South Australian singer-songwriter Jo Page returns with When We Knew Nothing, an upbeat, nostalgia-soaked country-pop single that leans into the sweet relief of not knowing everything yet. Warm, joyful and instantly relatable, the track reflects on youth, freedom, and the days when happiness arrived easily and left late.\u000f\u000fInspired by a line from Charles Bukowski \u2014 \u201cSadness is caused by intelligence; the more you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn\u2019t understand them\u201d \u2014 Page wrote the song as a feel-good glance back to childhood and young adulthood, when ignorance truly was bliss.\u000f\u000f\u201c When We Knew Nothing\u00a0captures the innocence of simpler times,\u201d Page says. \u201cThat feeling of wanting to go back to when life was lighter, more fun, and there was magic in everything. There\u2019s a line in the song, \u2018sweet like dumb days\u2019, and honestly, that\u2019s exactly what it tasted like.\u201d\u000f\u000fBuilt on warm guitars, sunlit melodies and an infectious sing-along chorus, When We Knew Nothing\u00a0balances joy with longing – a happy, nostalgia-filled bop built for car radios, summer nights, and singing with the windows down.\u000f\u000fFrom her hometown of Port Lincoln to festival stages across Australia, Jo Page brings more than 15 years of experience in the Australian music scene. She has shared stages with Daryl Braithwaite, Birds of Tokyo, Eskimo Joe and Shannon Noll. Blending soul, blues, rock and country, her music is driven by vivid storytelling – fierce one moment, achingly tender the next. After being accepted into Tamworth\u2019s CMAA Academy of Country Music, Aussie music legend Dobe Newton famously dubbed her \u201ca force of nature\u201d – a title she continues to live up to through raw, powerful vocals, grit and emotional honesty.\u000f\u000fReleased in November 2025, Page\u2019s debut single Fire in His Eyes\u00a0introduced audiences to her darker side – a cinematic, spaghetti western-tinged country-rock track produced by ARIA Award winner Matt Fell and co-written with Golden Guitar Award winner Kevin Bennett. In stark contrast, When We Knew Nothing\u00a0flips the coin, showcasing Page\u2019s versatility with a joyful, nostalgia-filled bop built for wide-open roads and making memories.\u000f\u000fOff stage, Page uses her platform to advocate for mental health awareness and champion honest conversations around healing and hope – work that earned her recognition as 2021 Active Citizen of the Year.\u000f\u000fWhether she\u2019s belting an anthem that rattles the back row or delivering a ballad that silences a room, Jo Page proves the most powerful stories often come from those brave enough to tell them.\u000f\u000fWhen We Knew Nothing\u00a0is serviced to radio on Monday 9 February and available on all streaming platforms Friday 13 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
South Australian singer-songwriter Jo Page returns with When We Knew Nothing, an upbeat, nostalgia-soaked country-pop single that leans into the sweet relief of not knowing everything yet. Warm, joyful and instantly relatable, the track reflects on youth, freedom, and the days when happiness arrived easily and left late.\u000f\u000fInspired by a line from Charles Bukowski \u2014 … Continue reading “Jo Page- When We Knew Nothing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions\/2655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}