Laney Jones and the Spirits have big f*cking heart. It’s undeniable watching Jones, who usually
performs live as a trio on her gnarly 1960s Sears Roebuck Silvertone guitar with her life and
musical partner (Brian Dowd) holding the heartbeat on the drums. They’re “everything that’s
good about rock and roll” says GRAMMY-winning icon Lucinda Williams.
And like Williams, Jones’s road has been hard fought. Cutting their teeth on mics literally and
metaphorically across the US for the past decade, Jones’s free-wheeling, do-it-yourself lifestyle
is the stuff of modern folklore. With few prospects when the Florida-raised couple first moved to
Nashville in 2017, they made rent by stacking beers at the local Piggly Wiggly. A chameleon of
a songwriter, Jones has since found other ways to pay the bills, licensing songs for pop projects
to the likes of Guinness and Google, but the music the couple creates cuts deeper than that. It’s
personal.
Today Glide is offering an exclusive premiere of the video for Jones’ newest song, “Stay At Home,” which offers an acid lick taste of where the band is heading. With vocals that bring to mind artists like Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker, Jones balances her poignant songwriting with a grungy indie rock sound that veers from mellow to crashing. If the song title brings back bad pandemic-era memories, that is precisely the point as Jones uses hyperbole to question modern man’s true sense of reality and humanity.
Laney says of the song: “In AP Lit in school we had to write hyperbole about doing something that sounds terrible but you are trying to make it sound good. That was this song about getting stuck inside during the pandemic. Everything that we love is made with being around people and suddenly that was taken away. It took the humanity and beauty out of the world. The hidden thing is it’s bittersweet staying at home.”
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just love her. oohh that sultry….