E D D I E   J O N E S
Eddie
'One-String' Jones
date of birth unknown
thought to have been from the Memphis area

date and location of death unknown
discography
E D D I E   J O N E S
source: Portents pts-2 notes

This discography is a non-commercial labor-of-love and is in no way associated with any business firm.
All I know about the resp. artist's / label's musical output is shown on this page. To purchase out-of-print records I recommend an ebay, gemm or google search. And - sorry for that - I have not the time to answer any e-mails asking me about further information, let alone duplicating out-of-print recordings I happen to own.

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Eddie "One-String" Jones LPs / CDs
#year
of release
titlelabel # / notes
11964Eddie "One-String" Jones and Edward Hazelton: One-String Blues
Rural Blues on Skid Row

Portents pts-2 / Takoma B 1023 track sequence:
One-String
- "One-String Three-Quarter Banjo Picker ..."
- Rolling And Tumbling Blues
- Come Back Baby
- I'll Be Your Chauffeur

One-String
- It's Raining Here
- The Dozens
Edward Hazelton
- Mocking The Train, Mocking The Dogs
- Motherless Children Have A Hard Time
- Poor Boy Travelling From Town To Town


Gazell GDCD 6001 / Takoma CDTAK 1023 track sequence:
Eddie "One-String" Jones
- One String Three Quarter Banjo Picker
- Rolling And Tumbling Blues
- Walk With Me Lord [previously unissued]
- Come Back Baby
- John Henry [previously unissued]
- I'll Be Your Chauffeur
- It's Raining Here
- Baby Please Don't Go [previously unissued]
- The Dozens
Edward Hazelton
- Mocking The Train Mocking The Dogs
- Poor Boy Travelling From Town To Town
- Hard Rock Is My Pillow [previously unissued]
- Motherless Children Have A Hard Time
- Throw A Poor Dog A Bone (And How Blind Boy Fuller Learned To Play) [previously unissued]
- Red River Blues [previously unissued]


rec. February 14 (Jones) & March 1 (Hazelton), 1960 in the streets of Los Angeles by Frederick A. Usher with assistance by Richard Barlow and Roderick Usher; edited by Samuel B. Charters; Eddie Jones, voc, 1-str. g; Edward Hazelton, voc, hca

"Eddie 'One String' Jones accompanying himself on a home-made Afrikan derived Zither-Monochord, & 'Poor, Traveling' Edward Hazelton, Blues and Harmonica. Recorded in the Los Angeles Skid Row by Frederick A. Usher"

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Portents pts-2

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= Takoma B 1023 (1968)

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(=) Gazell GDCD 6001 (1993)

notes by John Crosby
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= Takoma CDTAK 1023
(1996)

Takoma discography

21997Essential Blues Guitar

Eddie "One String" Jones
- Baby Please Don't Go
2 CD set
notes by Larry Hoffman

House of Blues
31999Essential Shoebox Full Of Blues

Eddie "One String" Jones
- Baby Please Don't Go
18 CD box set

House of Blues
4200?Takoma Slide

Eddie “One String” Jones
- Rolling And Tumbling Blues
Robert Pete Williams
- Rolling Stone
John Fahey
- Poor Boy
Bukka White
- New Orleans Streamline
Son House
- Preachin’ Blues
Ron Thompson & The Resistors
- T.l. Walkin’
Michael Bloomfield
- At The Cross
Mike Auldridge
- Everybody Slides
Bukka White
- Poor Boy Long Ways From Home
Chris Darrow
- Phoney Baloney
Leo Kottke
- Vaseline Machine Gun
Michael Gulezian
- Goodbye, My Friend
Rev. Robert Wilkins
- O Lord I Want You To Help Me
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Takoma TAKCD-8910-2

Takoma discography

52010One String Blues Masters

One String Sam
- I Need A Hundred Dollars
- My Baby Ooo
Willie Joe Duncan & His Unitar
- Unitar Rock
- Cherokee Dance
Willie Joe with Rene Hall's Orchestra
- Twitchy
Louis Dotson
- Sitting On Top Of The World
Sonny Boy Williams
- How I Learned To Play Guitar
Compton Jones
- Shake Em On Down
Napoleon Strickland
- Key To The Bushes

Eddie "One String" Jones
- One String Three
- Rollin & Tumblin Blues
- Come Back Baby
- I'll Be Your Chauffeur
- It's Raining Here
- The Dozens
- John Henry
- Baby Please Don't Go
One String Sam
- Walk With Me Lord
- I Need A Hundred Dollars
- I Got To Go
Willie Joe Duncan
- Joe Duncan Instrumental
- Unitar - Keep The Beat Goin
- My Time After A While
- Instrumental
- Key of Jimmy Reed
- Talking about Muddy Waters
- Talking about Jimmy Reed



Delta Cat 1001


Additional information appreciated !!!

 

 
Other artists' Tributes to Eddie "One-String" Jones
#year
of release
Artist:
Record Title
label # / notes
12007Real Turds: Negerpunk - A Tribute To Eddie "One-String" Jones

- Negerpunk
- Ain't Got The Time

"High Voltage Organ-A-Go-Go Band" with Tex Dixigas, voc

7 inch 45 rpm

Red Lounge RLR 021
(Ger)

www.redloungerecords.de

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- David Campbell review
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver 2006, p. 279
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, p. 556
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Oliver Kostrinsky for additional info

 

Stefan Wirz


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