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American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and songwriter (1917-1989)

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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

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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
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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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