Old-time fever continues to rage across the Americana spectrum, but, with the exceptions of Gillian Welch and Alison Krauss, few evoke the stoicism of country music's early years as convincingly as Jones. This latest was recorded live in a cabin at Tennessee's Museum of Appalachia, with two sidekicks and a crackling fire, but its sound (guitar, fiddle, banjo) is rich, the playing faultless and Jones's distinctive vocals imperious. The songs are Jones's own, though the likes of O Sinner and Satan sound as if they have come from a Carter family hymnal. Better are her cameos of exile (Ohio), hard labour (Sparrow) and heartache (Tennessee), the last making the tart observation that "a promise and a ring are dangerous things".
