Joss Stone’s seventh solo album Water for Your Soul arrives in stores today, via her label Stone’d Records, and features musical inspiration from around the globe. Stone is currently on a true world tour (a “Total World Tour,” as she calls it) with the intention of hitting every single country on Earth. She says Swaziland in southern Africa has been her favorite gig so far, and she has picked up new instruments in India and other countries, not to mention different styles of singing, sounds, scales and ways to record.

Stone’s albums have moved fluidly from different genres: she was an R&B phenom, then rock, then funk. This amalgamation of sounds—both from her tour and her past albums—is evident on the new album, which heavily encompasses, among other inspirations, roots reggae. As our Ericka Blount Dubois discovered upon speaking with the dynamic British vocalist recently, Stone has the gift of being the consummate music student, constantly bending her style, borrowing and giving back.

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NorthC said:

Every country? Somalia, Syria? I don't think so... I would love to see her in Laos or Ecuador or Senegal though...

Yep everywhere go on youtube you can see 2 concerts from this year. I'll buy it next week. The concerts had most of the new material and it great.