Blue Ridge Public Radio - “After Losing Nearly Everything Defining Her Life, Jane Kramer Found Her Own Musical Voice”
WLOS - “Carolina Moment: Asheville Singer’s Catchy Song is in Waffle House Jukeboxes Nationwide”
Blue Ridge Outdoors - “Trail Mix: An Interview With Jane Kramer”
Nashville Music Guide - “Jane Kramer Giving it All She’s Got With Her Release Valley of the Bones”
The Daily Country - “Premiere: Jane Kramer Waffle House Song”
Making a Scene - “Album Review: Jane Kramer, Valley of the Bones”
The Bluegrass Situation - “Listen: Jane Kramer Carnival of Hopes”
Mountain Xpress - “Jane Kramer Launches Her New Album at Ambrose West”
Asheville Citizen Times - “Asheville’s Jane Kramer Comes Full Circle with May 5 Benefit Concert”
Lauded by UK music reviewer Three Chords and the Truth as sounding like she was “…born to gypsy poets and raised by Emmylou Harris,” Asheville, North Carolina songstress Jane Kramer has garnered international recognition for the sultry, heartrending originality of her vocals and for the heavy-hitting lyrical eloquence of her songwriting.
With deep roots in the musical traditions, culture and lore of her beloved Appalachia, Kramer’s songs are introspective, gracefully gritty and fiercely memorable. They elegantly sweep listeners down the gravel roads and southern coastal highways, midnight truck stops and lonely motel rooms of “hard learning” and lead home to the wooded Blue Ridge Mountains with moving acceptance of our flawed human experience. Kramer’s live performances are equally as poignant and engaging; rich with accessible, warm, often hilarious storytelling and gracefully lifting the veil between audience and performer.
In April 2018, Kramer returned to the studio to record her third full-length album.
Valley of the Bones' 10 strong tracks tackle a breadth of subject matter, ranging from marriage to miscarriage. Spirituality and self-acceptance are expressed with poetic grace, vulnerability and unapologetically honest grit. Kramer's endearing, self-effacing humor is also on full display. This warm, easy storytelling is paired with rich, nuanced arrangements that aren't afraid to be simple when called for, and are punctuated with the unmistakably bittersweet southern wail of Billy Cardine's dobro.
All of the songs show Kramer arriving confidently and comfortably at home inside as both a woman and a masterful songwriter after over twenty years of honing her craft.
Valley of the Bones was released internationally on March 1st of 2019 to critical acclaim and has has received significant radio airplay across the country from Folk and Americana djs alike. The album spent 3 months in the top 50 on the monthly Folk DJ chart, peaking at #15 folk album and #18 top artist and has also been a mainstay on the Roots Music Report's Contemporary Folk and North Carolina Roots album charts for over 4 months.
