With JD Crowe at Banjothong...
Wide eyed and bushy tailed. You can see my eyes, just take my word for the other part...
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My The Gerald Jones show at Sons of Hermann Hall where the future Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Bluegrass Band first played together.
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Bluegrass Band at the Bass Hall in Fort Worth.
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Picking with Kenny Thacker and Clay Hess.
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Sgt. Pepper's emoting in front of a blue screen. I forgot my hat.
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Nate Lee and me picking at Camp Bluegrass. Nate wears a hat a lot now.
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Hanging at IBMA. The mandolin players on on the left. She's holding Carmen Miranda's hat. I can hear the blood stirring Latin rhythms of Tico Tico now!
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Alan Tompkins, Reggie Rueffer and me getting down on the ground. I found my hat!
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Me and Mike Bub. Great bassist but I remember when he played banjo.
Alan Munde, Missy Raines, Wayne Shrubsall, Tony Trischka, Bill Evans, me, and Steve Smith. Wayne is the one in the hats…
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My Dad in CCC camp during the Great Depression. He’s the one with the guitar… and the hat…
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Rex, me and Ryan Cavanaugh at IBMA in Raleigh NC. Hot single string banjo jamming here iI come.
My Dad playing at KGAF radio circa 1959. I still have the 1951 J-45 Gibson guitar.
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Showing Adam Steffey some hot mandolin chords. If you believe that then you're dumber than you look...
14 years old with my first car and spiffy “mod” suit… That car changed my love life. Girls that didn't know I existed started talking to me.
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In the studio with Roanoke around 1974. You can tell by the color of the paint on the walls...
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Red Gordon Variety Show with my father Elbert Jones, the middle guitar player. That’s a 1954 white Telecaster he sold to buy a 1957 Strat.…Dang…
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Mary Duren and I playing with the Dallas Lyric Opera. Looks like a Far Side cartoon…
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1972 – Can you say John Lennon? My Yoko lookalike girlfriend was taking the photo.
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Picking with Bob Davis of the Stone Mountain Boys in 1972 in a hanger. I’m the one in the hat…
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1985. Ain’t I cute… What happened???
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Bill Mack and me in Gnashville.
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I shouldn’t have jammed all night long. Glenrose TX, 1974. I’m the one in the hat…
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Fiddling with Dale Morris Sr. That’s a great Maggani copy fiddle I let get away… Dang… I lost the hat too...
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Me and Earl! Jamming at John Hartford’s. Be still, my beating heart.
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I’m the creamy filling… I'm still waiting for my hair to fall back in.
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My Grandfather’s Clock impersonation. My grandfather always wore a hat.
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1983, posing for the cover of my chicken pickin’ electric guitar instruction book.
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More posing.
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Even more posing. I must be a poseur.
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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…
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My son Ian and me resting our eyes. He's about six feet tall now.
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Jim "Texas Shorty" Chancellor, George Anderson and me playing at the Heard-Craig Hall in McKinney Texas.
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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…
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He's so sad.
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Hey you! In the hat! You looking at me??? (Gary Price banjo)
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Promoting Acoustic Music Camp at Blooming Bluegrass.
Bach Norwood (Bach, great name for a musician), Loretta Lynn and me. Bach found the hat out back at the gig. Really!
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Playing with Michael Murphy in 1982. The hat belongs to the bass player behind me.
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Mary Duren and I playing with the Dallas Lyric Opera. Maestro your room in here.
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Moonstruck String Band 1979 Tommy Houston, Fred Gumar, Paul Glasse and me. I’m the one in the hat…
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Ever wonder what happens if you photocopy your face? Joe Carr wanted to title it “New process reveals amazing image in Shroud of Turin!”
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Uncle Calvin’s Coffee House with Texas Shorty. Someone drew it and gave it to me at the gig.
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On the cover of the Rolling Stone. I mean the Banjo Newsletter. Even better!
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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…
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Backstage at the Opry with Sonny Osborne. Sonny is the one with the hat… A hatless Bobby Hicks took the photo. He did have a beer in one hand though.
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In the studio about 1981. I'm not sure whose mandolin I'm holding. I really didn't know much on the mandolin back then.
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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 like Weather Report meets Flatt and Scruggs.
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John Travolta, look out! It's not Saturday night but I think I had a fever.
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Scott Vestal, me and Bill Keith at Camp Bluegrass. We’re the ones in the hats…
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Winfield Contest. No hat on me…
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Winfield again but I’ve got a hat this time…
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Gruene Hall with Anytown. Bach still has the hat he found at the Loretta Lynn gig in Austin.
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Robert Bowlin and Hank Tompson (in hat). His guitar has the John Holmes model tremolo bar...
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Jens Kruger and I practicing some unnatural banjo. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
My daughter Hannah at Camp Bluegrass circa 1990.
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Hannah in the Aggie Band. She played percussion. Fish don’t get to wear hats… or boots… 2006.
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Texas Shorty and a hatless John Hartford.
Picking at John Hartford’s house with Texas Shorty.
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Ian with a goat... Not baaaahhhd. I know it's a bad pun but I'm not going to lose any sheep over it.
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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…
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Who's this guy??? Great mid 30's Style 11 banjo I let get away.
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Jim Mills and me chillin’ at IBMA 2008. I could use a hat…
My wife Leigh with Segovia at his home in Madrid, 1982. Segovia is holding his hat…
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Leigh with 1980's hair in tent at festival.
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With Colby Logan & Anytown at the Texas Theater in Waxahatchie…
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With Earl Scruggs at his house (Thanks Jack Hatfield!) where I got Earl to sign my first edition, hard cover Sgruggs instruction book with his name misspelled on the cover… (See closeup on right.) I was going to ask him to misspell his name the same way but chickened out! Earl was a very gracious man but that probably would have been over the top.
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If you look closely you’ll notice that “Scruggs” is spelled “Sgruggs.” It’s that way on the dust jacket and flyleaf too. Alan Munde owns a soft cover one misspelled the same way.
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Noam Pikelny and me at the Acoustic Music Camp / Bluegrass Heritage Foundation After Hours Showcase at IBMA.
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My father, Elbert Jones (seated with electric guitar) That’s a 1957 Strat I let him sell…Dang…
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My father, Elbert Jones (seated with electric guitar) That’s a 1957 Strat I let him sell…Dang…
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1977 with Roanoke – Dan Huckabee, Joe Carr, me and Jim Groetjon.
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1977 with Roanoke – I was trying out my "It is finished" look.
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Benny Martin and Texas Shorty jamming at John Hartford's house.
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Look at dem legs! And Alan Mundes's hat.
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Spatz (the musical wonderdog) funk band. The girl we are holding up is Terry Thomasson, great singer and the granddaughter of fiddling great Benny Thomasson. I’m the one in the hat.
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Opening for Loretta Lynn at Stubbs in Austin.
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Guitar Society Outreach. Ever notice how classical guitar players won't learn your tunes? You have to learn theirs..
In the studio with Vince Gill, Thom Bresh, and Mr. and Mrs. Hank Tompson.
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Texas Theater in Waxahatche doing the mando limbo!
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At the Saloon in Dallas 1983. Texas Shorty, Bill Millet, Mike Anderson, Joe Carr and me with sunglasses and hat-like hair… Painting by Gerald Burns.
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