Newest CD "Roses Guide To Time Travel" released March 2010

2010 Top Albums ~ Folk DJ Chart

2010 Top Songwriter ~ Third Coast Music

Billboard Honorable Mention (3 songs)

~ #15 Roots Music Report (Folk)
~ #20 Folk DJ Top Album Chart
~ #22 FAR (Freeform American Roots) Chart

On her newest album, Roses Guide to Time Travel, Nancy K. Dillon maps the road West; the dusty highways that conjure up images like Kerouac’s road trips, traveling dustbowl carnivals, and free-spirited 70s hipsters. Inspired by Oklahoma & Texas troubadours Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, and Kevin Welch, Dillon’s songs are short stories about the various characters that populate rural American life, as well as her travels through the American West and beyond. As Dillon says “I think listeners want to go on little journeys and the best songs are like short films.” Her songs are sprinkled with mandolin runs, funky banjo cuts, and the keening wail of a dobro, and incorporate elements of bluegrass, folk-rock, honky-tonk, and alt-country. Dillon’s music is inspired by the past, but she’s clear that her goal is to understand how her vision of Americana can exist in our digital world: “So many Americana acts try to re-create an archival version of the past or a past of the imagination. Nothing wrong with that…both are valid & important. But I’m interested in the future…where are we going ? How do we get there ? How does our past inform our journey towards the future ?” Though her music touches on our common American roots, Nancy K. Dillon’s not afraid to toss in a burning electric guitar lick next to a rollicking banjo line, just like she’s not afraid to call out odes to “hipsters in thrift store clothes” and to talk about how “life was hard for a trainman.” Nancy K. Dillon clearly has a talent for traveling back and forth through time with her own brand of “Avant-Garde Americana.”
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"An exquisite talent is allowed to prove herself in a relaxed environment"
4-1/2 Stars (of 5) ~ Maverick UK ~ Russell Hill ~ UK

"Melodies that are quick to please the ear and slow to leave the memory...
A consistent delight" ~ Rambles.NET ~ Jerome Clark ~ USA

"A well written and beautifully paced contemporary
bluegrass/folk/acoustic rock album." ~ Americana UK (7 Stars)

"Hints of honky tonk, Tex-Mex and cowboy music, intertwined with bluegrass, country, gospel and traditional folk, make this a true Americana album that could easily have come out of Austin."
~ John Conquest - Third Coast Music

"All the pretty América is in your fingers and in your voice."
~ Jean-Claude Bramley ~ Amnésia - La comedie musicale ~ France

"The fancy term for Dillon's kind of writing is mythopoeia."
"The astonishing 'Nothing in Texas' is the most beautiful '60s-soul slow dance ever to wear denim."
~ Tom Peterson - Victory Review)

"To Nancy ~ who knows more than a little about making musical magic!"
~ Clay Eals, Author ~ "Steve Goodman: Facing The Music"

“If I could sing like that, I wouldn’t bother much with instruments!”
Stacy Phillips (Grammy Award-Winning Dobroist)

"The confessional dial is turned down several notches - much is evoked and implied rather than simply on display for all to see."
~ Mark Phillips - Americana UK

"Oklahoma native Nancy K. Dillon's roots are clearly cemented in the Red Dirt State."
~ Melissa Wabnitz - Norman Transcript (OK)

"Surreal euphoria and small town claustrophobia..."
~ Holly Estrella del Dia - Roots Highway

"A really fine album of singer/songwriter fare with a bit of an old-timey feel in spots. I like this CD a lot. The songs are well-written, tuneful and intelligent."
~ Greg Grant - Online Folk Festival

"We were treated to moments of pure magic. I know I keep saying this is why I do house concerts, but this is why I do house concerts. Wow. "
~ Nolan Pepperdine ~ Olalla House Concerts