![]() ![]() ![]() I began to realize I was moving away from these fragile forms of masculinity. "The mantra me and Durand's generation was to always leave Hillaryville, to get out of Hillaryville," says Damon Jones, Durand's younger brother. Jones says the war on drugs and a nearby state highway, cutting through, turned the town into a much more desolate place. But Hillaryville changed from how she remembered it. Jones grew up attending church, singing in the choir and living in his dad's trailer, not far from his grandmother's house. In an early interlude, over melancholy piano, strings and sounds of a creek, Jones narrates Hillaryville's history and how his grandmother described what it was like when she first moved there: "the place you'd most want to live." ![]() ![]() "Rather, it would smell like zesty magnolias on a hot July day in Louisiana," he says.Īnd so began Jones' journey to memorialize his hometown of Hillaryville, Louisiana, a small community on the banks of the Mississippi River, in Wait Til I Get Over. When he approached his label, Dead Oceans, about releasing a solo album, he didn't explain what it might sound like. But after several years, three albums and international tours, frontman Durand Jones felt the need to step out on his own. Durand Jones & the Indications have been making vintage soul cool again since the mid-2010s. ![]()
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