Artist: Wizz Jones: mp3 download Genre(s): Folk Wizz Jones's discography: Right Now Year: 1998 Tracks: 10 The English folk music scene with its many leaves and branches is trackable to a few knobbed yet enduring taproots. Along with the Watersons and Davy Graham, guitarist Wizz Jones is i of them. While well-nigh unknown in America in this sorry age, Jones was preponderating in influencing nearly every acoustic guitar player and common people scenester wHO came after him in the U.K. Jones began to play guitar seriously in the mid to late '50s later organism elysian by the lit of the Beat Generation, and American vapours and folk recordings such as those of Son House, Blind Blake, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Robert Johnson, Lonnie Johnson, Tampa Red, Big Bill Broonzy, and others. Jones bore a unknown figure in British coffeehouses with his uncharacteristically longsighted hair's-breadth and hobo-ish behaviour, including a guitar that was literally held together with leather straps. He knew his stuff, however, and his playing was frozen deep in the Mississippi Delta and in early Chicago vapours styles and he naturalized a reputation early among younger players wHO pie-eyed up both his image and the licks he laid-off off from a rapid right-handed picking style that was clearly his have. Jones was interviewed early on by the BBC world Health Organization was trying to figure out what the ruction was on the new British folk music medicine scenery, and came off as a whiskery shaggy smart ass. To the BBC's credit, they left his segment in and Jones became a folk music hero to the irregular generation of Brit folk music musicians, many of whom were just about to make their possess mark. Among those world Health Organization saw the broadcast and claim to have been directly influenced by it ar John Martyn, Ralph McTell, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, and Richard Thompson. Embrace the beat life, he and Clive Palmer took to busking in the streets of France for a spell -- fifty-fifty encountering a young British bluesman in Paris named Rod Stewart. Back in England, Jones met banjo king Pete Stanley in 1962 and formed a bluegrass duet that released a instantly legendary -- and highly collectable -- Columbia recording called Music for Moonshiners in early 1963. The duet issued ane more recording for the judge called 10 Tons of Bluegrass ahead disbanding in 1966. Beginning in 1968, Jones began recording a series of albums upon which his dark, however legendary, modern report was founded. Hanging with a cluster of locals and a loose-knit band he formed called Lazy Farmer, Jones issued nine albums 'tween 1969 and 1977 for labels United Artists, Village Thing, and Plant Life, in accession to Columbia as well as a belittled server of German independent records. These discs include Wizz Jones, The Legendary Me, Correct Now (w/ John Renbourn), Winter Songs, When I Leave Berlin (with Lazy Farmer and Bert Jansch), Lazy Farmer (as Lazy Farmer), Happiness Was Free, Magical Flight, Folk and Western Songs, and Solo Flight. From the end of the '70s and through most of the '80s, Jones played the festival and little night club circumference in the British Isles and in Europe and nearly ceased to record on his possess, though he was a regular performer on other artists' recordings, including those by Ralph McTell, Derroll Adams, and Chas MacDevitt. Only deuce records appeared during the '80s, Roll on River with Werner Lammerhirt and The Grapes of Life, in 1981 and 1987 severally. The '90s saw the beginning of Jones' revitalisation as a solo performer, teacher, and recording artist. First in that respect was the Live in Dublin transcription for LPR Publications, and then the egress of The Village Thing tapes which were compiled of '70s material, showed at that place was a renewed interest in Jones' work. Perhaps due to the fantabulous BBC series, Acoustic Routes, presenting the U.K.'s folk inheritance, Jones' talents were in demand on the festival racing circuit, at home, and throughout Europe for lots of the '90s. Other recordings of note from the '90s include Late Nights & Long Days, and a single of "Well-situated Rider." 1995 saw the emergence of Jones' first-class honours degree degree U.S.-released transcription, Fulgurant Stanger, a new recorded compilation of his in the start music on the Scenes Of label. In 1998, Jones was paid tribute to by existence included in the Masters of British Guitar series. Jones played no less than 15 songs for his section. Jones' Through the Fingers record album on Far Flung is an issuing of his highly regarded and a good deal sought Milton Keynes carrying into action from 1998. He likewise released Lucky the Man in 2001, some other Scenes Of disc released simultaneously on both CD and limited edition. Guests include Renbourn and Jaqui McShee from Pentangle, old busking mate Clive Palmer, Gerry Conway, Simeon Jones, Martin Weatley, and others. Jones' calling in the early region of the new century included touring and transcription balanced with reissues of his entire catalogue by various labels in the U.K. and U.S., all of them with bonus tracks, creating a new wealth of material for collectors. The digest Legendary Me arrived in 2006. |