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From The Desk Of Stone Jack Jones: The Joy Of Angel Olsen

By the time he reached 55, Stone Jack Jones had spent a lifetime as a carnie, ballet dancer, lute player and hundreds of other things, trying his luck from Buffalo Creek to Charleston to Boston to New York to Fort Worth to Atlanta to Nashville. Mostly, he made music—even if it was just playing on the street or at a nearly empty open mic. Then in 2003, he met Roger Moutenot, who’d engineered albums for They Might Be Giants and Yo La Tengo. And all of a sudden, something happened. Jones’ third album, Ancestor, is out now via Western Vinyl. He will also be guest editing all week. Read our new feature on him.

Jones: you always hope for the singer where there is nothing but the song and everything else disappears. fear, hope, time, hunger, etc., all disappear. just a complete connection between song and singing. angel has this, and it is captivating. standing like there is nowhere else to be, she delivers her songs. she can change the way one thinks about performance. there is no added junk like what do you think or what does anyone else think or there is no thinking after all. you are simply with the singer singing the song. everything else goes away. the occasional smile, the fooling with the tuning, the looking around to her mates who seem just as absorbed as she is. it is a moment that keeps replaying over and over in your imagination. and the romance. it is still there and keeps singing its songs. light and weight.