Grandpa JONES

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Singer & Musician

AmericanBorn Louis Marshall JONES

American banjo player and "old time" country and gospel music singer

Born on October 20, 1913 in Niagara, Kentucky , United States

Died on February 19, 1998 in Nashville, Tennessee , United States

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Jones was born in the small farming community of Niagara in Henderson County, Kentucky, the youngest of 10 children in a sharecropper's family. His father was an old-time fiddle player, and his mother was a ballad singer and herself adept on the concertina. His first instrument was guitar. Ramona Jones was his wife and one of several women who began to gain some recognition in a musical form long dominated by men and Grandpa's wife and musical partner of over thirty years. Ramona first started playing the mandolin when she was six or seven years old. Jones spent his teenage ...   Jones was born in the small farming community of Niagara in Henderson County, Kentucky, the youngest of 10 children in a sharecropper's family. His father was an old-time fiddle player, and his mother was a ballad singer and herself adept on the concertina. His first instrument was guitar. Ramona Jones was his wife and one of several women who began to gain some recognition in a musical form long dominated by men and Grandpa's wife and musical partner of over thirty years. Ramona first started playing the mandolin when she was six or seven years old. Jones spent his teenage years in Akron, Ohio, where he began singing country music tunes on a radio show on WJW.



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