Self-Portrait: Johanna Samuels

Artwork by Mickey Miles

For our Self-Portrait series, we invite our favorite musicians to create an audio depiction of themselves through songs from the past and present.

Just after the recent announcement of a new record Bystander created alongside Bonny Light Horseman’s Josh Kaufman and The Walkmen/Fleet Foxes’ Matt Barick, LA singer-songwriter Johanna Samuels guides us through an autobiographical suite of music by Nina Simone, Fruit Bats, Dylan, Aimee Mann & more that relay her affecting folk and soft rock expressions.