We’re loving the slow pace and unsettling, woozy Americana of Stone Jack Jones’ State I’m In and Black Coal, both brilliant tasters from his third album Ancestor.

The descendent of four generations of coalminers and rejected from seeing service in Vietnam, he became a wandering musician and by the time he eventually put down some roots in Nashville he had had worked as a carny, an escape artist, a ballet dancer, a professional lute player, and even owned a strip club. It is these experiences that inform and illuminate the record – reflective, languorous and spooky, it is wonderfully good, In fact it is the kind of discovery that made us want to start a blog in the first place.

Watch the video, and download/stream both tracks below. Ancestor is out on Western Vinyl at the beginning of March.

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