Little Hat Jones

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Bye Bye Baby Blues 00:00 Tools
Kentucky Blues 00:00 Tools
Little Hat Blues 03:10 Tools
Hurry Blues 03:05 Tools
Rolled From Side To Side Blues 03:04 Tools
New Two Sixteen Blues 02:59 Tools
Cross The Water Blues 00:00 Tools
Cherry Street Blues 00:00 Tools
Two String Blues 00:00 Tools
Corpus Blues 00:00 Tools
07 - Bye Bye Baby Blues 00:00 Tools
Rollin' From Side To Side 00:00 Tools
Bye Bye Baby Blues (From "The One I Love") 03:09 Tools
Rolled From Side To Side Blue 00:00 Tools
Bye Bye Bye Baby Blues 00:00 Tools
Rolled From Side To Side 00:00 Tools
Rwo String Blues 00:00 Tools
Bye Bye Baby Blues _ Little Jo 00:00 Tools
Bye Baby Blues 00:00 Tools
19 bye bye baby blues 00:00 Tools
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George "Little Hat" Jones was born October 5, 1899, in Bowie County, TX - died in Naples, TX, in 1981. He was a well-known street busker in San Antonio in the mid-'20s, and made his first recordings there on June 15, 1929, when he cut "New Two Sixteen Blues" and "Two String Blues" for OKeh Records. At the same session he sat in on guitar for an additional nine tracks by Texas Alexander. OKeh brought Jones back six days later to record four more tunes, which included "Rolled from Side to Side Blues," "Hurry Blues," "Little Hat Blues," and "Corpus Blues," and again a year later, on June 14, 1930, when he tracked "Kentucky Blues" (a wonderfully re-imagined version of "Lost John"), "Bye Bye Baby Blues," "Cross the Water Blues," and "Cherry Street Blues." For whatever reason, Jones never recorded again, leaving behind a legacy of ten songs, plus nine more as a sideman for Texas Alexander. Little Hat Jones' trademark style of starting songs uptempo on guitar, only to slow down when he began singing, was oddly endearing, and he managed, either by accident or design, to turn what would be a distinct handicap for most musicians into a signature and an asset. One of his best songs, "Bye Bye Baby Blues," featured prominently in the soundtrack to the movie Ghost World in 2001. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.