Uploaded by paganmaestro on Jul 9, 2011
This song, "Sister", is from Diana's most recent song collection, "High Atmosphere", her sixth album. You can learn more about Diana's music at her website: http://www.dianajonesmusic.com
Diana Jones was adopted as an infant and raised in New York. She was first drawn to country music in the early 1980s while attending high school on Long Island. While her peers were listening to Michael Jackson, Kenny Loggins and Prince she began to seek out recordings by Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline. She was also drawn to contemporary acts like Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris. After graduating from college Jones was reunited with her birth family in eastern Tennessee. It was there that she also gained a sense of her musical heritage when she discovered her grandfather, Robert Lee Maranville, was a talented singer and had been in a Knoxville band with Chet Atkins. "I found my first Smithsonian Folkways recording of Southern ballads up at Cades Cove in the Smokies on a drive with him", Diana told the Columbus Dispatch. "I put it in the CD player, and he started singing along and tapping his finger on his leg. He knew all those songs. I felt like I had discovered the source of what I had been trying to find musically."
In the 1990s Jones continued to develop as a writer and performer in the music scene around Austin, Texas She released two albums, signed a deal with Hamstein Publishing, and began to develop a grass roots following.
It was the death of Maranville in 2000 that caused her to move back to the northeastern United States and enter a period of personal reflection: "I wrote this last project [My Remembrance of You] in a cabin in the woods, trying to recover my balance after the loss of my grandfather. I was writing songs because I had to, for myself."
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I love her voice it's so organic and sincere. I sure hope her music prevails.Many thanks paganmaestro for bringing this lovely girl to our attention.
kernow234 5 months ago
Wonderful, thanks! Interesting background information about Diana.
nllleonard 7 months ago