Also in 2005, Jones was invited to take part in her boyfriend and collaborator Lee Cantelon's music version of his book "The Words", a book of the words of Christ, set into simple chapters and themes. Cantelon's idea was to have various artists recite the text over primal rock music, but Jones elected to try something that had never been done, to improvise her own impression of the texts, melody and lyric, in stream of consciousness sessions, rather than read Jesus' words. The sessions were recorded at an artist's loft on Exposition Boulevard in Culver City. When Cantelon could no longer finish the project, Jones picked it up as her own record and hired Rob Schnaf to finish the production at Sunset Sound in 2007, and the result was "The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard", released on the independent New West Records in February 2007. It included "Circle in the Sand", recorded for the soundtrack to the film "Friends With Money" (2006), for which Jones also cut "Hillbilly Song". "The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard" debuted at No. 158 on the Billboard 200 and No. 12 on the Top Independent Albums tally. Writer Ann Powers included this on her list of Grammy-worthy CDs for 2007.