WHO could award this vocal luminary anything fewer than a full five stars?

While Soul Sessions, her first album, was a triumph to her exquisite and extraordinary voice, Mind Body and Soul is a tribute to her song-writing skills and all-round musicality.

Her voice, which sounds like it owes more to gin-swilling and cigar-puffing than hours practising scales, truly belies Joss's tender years.

It is the voice of an older woman and a voice which I could listen to for hours - and have done since her first album of spectacular covers.

So team this glorious sound with her own interesting lyrics that speak from the heart and you have another winner.

With 15 tracks, she certainly gives us our money's worth and takes us on a whole gamut of emotions.

Some more mature types might be put off by the thought of all those words oozing teenage angst but, luckily, Joss is no Avril Lavigne with all the sulking and whining.

Instead we hear lines, particularly in Less Is More and Understand, which are just as applicable to older people in love as their greener counterparts.

Roll on her next offering.

SCC