Diana Jones may be firmly rooted in America, both musically and geographically, but right now it's the UK that's been going crazy for her. Her album, 'Better Times Will Come' (out in the US May 19th via Proper American) has been getting rave reviews, and her packed concerts there in the last few weeks have been charming journalists. Here's some of what we've been reading.
"[Diana Jones'] songs sound as if they were brought to the Appalachians by the earliest Scots-Irish settlers. The archaic language of “lust masquerading as love . . . three blooms to carry but none to flower” felt timeless. . . At the end, she stepped forward, off the stage and away from the microphone, and stood just in front of the audience singing unaccompanied and unamplified. It encapsulated the evening; at once intimate and courageous."
-- Financial Times"Working on the same borders of country and folk as Nanci Griffith and Kate Campbell, Jones' story-telling songs sound like they've spent a couple of generations being marinated on an Appalachian porch."
-- Uncut"[Diana Jones'] has the haunting purity of voice of [Iris] DeMent and the casual intensity of [Gillian] Welch. The overall effect is beguiling rural folk that has an unadorned honesty that drives right to the heart."
-- Maverick "Like Gillian Welch, Jones carries with her a flavour of a bygone era: spare acoustic backings and flinty tales about folks fallen on hard times, delivered in a distinctive voice. . . There's resignation but also hope in their stories, elegant accompaniment from fiddle and mandolin, and buoyancy in her drawling vocals."
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