Diana Jones - High Atmosphere

Diana Jones has always had an odd affinity for traditional the rural mountain songs of the South, but growing up an adopted daughter on Long Island she never understood why. In the late 90's she finally met her grandfather, a guitarist and lover of Appalachian music, who introduced her to the area that her family had laid roots and her cultural background. When he died in 2000, Jones changed her musical direction, digging deep into the musical traditions that she had come to regard as her birthright. "Once I started writing these songs...they came through in what felt like a channeled sort of way," she reflects, "as if they'd come from somewhere else..."

In 2006 she released My Remembrance of You, a fitting memorial to her grandfather and an album that set her on a new, critically acclaimed path. Nominated as Best Emerging Artist at the Folk Alliance Awards, receiving major ink from the likes of the New York Times, Jones became a major new voice in Americana. Her new album High Atmosphere (April 5, Proper American), has an even more personal tone, directing her mountain ballads at events like the flooding of Nashville where she now makes her home -- on the top of hill, thankfully...a happenstance that helped spark the album's title. Produced by Keith Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show, High Atmosphere skillfully meshes the genre's plucked acoustic down home traditions with the low-keyed creations of a gifted modern songwriter. It also doesn't hurt that lovely, mournful ballads such as "Poor Heart" and "My Love Is Gone" are blessed with Jones' warm, natural voice.

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Diana Jones - "High Atmosphere" (from the album High Atmosphere)

Diana Jones - High Atmosphere Sampler ("I Don't Know," "My Love Is Gone," "Poor Heart" excerpts)