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Diana Jones is an American singer-songwriter based in Nashville, Tennessee. Jones's career gained wider critical acclaim in 2006 with the release of her album, ''My Remembrance of You''. The album made a number of critics end-of-the-year "best of" lists. The ''Chicago Tribune'' rated the album as the "best country recording of 2006" and described Jones as "an Americana gem", whose sound rides "an old-timey vibe that never sounds fussy, ... in a voice subtly shaded by the high lonesome sound."〔Chrissie Dickinson, "The Best of 2006: Music Recordings: Country: No substitute for experience", ''Chicago Tribune'', December 10, 2006 ((article ))〕 Jones has also won a number of songwriting competitions including the venerable "New Folk" competition at the 2006 Kerrville Folk Festival. Her song "Pony" was nominated as "Song of the Year" by the North American Folk Alliance, and Jones herself was nominated as "Emerging Artist of the Year" for 2006.〔Kim Ruehl, "Nominees for the Second Annual North American Folk Alliance Awards", folkmusic.about.com ((article ), ceremony to be held February 21, 2007)〕 == Biography == 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.〔Bill Eidhenberger, "Preview of Diana Jones: Love of folk a tradition for writer, her family", ''Columbus Dispatch'', January 17, 2007 ((article ))〕 She was also drawn to contemporary acts like Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris.〔(Official Biography ) from dianajonesmusic.com, accessed January 22, 2007〕 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", Jones explained to 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,〔(Hamstein ), publisher, official site〕 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 (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."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Diana Jones (singer-songwriter)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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