Laurie Jones, a singer and songwriter whose warm, gritty blend of adult alternative, country, folk, and rock carries echoes of Tom Petty, Lucinda Williams, and Sheryl Crow, first surfaced in the early 2000s with After the Crash. She maintained an active schedule of recording and touring alongside her backing musicians, issuing further works that included the self-titled LP from 2007. The 2016 anthology The Truth About Her compiled key selections from her opening fifteen years of solo output, a period that included frequent road work throughout the Northeast, Maritime Canada, and the U.K. She attributed 2017’s Bridges to the Laurie Jones Band, then returned to recording simply as Laurie Jones with the arrival of Dark Horse in 2021.
A native of Lubec, Maine, Laurie Jones began appearing with regional country bands while still a child, encouraged by her grandmother, and had assembled her own rock group by her teens. She issued the solo album After the Crash at the start of 2001. The full-band set, shaped by blues, rock, and country, was followed two years later by Better Days in 2003. After exhaustive touring with her musicians, she returned to Portland, Maine, to cut the 2007 release Laurie Jones.
Following an extended recording hiatus, she assembled the 2016 collection The Truth About Her. Early the next year it was succeeded by Bridges, which she credited to the Laurie Jones Band. Her next project, 2021’s Dark Horse, was tracked in Windham, Maine, and became her first to involve outside producers Darren Elder and Mehuman Ernst.
