Load-In to Load-Out: Eliza Hardy Jones celebrates her breakout year at Boot & Saddle
It’s a dark night in a city that knows how to keep it’s secrets. But on one of the first truly bitter days of December, as the wind howls down South Broad, there’s true warmth to be found inside Boot & Saddle. Hometown hero Eliza Hardy Jones is playing the Boot in a celebration of sorts. As the year ends, she’s commemorating the first year of making and playing music under her own name, a project entirely her own. After years as a crucial member of many other cherished Philly projects — you’re thinking of Buried Beds, Strand of Oaks, and Grace Potter’s band — this is her year.
As Jones spent the evening seeing her record Because Become into life on stage, we were there to capture it all — from Load-In to Load Out.
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Eliza Hardy Jones | photo by Jeremy Zimmerman | jeremy-zim.com