See Diana Jones perform live in NPR's Folk Alley Feature below.

"...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. The facts are still there—they provide the vivid details that allow us to imagine ourselves inside a collapsed mine shaft next to Henry Russell or in the dorm of an American Indian boarding school or in the Appalachian bus depot where a “Soldier Girl," with a green duffel bag over her shoulder, prepares to leave for boot camp. But the focus is always on the characters’ immense longing—of Henry for his wife, of the young Indian student for her father, of the new soldier for the lover left behind—the kind of longing we listeners can recognize, even if we’ve never been in a mine, an Indian school or a boot camp...." - Geoffrey Himes Read more -->