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Old-time fever continues to rage across the Americana spectrum, but, with the exceptions of Gillian Welch and Alison Krauss, few evoke the stoicism of country music’s early years as convincingly as Diana Jones. Museum of Appalachia Recordings was recorded live in a cabin at Tennessee’s Museum of Appalachia, with two sidekicks and a crackling fire, but its sound (guitar, fiddle, banjo) is rich, the playing faultless and Jones’s distinctive vocals imperious. The songs are Jones’s own, though the likes of O Sinner and Satan sound as if they have come from a Carter family hymnal. Better are her cameos of exile (Ohio), hard labour (Sparrow) and heartache (Tennessee), the last making the tart observation that “a promise and a ring are dangerous things”.She‘s describing Peter’s Homestead Cabin at the Museum Of Appalachia, where this recording was made. The cabin is one of 30 buildings that have been rescued from neglect and dereliction and moved to the Tennessee living history museum, partnered with the Smithsonian institution. A genuinely odd coincidence suggests that Chet Atkins used to live across from the original location, even casting an envious eye over the cabin, which was much larger than his own homestead. As Diana reveals, “My grandfather had his first band at 15 with Chet Atkins and they played on the Cas Walker radio and dancehall circuit. When I walked into the museum there was a display honoring Chet and next to it one for Cas. It just felt right.”

Tracklisting:
1. O Sinner
2. Drunkard’s Daughter
3. Song For A worker
4. Sparrow
5. Ohio
6. Love O Love
7. Orphan’s Home
8. Goldmine
9. Satan
10. Tennessee
11. The Other Side

Extra Informatie:
Aantal Discs: 1xCD
Genre: Country, Folk, Americana
Format: MP3 @ 320kbit
Year of Release: 2013
Speelduur: 34 minuten
Cover: Front is in de RARs verwerkt