Album Notes

Young, gifted, and pretty, Kelly Jones is everything a proper pop-princess should be, and SheBANG! will win her the crown.

Her third full-length album, SheBANG! is such a fresh direction for Kelly that it feels like a debut. The rightly acclaimed vocalist has moved on from her rootsy Americana origins to embrace a classic, pure-pop sound. Inflected with the sounds of ‘60s girl-groups, New Wave, and shimmery ‘80s chart-toppers, the songs still manage to feel as fresh as a just-picked daisy. With songwriting, vocals and production that are infectious, young and exciting – SheBANG! is all the best things pop should be.

In a perfect world, “Girl with the Silver Lining” and “Rooftop” would be a double-A side, top-selling 7” single, and we’d all be playing it over and over on our dansettes and sock-hopping the summer away in vintage suits and cute dresses.

Former Candy Butchers main guy Mike Viola is Kelly’s chief partner-in-crime on SheBANG! An acclaimed singer-songwriter in his own right, Viola contributed bass, keys, guitars, and back-up vocals as well as writing or co-writing eight of the album’s ten songs.

Obvious single “Crazy Talk” was penned by Kelly with Adam Schlesinger. A member of the critically acclaimed Ivy, Adam is best known for his writing and playing in Fountains of Wayne, and was the songwriter for Broadway musical Crybaby and the Hugh ‘n’ Drew movie Music and Lyrics. Among his other successes is the international hit single “That Thing You Do” from the movie of the same title, which, not coincidentally, featured the lead vocals of one Mike Viola.

SheBANG! is a seductively optimistic rooftop-party of a record that was born for radio play, club nights, and picnics in the park.