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Paul "Wine" Jones was an American contemporary blues guitarist and singer. One commentator noted that Jones, R. L. Burnside, Big Jack Johnson, Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes and James "Super Chikan" Johnson ... Wikipedia
Born: July 1, 1946, Flora, MS
Died: October 9, 2005, Jackson, MS
Record label: Fat Possum Records
Albums: Pucker Up Buttercup, Mule, Stop Arguing Over Me
Genres: Electric blues, Delta blues, Blues
Obituary from "The Guardian" - by Tony Russell
Paul 'Wine' Jones
Blues musician loyal to Mississippi
Tony Russell
Thursday 13 October 2005 19.03 EDT Last modified on Monday 6 October 2014 05.17 EDT
The blues singer and guitarist Paul "Wine" Jones, who has died aged 59, gained a small measure of fame by recording for Fat Possum, an idiosyncratic independent label in Oxford, Mississippi. As well as stage managing the later-life careers of Junior Kimbrough and RL Burnside, Fat Possum has given opportunities to a number of strictly amateur musicians, mostly from rural Mississippi, who had seldom or never recorded before. Some, like T-Model Ford and Asie Payton, moved on to the larger stage of blues festivals, film soundtracks and being written about by Jay McInerney in the New Yorker. Others watched from the wings.
One of them was Jones, a man who rarely left his home in Belzoni, Mississippi, and played mostly for local audiences. He was born in Flora, Mississippi, a small town just off Highway 49, northwest of Jackson. Picking up the rudiments of the guitar from his father, by the time he was in his teens he was playing at house parties, and he later did some work with James "Son" Thomas and the harmonica-player Willie Foster.
Unlike his brother Casey Jones, who went to Chicago and became a well-known blues drummer, playing for several years with Albert Collins, Paul never took music seriously as a career option. Instead, he worked as a farmhand and a welder, and was proud to have bought his own house. By the time Fat Possum heard about him, in the mid-1990s, he was prepared to change his mind. "All the kids are grown up and gone," he said, "and I'm ready to go again."
His first album, Mule, revealed Jones as a sturdy practitioner of the droning, timeless blues played by so many Mississippi musicians, from Kimbrough and Burnside to John Lee Hooker. Cheerfully accentuating his guitar lines with a wah-wah pedal, and tightly accompanied by the incomparable drummer Sam Carr and guitarists Big Jack Johnson and Kenny Brown, Jones turned whiskery old numbers like Diggin' my Potatoes into what his producer Robert Palmer called "progressive country blues".
By the time Jones came to make his second album, Pucker Up Buttercup, in 1999, Fat Possum was less disposed to let its plain old bluesmen make plain old blues records. Matthew Johnson, the label's owner, was no doubt encouraged by the response to projects like A Ass Pocket Of Whiskey, Burnside's 1996 collaboration with the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - the more so, probably, in that it was generally hated by hardline blues fans, a constituency Johnson says he has no interest in pleasing.
Such listeners were hardly like to be assuaged by Pucker Up Buttercup, with its distorted guitar playing, and when presented with a closing track titled Guess I Done Fucked It All Up were all too likely to agree. Jones did not record again.
ยท Paul 'Wine' Jones, blues musician, born July 1 1946; died October 9 2005
Born: July 1, 1946, Flora, MS
Died: October 9, 2005, Jackson, MS
Record label: Fat Possum Records
Albums: Pucker Up Buttercup, Mule, Stop Arguing Over Me
Genres: Electric blues, Delta blues, Blues
Obituary from "The Guardian" - by Tony Russell
Paul 'Wine' Jones
Blues musician loyal to Mississippi
Tony Russell
Thursday 13 October 2005 19.03 EDT Last modified on Monday 6 October 2014 05.17 EDT
The blues singer and guitarist Paul "Wine" Jones, who has died aged 59, gained a small measure of fame by recording for Fat Possum, an idiosyncratic independent label in Oxford, Mississippi. As well as stage managing the later-life careers of Junior Kimbrough and RL Burnside, Fat Possum has given opportunities to a number of strictly amateur musicians, mostly from rural Mississippi, who had seldom or never recorded before. Some, like T-Model Ford and Asie Payton, moved on to the larger stage of blues festivals, film soundtracks and being written about by Jay McInerney in the New Yorker. Others watched from the wings.
One of them was Jones, a man who rarely left his home in Belzoni, Mississippi, and played mostly for local audiences. He was born in Flora, Mississippi, a small town just off Highway 49, northwest of Jackson. Picking up the rudiments of the guitar from his father, by the time he was in his teens he was playing at house parties, and he later did some work with James "Son" Thomas and the harmonica-player Willie Foster.
Unlike his brother Casey Jones, who went to Chicago and became a well-known blues drummer, playing for several years with Albert Collins, Paul never took music seriously as a career option. Instead, he worked as a farmhand and a welder, and was proud to have bought his own house. By the time Fat Possum heard about him, in the mid-1990s, he was prepared to change his mind. "All the kids are grown up and gone," he said, "and I'm ready to go again."
His first album, Mule, revealed Jones as a sturdy practitioner of the droning, timeless blues played by so many Mississippi musicians, from Kimbrough and Burnside to John Lee Hooker. Cheerfully accentuating his guitar lines with a wah-wah pedal, and tightly accompanied by the incomparable drummer Sam Carr and guitarists Big Jack Johnson and Kenny Brown, Jones turned whiskery old numbers like Diggin' my Potatoes into what his producer Robert Palmer called "progressive country blues".
By the time Jones came to make his second album, Pucker Up Buttercup, in 1999, Fat Possum was less disposed to let its plain old bluesmen make plain old blues records. Matthew Johnson, the label's owner, was no doubt encouraged by the response to projects like A Ass Pocket Of Whiskey, Burnside's 1996 collaboration with the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - the more so, probably, in that it was generally hated by hardline blues fans, a constituency Johnson says he has no interest in pleasing.
Such listeners were hardly like to be assuaged by Pucker Up Buttercup, with its distorted guitar playing, and when presented with a closing track titled Guess I Done Fucked It All Up were all too likely to agree. Jones did not record again.
ยท Paul 'Wine' Jones, blues musician, born July 1 1946; died October 9 2005