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Alt-Country.NL, January 2012
"A year ago, Jezebel Jones lost her home and all her personal belongings in a massive gas explosion in St. Paul, Minnesota; fortunately she lived. The hardest part was losing her creative work, photographs and other personal belongings. In order to process the tragedy, she went to work; Queen Of The Devil's Rodeo (self-released) is the result.
Jezebel Jones & Her Wicked Ways tell some dark tales, but at times the songs are quite humorous. “Music Man” tells about the love of a guitarist, but Jones wonders why he isn’t a better musician since his rhythm is fine when he doesn’t have an instrument in his hands.
Part cabaret cowpunk and part cheeky country, the album also has a song about another guitarist who is arrested after a concert, wearing nothing more than a guitar. The theremin colors “A Balancing Act”, though you may initially think it’s a musical saw."
- John Gjaltema, Alt-Country.NL (translated from Dutch)
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Mpls. St. Paul Magazine, January 2012
"Jezebel Jones grew up in northern Minnesota in a strict Pentecostal home with no TV, so she definitely had something to rebel against. And rebel she has. After a few years honing her craft on the Twin Cities coffeehouse circuit, she's channeled her contrarian spirit into a first album, Queen of the Devil's Rodeo. Sung in a folksy, countrified style that's been dubbed "neo-twang", the album (recorded with her band Jezebel Jones & Her Wicked Ways) contains 12 wry, darkly ironic story songs about everything from God's apparent reluctance to help pay her bills, to Jones's disappointment at not being raptured away from all her troubles on Earth. Fortunately, she's stuck here with the rest of us heathens, who are doomed to sing and laugh and sin for as long as it takes to get it right."
-Tad Simons, Entertainment Editor, Mpls. St. Paul Magazine
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Music News Nashville, November 2011
"Growing up in Minnesota, Jezebel Jones was influenced by her surroundings which included a lot of straight-laced Pentecostal preaching and people watching. And, you know what they say about a good girl gone bad! Maybe that’s the reason why her disc is so fun to listen to. There are quite a few stories here about people who have, well, fallen from grace. Her art as a storyteller comes across on the very first song, “Music Man,” which has kind of a stage show feel to it that really lends itself well to Jones’s style.
That style is all over the place. She’s humorous (I think!) on “Post-Rapture Blues,” soft-spoken on “Baptism At Sweet William’s Lake,” and downright sensual on “Sirens Of The Mississippi,” which might very well be the best cut on here.
The whole album is hard to classify, which might be why she has become a favorite at Americana radio. It’s not for people who like their music straight and arrow, but if you like to cross over the lines every now and then, I have a feeling that Jones could take you on a ride that you won’t soon forget!"
-Chuck Dauphin, MusicNewsNashville.com
