“War on Drugs” keyboardist and guitarist Eliza Hardy Jones hails from West Philadelphia, but she’s got Delaware County familiarity.
The Eliza Hardy Jones song “Long Winter Shadows” on her new album “Pickpocket” was inspired by the John Heinz Wildlife Preserve in Tinicum, writes Ben Silver for Philadelphia Magazine.
Released in April, “Pickpocket” was her second solo album after “Become Become,” was released in 2016.
The album explores themes of perseverance amid grief, loss and depression after years of trying to have a baby that ended with a miscarriage.
Jones lives a few minutes from the Wildlife Refuge and has visited there as a runner four or five times a week.
It was a peaceful, magical place for her and her husband through the ordeal.
The song came to her after one visit when she saw an Eagle fly and try to pull a fish out of a blue heron’s mouth.
“Long Winter Shadow” is about that idea of “how do I survive the winter?”
“I feel like that song specifically is describing the shadow of the blue heron’s legs or the sparrows flying out from underneath the boardwalk and the branches blowing in the wind.”
Read more about this Eliza Hardy Jones song and find out more about her career in Main Line Today.
