Marti Jones

Pop singer Marti Jones first emerged as the frontwoman of the group Color Me Gone before issuing her solo debut Unsophisticated Time -- produced by future husband <a href="spotify:artist:3LdLKmvFl65YydnIc2ZA9c">Don Dixon</a> -- in 1985. Though the recipient of widespread critical acclaim, Jones found little commercial success with LPs like 1986's Match Game (recorded with guests <a href="spotify:artist:27tICP1Y2IuLqCpORpfNxF">Mitch Easter</a>, T-Bone Burnett, and <a href="spotify:artist:391oLRVmoTkumiN79HkTWu">Darlene Love</a>) and 1988's Used Guitars (featuring contributions from <a href="spotify:artist:73YLmyaazO66GncUVHP0KV">Marshall Crenshaw</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:5c9uFWpZY2MTlk7Rft0tgp">Janis Ian</a>), and she was dropped by her label, A&M. After signing to <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22RCA%22">RCA</a> for 1990's Any Kind of Lie, Jones disappeared from sight before signing to <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Sugar+Hill%22">Sugar Hill</a> and returning in 1996 with a pair of new releases, Live at Spirit Square and My Long-Haired Life. In 2002 her album My Tidy Doily Dream (another release produced by husband <a href="spotify:artist:3LdLKmvFl65YydnIc2ZA9c">Don Dixon</a>) appeared on the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Dixon+Archival+Remnants%22">Dixon Archival Remnants</a> label, but Jones subsequently focused much of her creative energy on painting, under the name Marti Jones Dixon. Lucky Stars: New Lullabies for Old Souls, an album credited to the husband-and-wife duo of Marti Jones and <a href="spotify:artist:3LdLKmvFl65YydnIc2ZA9c">Don Dixon</a>, was made available for digital download in March 2008. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi