Paul "Wine" Jones
Paul "Wine" Jones | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 1, 1946 |
| Died | October 9, 2005 (aged 59) Jackson, Mississippi, United States |
| Genres | Electric blues, delta blues, contemporary blues |
| Occupations | Singer, guitarist |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1990s–2005 |
| Label | Fat Possum |
Paul "Wine" Jones (July 1, 1946 – October 9, 2005) was an American contemporary blues guitarist and singer.[1]
Music writer Paul Du Noyer noted that Jones, R. L. Burnside, Big Jack Johnson, Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes and James "Super Chikan" Johnson were "present-day exponents of an edgier, electrified version of the raw, uncut Delta blues sound".[2]
Biography
Jones was born in Flora, Mississippi, and learned to play guitar by the age of four.[1] In his teens he played at house parties, and later worked with James "Son" Thomas and harmonica player Little Willy Foster.[3] Jones played music mainly as a pastime. He worked with local musicians while working on farms up to 1971, when he became a welder in Belzoni, Mississippi.[1]
In 1995 and 1996, Jones performed outside of Mississippi, when he was a member of Fat Possum's "Mississippi Juke Joint Caravan".[1][3] His 1995 debut album, Mule, was produced by the music critic Robert Palmer.[1] On the album he was accompanied by drummer Sam Carr, and guitarist Big Jack Johnson.[1] Fat Possum (an independent record label in Oxford, Mississippi), as well as managing the latter careers of Junior Kimbrough and R. L. Burnside, gave opportunity to a number of amateurs, mostly from rural Mississippi, who had seldom or never recorded before. Some, such as T-Model Ford and Asie Payton, moved on to higher billing, but others such as Jones, were left on the sidelines.[3]
Jones died of cancer, at the age of 59, in Jackson, Mississippi, in October 2005.[4]
Discography
- Mule (1995) - Fat Possum
- Pucker Up Buttercup (1999) - Fat Possum[5]
- Stop Arguing Over Me (2006) - Fat Possum[6]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Richard Skelly. "Paul "Wine" Jones | Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
- ↑ Du Noyer, Paul (2003). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music (1st ed.). Fulham, London: Flame Tree Publishing. p. 160. ISBN 1-904041-96-5.
- 1 2 3 "Obituary by Tony Russell". London: Guardian.co.uk. October 14, 2005. Retrieved December 22, 2009.
- ↑ "Paul "Wine" Jones R.I.P. - WFMU's Beware of the Blog". Blog.wfmu.org. 2005-10-10. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
- ↑ "Paul "Wine" Jones | Discography". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
- ↑ "Paul Wine Jones - Stop Arguing Over Me | Fat Possum Records". Fatpossum.com. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
- 1946 births
- 2005 deaths
- American blues guitarists
- American male guitarists
- American blues singers
- Blues musicians from Mississippi
- Deaths from cancer in Mississippi
- Electric blues musicians
- People from Flora, Mississippi
- 20th-century American guitarists
- Guitarists from Mississippi
- 20th-century American male singers