As anyone who reads MM with any degree of regularity will no doubt know, we are recent and zealous new converts to the joys of Stone Jack Jones’ unsettling, haunting gothic-folk.
We’ve already shared three tracks from his new record, Ancestor, and here is a fourth, Joy that also features Patty Griffin on vocals and movingly tells the story of his mother in law’s last days and the beautiful Jamaican nurse, Joy, who comforted, fixed hair, and dispensed painkillers of all kinds.
Ancestor is out on the 18th March via Western Vinyl.
It’s got a great, raw feel…almost a little ominous
Ominous is one of our favourite things in a song…