Without fail, if you attend a Jeni and Billy show, you are greeted by the folk duo as such:
Jeni: Hi, I’m Jeni, and this is my true love, Billy.
Billy: And I’m Billy, and this is my true love, Jeni.
That opening struck me the first time I saw them in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. You can see, not only onstage, but in getting to know …
You will be taken on a journey through the rural and suburban Deep South in Jefferson Ross’s latest album Isles of Hope, an acoustic collection of songs featuring tales of, “murderers, shoplifters, car thieves, hypochondriacs, a voodoo witch doctor, a legendary blind blues singer, winos, a dustbowl farmer, Noah, a pothead Tupperware selling mom and a pair of Siamese twins,” as Ross puts it in his notes on the making of the album. His vocal style and guitar playing are reminiscent of Delta blues, but his lyrics have a conversational quality that invites the listener to kick…
