
14 years old with my
first car and spiffy "mod" suit... |

1972 - Can you say John Lennon? |

1977 with Roanoke - Dan Huckabee, Joe Carr, Jim Grotjon, and me with my Gary Price banjo. |

1983 posing for the cover of my
chicken pickin' electric guitar instruction book. |

Me and Joe Carr jamming 1989
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Gig with Texas Shorty (Jim Chancellor -
you can just see his fiddle), Leigh Taylor and me. I don't know who the man with the red hat is... |

Playing with Michael Murphy in 1982
The hat belongs to the bass player behind me. |

Mary Duren and me playing with the
Dallas Lyric Opera. Looks like a Far Side cartoon... |

Moonstruck String Band 1979 Tommy Houston, Fred Gumar, Paul Glasse
and me. I'm the one in the hat... |

Alan Munde, Missy Raines, Wayne Shrubsall,
Tony Trischka, Bill Evans, me, and Steve Smith.
Wayne is the one in the hat... |

My father, Elbert Jones (seated with electric guitar)
That's a 1957 Strat I let him sell...Dang... |

My Dad in CCC camp during the depression.
He's the one with the guitar... and the hat... |

My Dad playing at KGAF radio circa 1959.
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I shouldn't have jammed all night long..
Glenrose TX 1974. I'm the one in the hat... |

Showing how to play a chord that
has more notes than you have fingers.
Or I'm playing the snot out of it! That's the
great Stealth banjo I let get away...Dang... |

Me and Earl! At John Hartford's house. |

Fiddling with Dale Morris Sr.
That's a great Maggani copy
fiddle I let get away... Dang... I'm the one in the hat... |

Ever wonder what happens if you photocopy
your face? Joe Carr wanted to title it "New
process reveals amazing image in Shroud of Turin!" |

Picking with Bob Davis of the Stone Mountain Boys
in 1972 in a hanger. I'm the one in the hat... |

My Grandfther's Clock impersonation.
My grandfather always wore a hat... |

Bach Norwood (Bach, great name for a musician)
Loretta Lynn and me. Bach found the hat at a gig. |

With Texas Shorty at the Athens Texas
fiddle contest around 1993. That's a
1937 000-18 I let get away... Dang...
I think that's Henry Kissinger in the hat... |

Uncle Calvin's Coffee House with Texas Shorty. |

With Colby Logan & Anytown at the
Texas Theater in Waxahatchie... |

In the studio in 1981 on a project of mine
with Mark O'Connor, Jerry Douglas,
Texas Shorty, Bill Millet, Sam Bush and others.
Funk/Fusion/Jazz. Sort of Weather Report meets
Flatt and Scruggs. |

John Travolta look out! |

Scott Vestal, me and Bill Keith at Camp Bluegrass.
We're the ones in the hats... |

Winfield Contest. No hat on me... |

Texas Shorty and a hatless John Hartford. |

Robert Bowlin and Hank Tompson (in hat). |

Winfield again but I've got a hat this time... |

My son, Ian Nathaniel Django Jones
with the dobro banjo I got from Alan Munde.
This is his orchestra photo. He was supposed
to be holding his violin... |

My daughter Hannah at Camp Bluegrass circa 1990. |

Hannah in the Aggie Band. She plays percussion. Fish don't get to wear hats... or boots... 2006. |

My wife Leigh with Segovia at his home
in Madrid, 1982. Segovia is holding his hat... |

In the studio with Vince Gill, Thom Bresh,
and Mr. and Mrs. Hank Tompson. |

Picking at John Hartford's house with Texas Shorty. |

My Dad playing at a rodeo. He traded off
that white 1954 Telecaster... Dang... |

1977 with Roanoke - Dan Huckabee, Joe Carr, me and Jim Groetjon. |

Me and Sonny Osborne backstage at the Opry.
Sonny is the one with the hat... |

Dallas Lyric Opera gig.
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Alan Munde, Missy Raines, Wayne Shrubsall (in hat),
Tony Trischka, Bill Evans, and me. |

1985. Ain't I cute... |

At the Saloon in Dallas 1983. Texas Shorty,
Bill Millet, Mike Anderson, Joe Carr and
me with sunglasses and hat-like hair... |