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His sound characteristically dark and gloomy, guitarist Floyd Jones contributed a handful of genuine classics to the Chicago blues idiom during the late '40s and early '50s, notably the foreboding "Dark Road" and "Hard Times."
Born in Arkansas, Jones grew up in the blues-fertile Mississippi Delta (where he picked up the guitar in his teens). He came to Chicago in the mid-'40s, working for tips on Maxwell Street with his cousin <a href="spotify:artist:24FWdrSufRayxwGPvzSFaz">Moody Jones</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1zqbbuhdv0wyMcaLmauCvQ">Baby Face Leroy Foster</a> and playing local clubs on a regular basis. Floyd was right there when the postwar "Chicago blues" movement first took flight, recording with harpist <a href="spotify:artist:2mGsLcgVJSfpUTgrMuPxt3">Snooky Pryor</a> for Marvel in 1947; pianist <a href="spotify:artist:5IrMTnoQ7OgoLpFfsisXX2">Sunnyland Slim</a> for Tempo Tone the next year (where he cut "Hard Times"), JOB and Chess in 1952-53, and Vee-Jay in 1955 (where he weighed in with a typically downcast "Ain't Times Hard").
Jones remained active on the Chicago scene until shortly before his 1989 death, although electric bass had long since replaced the guitar as his main axe. He participated in Earwig Records' Old Friends sessions in 1979, sharing a studio with longtime cohorts <a href="spotify:artist:5IrMTnoQ7OgoLpFfsisXX2">Sunnyland Slim</a>, Honeyboy Edwards, <a href="spotify:artist:7ApWhtmpJkPyd5WjwDdDfX">Big Walter Horton</a>, and Kansas City Red. ~ Bill Dahl, Rovi
Born in Arkansas, Jones grew up in the blues-fertile Mississippi Delta (where he picked up the guitar in his teens). He came to Chicago in the mid-'40s, working for tips on Maxwell Street with his cousin <a href="spotify:artist:24FWdrSufRayxwGPvzSFaz">Moody Jones</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1zqbbuhdv0wyMcaLmauCvQ">Baby Face Leroy Foster</a> and playing local clubs on a regular basis. Floyd was right there when the postwar "Chicago blues" movement first took flight, recording with harpist <a href="spotify:artist:2mGsLcgVJSfpUTgrMuPxt3">Snooky Pryor</a> for Marvel in 1947; pianist <a href="spotify:artist:5IrMTnoQ7OgoLpFfsisXX2">Sunnyland Slim</a> for Tempo Tone the next year (where he cut "Hard Times"), JOB and Chess in 1952-53, and Vee-Jay in 1955 (where he weighed in with a typically downcast "Ain't Times Hard").
Jones remained active on the Chicago scene until shortly before his 1989 death, although electric bass had long since replaced the guitar as his main axe. He participated in Earwig Records' Old Friends sessions in 1979, sharing a studio with longtime cohorts <a href="spotify:artist:5IrMTnoQ7OgoLpFfsisXX2">Sunnyland Slim</a>, Honeyboy Edwards, <a href="spotify:artist:7ApWhtmpJkPyd5WjwDdDfX">Big Walter Horton</a>, and Kansas City Red. ~ Bill Dahl, Rovi
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