![]() It’s impossible to ignore how self-assured she sounds during our conversation, like a lady who’s got to grips with the fame game. The new album, released on the Blue Note label, mostly features new songs penned by Jones, as well as covers of a Duke Ellington tune and the Neil Young song ‘Don’t Be Denied’. You can always lie about it if you don’t want people to read too much into it!” I think if something inspires a song, go for it, put it all out there. You can be inspired by something personal and turn it into a story - every detail doesn’t need to be the truth, it’s still a piece of art. And while it might inspire a song, it’s not my diary. ![]() “I do find it frustrating that people read into that more than was necessary,” she says. Yet the manner in which her previous album was pigeonholed as a break-up album has left its mark. While a notoriously private person - we still don’t know the identity of her musician partner for starters - it’s inevitable these events have influenced Day Breaks ‘And Then There Was You’ is a simple, late-night love song, but one which speaks volumes about her contentment. Since her last album Little Broken Hearts in 2012 she’s found love again, become a mother of two, and dealt with the death of her semi-estranged father, famed Indian musician Ravi Shankar. Now 37, her personal life has forged forward too. “Trying new things for me is an important experience,” she says of her collaborations. ![]() She also worked with a range of peers from Ray Charles to Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, an unlikely pairing with whom she recorded an even unlikelier Everly Brothers tribute album. In the intervening years, she explored her soulful sound over four more albums, all of which earned top 20 status in Ireland, and which added acoustic guitar, country music and indie pop to her blend. ![]()
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