Curtis Jones, Lonesome Bedroom Blues, Delmar, 1962

As I prepared to write this one up, I was worried that its age and obscurity would limit how much I could find on-line. Turns out Bob Dylan recorded Highway 51, a tune Jones wrote, so there is plenty about that song on the internet. Yet this record was deleted from Wikipedia because it isn’t notable. Jones lived in Europe, where he was popular, for the last 10 years of his life.

I like piano blues. No one has ever called me sophisticated. Other artists in my collection include Professor Longhair, Blind John Davis, Little Richard, Andy Chatman, and One-Arm Slim.

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