| Soul Miners Daugher
Band Members
Soul Miners Daughter is a fantastic, but not widely known band out of
Atlanta, Georgia. The band was created around 1996, and started off as
the duo of Jennifer Nettles and Cory Jones, who met through a high school
performing arts troupe. After they had procured a backup band they
released The Sacred and the Profane and in 1998, Hallelujah, both of which
sold well. Eventually the two records resulted in over 20,000 sales.
The sound of the band is a mixture of soul, blues, country, and folk,
and Nettles and Jones manage to create fantastic harmonies. The feel of the
albums is nicely varied. Punchy, soulful, a cappella, are all styles of
music evident on both albums and in fact, they are both self released. The
feel is very down to earth, and while you can tell the band is not
big, the feel of the music doesn't suffer from it, and in fact
the lack of expense in the music helps it. Anyone who likes music
from the likes of Sarah McLachlan or Blue Rodeo will definitely
appreciate this band.
Sadly, Soul Miners Daughter was disbanded at the height of their
popularity due to reported creative differences between Jones
and Nettles. However, Jennifer Nettles has formed the
Jennifer Nettles Band which includes every member of the original band except
Jones.
Discography
Sources
http://www.athensmusic.net/athensmusic/lists/bands/soulminers.php
There's not a lot on the net about Soul Miner's Daughter, the best resource I found was at http://www.hom.net/~dvwright/soulminer/ | 
