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“Increasingly compared to the likes of Iris DeMent and Gillian Welch, Jones just might be the best American songwriter most people have never heard of." Chicago Tribune

"It goes without saying, Diana Jones is a consummate singer and writer,who totally charms audiences.   What sets her apart - and this is the highest praise in a crowded music profession - is her originality. Her music doesn't sound like anyone else's." Richard Thompson 

In 2007 Diana Jones was nominated as Best Emerging Artist at the Folk Alliance Awards. That recognition led to the tours with Richard Thompson and Mary Gauthier, to the recordings of her songs by Joan Baez and Gretchen Peters, to the appearances at folk festivals on both sides of the Atlantic and to her powerful new album, Better Times Will Come.
     
Diana is an important new songwriting voice because 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 concise, economical words, yes, but it's also in her hymn-like melodies, so simple and so sturdy, and in the keening sound of her drawling alto. On this album, the distillation process is more thorough than ever and the liquor of emotion that much more potent.

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