Vancouver native and songwriting prodigy Miriam Jones is excited to announce the release of her new album Between Green And Goneon Feb 2, 2015. She will be showcasing the new material whilst providing support for Roddy Frameon his December UK tour (full details below).

Between Green And Gone is a concise collection of poignant short stories in song form delivered with a grit & warmth that puts Jones firmly in the Bonnie Raitt & Joan Osborne class of tough but soulful exponents of Americana roots music.

With influences that include Patti Smith, Norah Jones and Alanis Morissette, Jones has been praised for impressive live shows and has been described in recent reviews as “Springsteen in a Kitchenette”.

A native of British Columbia, part of Miriam’s childhood was spent in Papua New Guinea where her dad was teaching at a theological college. That’s where she was, at eight years old, up a tree in fact, when she wrote her first song. Her mum, who grew up in Nashville had various cassettes around from the home of country music and Miriam spent a lot of her childhood there visiting her grandparents.

Some years later Miriam eventually found herself back in Nashville making a record with Grammy award winning producer Charlie Peacock at the controls. The resulting album Being Here (2008), was anything but a cookie-cutter Country record, the mixture of Folk-Pop styling’s and classic songwriting redolent of the greats of early 70’s southern California. Miriam’s follow-up album Fire-Lives, in late 2010, was recorded live in her Oxford terrace with a band of bass, drums, electric guitar and Miriam’s own acoustic guitar and straight-forward piano. A couple of tracks from the album were subsequently rerecorded at Abbey Road and brought her to the attention of broadcasters, critics and listeners across the country.

In the making of the new record Miriam teamed up with Simon Edwards (Fairground Attraction, Billy Bragg etc) who as well as producing the new songs became the first member of her new band. The resulting new album Between Green And Gone contains ten, four-minute tales, featuring characters that could have leaped straight from the pages of Anne Tyler or Raymond Carver.