Diana Jones

Singer/songwriter Diana Jones' country music is far from the mainstream brand. She performs the kind of literary, progressive, yet historically rich music (evocative of old-timey mountain music) that puts her in a league with predecessors such as Gillian Welch and Iris DeMent. Jones -- raised in New Jersey, Long Island, and Rhode Island (her father was a chemical engineer) -- is a northerner by rearing but a southerner by heritage, having been adopted as a baby. Jones left home as a teenager but was eventually able to rise above the down-and-out possibilities of her circumstan...