Durand Jones - Wait Til I Get Over

Available on limited Blue Jay wax with 20-page booklet  Wait Til I Get Over passes story down from (and heaps homage upon) Durand Jones’s hometown of Hillaryville, Louisiana. Here, on his debut solo album, Jones lays us several courses and flavors of sound that are all distinctly Southern and Black—rhythms heavy with raw, Delta grit; bright exhalations of church spirituals; even tender, cadent spoken word. Taken as a whole, Wait Til I Get Over  is a mesmerizing new addition to Southern Black music, affirming Jones as a uniquely gifted artist and vanguard of the form. Throughout the album, Jones shows us he’s not afraid to get his hands dirty, enduring with a concept until it takes the proper form. On lead single “Lord Have Mercy”, Jones describes the method and reward of this rare live-band recording—to simply play it, back to back without stopping, until the energy caught up to his lyrics and mood references. With Ben Lumsdaine on drums, Drake Ritter on guitar, Matt Romy on keyboard