Listed below are tracks from my first album "Love Jones". To download these tracks right click with your mouse and "Save target as." for IE or "Save link as." for all other browsers. Enjoy!
- Track 1: I Wonder
- Track 2: Love Jones
- Track 3: Melancholiac
- Track 4: Freedom Bound
- Track 5: Well Runs Dry
- Track 6: I Need To Know
- Track 7: I Guess This Is Goodbye
- Track 8: Outro
Hailing from New Orleans, Louisiana, Kelly Love Jones encompasses the cultural richness of her hometown in her music. With her own unique blend of acoustic guitar, folk, hip hop, blues, and poetry Kelly, who was voted "best emerging artist" at the Big Easy Awards has impressed audiences of music lovers both at home and overseas. Drawing inspiration for lyrics from her daily life experiences, Kelly has, for the past 12 years, used music as an emotional outlet, linking her with the hearts of her listeners through personal rhythmic reflection. In her own words, "It's the connection that makes the music worth making. Everything outside of that, as we say in New Orleans is lagniappe (extra)".
Kelly Love Jones broke into music by silencing the taunts of a doubtful friend. The young man, himself a rapper, claimed that "females couldn't rhyme." But Kelly could. Not only could she rhyme, freestyle and hold her own amongst the boys, but this New Orleans native also possessed the ability to transcend the widely perceived limitations of a "rap artist."
If only that young man could see her now, 3 continents and 4 albums later, he would be amazed at the musical maturity that has accompanied Kelly's development into womanhood; and to the comparisons which Kelly has drawn to such musical powerhouses as Sade and Lauryn Hill. Musical maturity. Absolutely! The mastery of her instrument and companion, her guitar, has fed Kelly's natural and time seasoned development into a composer and producer with the ability to create musical rhythms that serve as an inviting and enticing backdrop for her poignant poetry.
Kelly's poetic lyrics are testimony of the passion she has for her audience, and her determination to get her healing message across all the barriers that society has artificially erected. This passion always comes through with bright tones on stage. One account of a Kelly Love Jones performance is as follows: "Jones took it to the crowd hard with neo soul poetic slow grooves and hook laced aggressive hip hop numbers. On her soul songs, she opened up her spirit so easily that it was hard not to relate and enjoy the music. Her earnest, beautiful voice and Latin-tinged guitar tones hushed the crowd and drew them in."
For if there's one thing that can be said with certainty it's that Kelly's potential is as limitless as her aspirations, and the once exclusive MC turned singer-songwriter acknowledges no boundaries on her future direction. Among her objectives is the development of a sound that will allow her to "converse with the child within all of us," an objective which the young artist pursues by working with female youth groups and maintaining a refreshing simplicity in her music. True to her New Orleanean roots, and in her quest for that "basic sound," Kelly has even taken to creating percussion instruments and features many of her creations on her most recent project "Portrait of a Solo Artist."
Most recently Kelly was names Singer/Songwriter of the year for Creative Loafing Newspaper/Magazine.Kelly's fourth album features the familiar themes - love and relationships - that her listeners have grown accustomed to hearing from her, but added to these is a social consciousness largely derived from her experience as a Hurricane Katrina survivor. Now, issues of class and race and even gender regularly find homes in Kelly's music, as is the case in the scathing "They Really Don't N.O (Home)" in which she speaks directly about the realities of post-Katrina New Orleans. And while it may be argued that her perspective has broadened as a result of her experiences and recent travels, Kelly's focus has never changed from her days as a young MC. In the words of the recording artist/activist, "My music isn't about anything if it's not about change."
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Sankofa Rennaissance
Sankofa Renaissance: A New Tradition
By Carolyn Renée
Bringing back the tradition of sharing art in the living room is performing artist, Kelly Love Jones. Spring 2009 marks the launch of Kelly’s Living Room Concert Series. “Necessity is the mother of invention”; and as a new mother to baby Skye, Kelly is using the infancy period in little Skye’s life to strengthen her bond with him, and at the same time foster a creative connection between her art, and the people who love her music, and need a sense of connection through the arts in these challenging times.
For artists, tough times have long served as a catalyst to delve deeper into the hidden reservoir of their creativity. This was most evident during the period sometimes referred to as the, New Negro Art Movement or New Negro Renaissance—it was the Harlem Renaissance, a period marked by serious creative innovations. Current economic downturns in many ways reflect that of The Great Depression. The Depression served as a springboard leading many artists of the Harlem Renaissance period to the well of their creativity. The Harlem Renaissance was the blossoming of African-American culture in the creative arts, and literary arts.
We are coming together again, this time in the Sankofa Renaissance. Within the Sankofa Renaissance many creative spirits are forging the way, solidifying a new foundation for how community can come together in support of one another. Planetary artist, Kelly Love Jones is fiercely and boldly moving in the spirit of Sankofa, with baby-Skye-in-tow, she is not missing a beat in her effort to unite other artists in sharing, and uplifting the spirits of others through the arts. Like in the Harlem Renaissance period, within the Sankofa Renaissance, Kelly Love Jones is sharing in the intimacy of living rooms—doing as African foremothers and fathers, honoring the tradition of Sankofa, reaching back to our strong family and community traditions to bring forth stronger bonds among and between us.
Her art is her message, and her message is her art. Through the course of the remainder of 2009, Kelly Love Jones will join forces with a myriad of diverse artists in living rooms throughout the country to unite our humanity through her unique sound. Time is creativity, and now is the time to create in the spirit of Sankofa Renaissance, a new way of expressing the oneness of all people through the arts.
Posted on 02 Apr 2009 by klj
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