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Diana Jones combines traditional mountain and old-time sounds with a literate, character-driven brand of storytelling on her new album, Better Times Will Come. If the reaction of her fellow songwriters is any indication, she's produced something of a masterpiece. Two of the songs from her new record have been covered by some of the nation's most recognizable folk artists.
Better Times Will Come uses deceptively simple lyrics which tell their stories with the hypnotic repetition and plain speech of old mountain song. Pay closer attention, though, and you’ll hear a modern literary voice working with irony and implication.
This is what makes Diana Jones such an important new songwriting voice. She is able to take the facts of other people’s lives or of her own and distill them into the fine whiskey of feeling.
That feeling is there in Diana’s economical words, her hymn-like melodies, so simple and so sturdy, and in the keening sound of her drawling alto.
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TRACK LISTING
1 Better Times Will Come 2:53
2 All God's Children 3:44
3 Henry Russell's Last Words 4:24
4 If I Had a Gun 3:41
5 Soldier Girl 2:59
6 Cracked and Broken 3:16
7 Ballad of the Poor Child 2:34
8 Appalachia 3:45
9 Evangelina 3:11
10 Somthing Crossed Over 4:00
11 The Day I Die 2:55
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