Floyd Jones
Sign in to saveAmerican Chicago blues singer, guitarist and songwriter (1917-1989)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Atomic Artist, and Other Groovy Tales
- Blueberry
- OpenOffice. Org 2. X
- StarOffice 6.0 office suite companion
- StarOffice 5.2 companion
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1931-09-12
- Active to
- 2013-04-26
2008 universal fire victimamericanclassic countrycountrygrand tourhonky tonk
Discography
- Grand Ole Opry’s New Star George Jones Country Song Hits1956
- Sings 14 Top Country Favorites1957
- Country Church Time1959
- George Jones Sings White Lightning and Other Favorites1959
- George Jones Salutes Hank Williams1960
- The Crown Prince of Country Music1960
- Duets Country Style1962
- Sings Bob Wills1962
- Sings Country and Western Hits1962
- Sings the Hits of His Country Cousins1962
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 10,246
- Total plays
- 31,815
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Floyd Jones (July 21, 1917 – December 19, 1989) was an American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter, who is significant as one of the first of the new generation of electric blues artists to record in Chicago after World War II. A number of Jones' recordings are regarded as classics of the Chicago blues idiom, and his song "On The Road Again" was a top ten hit for Canned Heat in 1968. Notably for a blues artist of his era, several of his songs have economic or social themes <a href="https://w
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Jones
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Marianna
- Place of death
- Chicago
- Occupation
- street artist
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- guitar
- Record label
- Chess Records
Show 4 more facts
- date of death
- 1989-12-19
- date of birth
- 1917-07-21
- cause of death
- heart failure
- manner of death
- natural causes
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