccio has returned with her new album Face The Feeling, out today via Yep Roc Records. Co-produced by Riccio and longtime collaborators Isaiah Beard and Jesse Timm, the record vulnerably forges a new path - both sonically and thematically - for the Americana Honors & Awards Emerging Artist of the Year nominee and John Prine Songwriters Fellowship honoree. While her breakthrough debut album Whiplash chronicled growing pains at length, Face The Feeling wrestles with the good, bad, and ugly emotions head-on - all with piercing clarity and a fresh indie sound.

Opening the record is the heart-shattering ballad "A Little At A Time,"bittersweetly reflecting on the difficulty of long-distance relationships. Tracing memories from Nashville to St. Louis, Riccio looks back at small details that remind her of both love and absence, eventually reconciling with the grief distance can create: "My heart only breaks / A little at a time / … / If it's this or nothing / I'll choose a little every time."

"By the end of the song my grief has been confronted, and I'm able to recognize how beautiful it is to know a love so worth all the sacrifices," Riccio says.

"A Little At A Time" embodies how Face The Feeling confronts all the emotions - grief, self-doubt, desire, rage - that Riccio previously tried to outrun. As she chooses to sit inside discomfort rather than defy it, Riccio treats each emotion as something inescapable and illuminated, like a billboard flashing into view at full speed. "I've always been a pretty open book," Riccio says. "But allowing myself to be challenged and learning the power of letting go was a big part of developing this album."

Listen to Face The Feeling HERE , out now via Yep Roc.

Listen to "A Little At A Time" HERE .

Riccio first previewed the album with pre-release singles " Wildfire Season ," which Ann Powers deemed "protest music at its finest" in NPR Music's "Best Songs of 2025" list, and " The Ridge . " Earlier this year, she released the gritty " Buzzkill ," which Stereogum called "a spunky, catchy salt-of-the-earth rock song." Stereogum also noted: "We named Jobi Riccio's debut Whiplash one of the best country albums of 2023, though her music has at least as much to do with alternative rock." Watch the official "Buzzkill" music video HERE .

Written between Colorado and Nashville, Face The Feeling balances light and dark, restraint and release, ecstatic highs and mournful lows. From Riccio's hopeful love song "Idaho" to the slow-burning, anthemic closer "Doesn't Matter," the collection emerges as an exquisite excavation of self with sharp clarity and confidence. Strikingly, the quietly powerful single " Pilar, NM " features the album title in the lyrics - "Make myself turn and face the feeling / And sit inside of it" - and encapsulates the album's vulnerable core by unraveling both devotion and grief. Listen to "Pilar, NM" HERE .

Riccio will make her debut on The Kelly Clarkson Show on May 21 with a performance of "Wildfire Season." Previously, she has performed at the Grand Ole Opry, made her national television debut on CBS Saturday Morning, and toured with artists including Lucius, Jason Isbell, and Iron & Wine. With Face The Feeling, she pushes beyond expectation toward her most confident and expansive work to date.

Face The Feeling is out now via Yep Roc Records. Order here: https://jobiriccio.lnk.to/FaceTheFeeling

Riccio is heading out on tour with Deer Tick in June and John Craigie in October. Along with sets at Summerfest, Winnipeg Folk Festival, and Rocky Mountain Folks Festival, she will also perform as part of the "Songwriters Celebrate John Prine" special event on June 9 at Wolf Trap outside of DC. Other confirmed performers include Emmylou Harris, Margo Price, Patty Griffin, I'm With Her, Lucius, Allison Russell, Tommy Prine and more. Please visit https://www.jobiriccio.com/ for more information.

Face The Feeling Tracklist

1. A Little at a Time
2. The Ridge
3. Pilar, NM
4. Love of the Song
5. Buzzkill
6. Wildfire Season
7. Coyote
8. Idaho
9. High Beam
10. Easy
11. Doesn't Matter

Jobi Riccio 2026 Tour Dates

June 9 - Wolf Trap - Vienna, VA

June 10 - Underground Arts - Philadelphia, PA*

June 12 - The Atlantis - Washington, DC*

June 13 - Thunderbird Cafe & Music Hall - Pittsburgh, PA*

June 14 - The Ludlow Garage - Cincinnati, OH*

June 16 - Thalia Hall - Chicago, IL*

June 17 - Fine Line - Minneapolis, MN*

June 18 - The Current's Happy Hours @ Sociable Cider Werks - Minneapolis, MN*

June 20 - El Club - Detroit, MI*

June 21 - The Opera House - Toronto, ON, Canada*

June 23 - Bearsville Theater - Woodstock, NY*

June 24 - Daily Brew Coffee House & Lounge - Falmouth, MA

June 25 - State Theatre - Portland, ME*

June 26 - Royale - Boston, MA*

June 27 - Schenley Plaza - Pittsburgh, PA

July 2 - Summerfest 2026 - Milwaukee, WI

July 9 - Winnipeg Folk Festival - Oakbank, MB, Canada

August 7 - Rocky Mountain Folks Festival 2026 - Lyons, CO

October 7 - Bush Hall - London, UK^

October 9 - Sound House - Dublin, Ireland^

October 10 - The Deer's Head - Belfast, UK^

October 12 - Stereo - Glasgow, UK^

October 14 - YES - Manchester, UK^

October 15 - Voodoo Daddy's - Norwich, UK^

October 17 - A L P H A B E T - Brighton And Hove, UK^

October 18 - Supersonic Records - Paris, France^

October 22 - Ideal Bar - København, Denmark^

October 24 - Nalen Klubb - Stockholm, Sweden^

October 26 - Belleville, Oslo - Oslo, Norway^

*Supporting Deer Tick

^Supporting John Craigie

For more information, please contact Taylor Perry ( [email protected] ).