Atlanta-based Folk singer.songwriter Diane Coll is releasing her second album, Old Ghosts, on January 16, 2024. Described as a “darker, and more introspective collection” than her previous works, the album’s first single, “This Heart,” is out now.

Coll says:

This song carries deep meaning for me and is one that I suspect will continue to be a challenge at various times in my life. I made a choice and continue to stake my claim for keeping my heart open. At times, this is sometimes easier said than done, but I like a good challenge. I do hope this song will inspire others to self-reflect and change course if need be.

Coll was immersed in the Athens and Atlanta music scenes in the 90s, releasing an album with a trio called Rosary. Although life circumstances sidelined her musical endeavors for a number of years, she returned to songwriting in 2017, and her first solo collection, Happy Fish and Other Delights, arrived in October 2022. 

As a mental health therapist, Coll considers music her therapy and, as a lifelong music lover, honors “the sacred space between performer and listener.”  Old Ghosts focuses on a beginning, after Coll began a new phase of her life. 

She adds:

When relationships end, it is time to self-reflect and take inventory of what’s been waiting in the wings. To live as authentically as we can, we often must acknowledge and look our own old ghosts in the mirror and heal thyself first and foremost. Old Ghosts is my own journey through some old haunts. In the end, there was great healing, away from the external world and back to the internal world.