Buddy Jones

Buddy Jones is one of the most interesting, but sadly overlooked, figures of early honky tonk. A police officer from Shreveport, LA, Jones recorded several singles for Decca Records during the late '30s and early '40s before abandoning his musical career. Jones began singing with <a href="spotify:artist:0ow3Ac8tlahUoDVXbRuaRy">Jimmie Davis</a>, a fellow Louisiana politician, in 1935, recording a number of duets for Decca over the course of the next year and a half. Jones went solo in 1937, recording with his brother <a href="spotify:artist:2cdg2L9AI6LbtPiDXmXTkv">Buster</a> on steel guitar. After releasing a series of singles, which were nearly all risqué honky tonk, <a href="spotify:artist:3mVSCOj1XBlL6s776Kx0Ed">Bob Dunn</a>, a former steel guitarist for <a href="spotify:artist:5ugp1c9qjz50k4A8GWnXyZ">Cliff Bruner</a>, replaced <a href="spotify:artist:2cdg2L9AI6LbtPiDXmXTkv">Buster</a> in <a href="spotify:artist:2gCsNOpiBaMNh20jQ5prf0">Buddy</a>'s band.

Jones continued to record for Decca until 1945, when he essentially retired from the music business. Buddy Jones died in 1950. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi