Song to a refugee

"Tender testimony to bruised lives ... Jones's sorrowful vocals bear witness to the dreams and hardships of those crossing the US-Mexico border".

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"After five fine albums of Appalachian-tinged folk songs, Diana Jones felt too devastated by the horror of Trump's election to respond creatively ... [Now], this brilliant cycle of narrative songs (...) gives voice to the world's dispossessed and exiled and seeks to "re-humanise the people who are being de-humanised by governments and the press." "El Chaparral" is about a desperate family that sells its worldly possessions to pay people smugglers. "I Wait For You" is the tale of an asylum seeker in a detention centre separated from her children ... In "The Sea is My Mother" a leaky boat carrying the dispossessed to what they hope is a new life sinks with its human cargo, while "Love Song to a Bird" envies winged creatures for whom there are no borders. Jones inhabits her characters with a heart-breaking conviction and Steve Earle, Richard Thompson and Peggy Seeger are among those adding their voices".