Despite the wonderfully crafted songs, the loose, lilting delivery that only comes from great musicianship and the channelling of vintage sounds, it is Laney’s amazing voice that grabs your attention first of all. Aptly described elsewhere (which I can’t improve on, so I won’t even try) as “a mix of lemon, molasses, gin and gunpowder” it seems to mix youthful innocence with a more worldly knowledge.
It is acts such as Laney Jones who will keep these older music traditions alive, root genres that have provided the platform and informed subsequent music and musicians. By breathing new energy and passion into them and giving them a slight re-package, she appeals to the traditionalist crowd but also finds new converts in more mainstream places. This album is the very essence of how music survives and remains relevant. All I can say is Alison Krauss, watch out!